Deadline: 1-Dec-21
Are you a policymaker, researcher, intermediary, or specialist working on the key topics of the Policy Labs? If yes, then SEED invites you to join them to explore policy best practices, share your expertise and participate in co-creation of policy adaptation for your country.
The Global Opportunities for Sustainable Development Goals (GO4SDGs) & SEED Regional Practitioner Labs for Policy Prototyping (Policy Labs) showcase break-through replicable policies and policy programmes.
The Labs stimulate the development of innovative policy instruments that create enabling environments for green and social impact enterprises. The process facilitates the replication and adaptation of nationally designed & tested policy solutions in the region, based on the theory of change that replication is an effective and efficient way to solve similar problems across geographies. Stakeholders in the policymaking process are engaged through design-thinking tools that facilitate the synthesising of elements and conditions critical for replication and adaptation.
This Lab will explore national policy solutions in circularity benefiting MSMEs. It will focus on policy examples enabling the contributions of MSMEs in circular economy transition in single-use plastic reduction and textile sustainability.
Objectives
- Deepen understanding of SDG relevant policy challenges faced by green and social micro-small and medium enterprises
- Share national policy instruments to fuel green and social entrepreneurship as well as circular economies regionally
- Offer design thinking tools that encourage cross-sharing, localisation and up-take of proven policy instruments in other countries
- Facilitate collaboration and networking opportunities
- Share outcomes from policy labs to other GO4SDG stakeholders to learn, build and scale green economy relevant solutions
Why Replication?
- Shortens consultation cycles and saves internal resources
- Minimises political downside if solution is not working
- Provides ideas & minimises risks for policymakers in other countries
- Encourages knowledge transfer & peer learning
Who does SEED engage?
- Policy Champions: Ministries and departments, agencies, development organisations, intermediaries who developed relevant and proven policy solutions and might be keen to share them regionally.
- Enterprises: Green & social enterprises as users to ensure correct targeting and relevance in replicated concepts
- Policy Actor Replicators: Policymakers or other actors keen to replicate tried and tested policy solutions locally. Those interested in understanding in adaptation strategies and find replication drivers and partners critical in replication.
For more information, visit https://seed.uno/articles/events/go4sdgs-seed-regional-policy-labs