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Social Entrepreneurs, Laurinda Seabra, a Portuguese Citizen and Joe Stokes a South African citizen, in 2004 started Empowerment Gateway as a social-economic organisation.
Empowerment Gateway is an emerging international consulting support organisation that focuses on the development of programmes aimed at reducing unemployment and poverty, social enterprise development, and the promotion of human rights.
It is structured as a hybrid organisation with ownership and control being replaced by custodianship and leadership.
The organisation is headquartered in Portugal but has a fully-fledged operation in South Africa.
South Africa was selected as the appropriate location to carry out the group’s initial Research and Development phase and to rollout and test the implementation models and frameworks using a Social-Economic Franchise model.
The group follows an integrated model, that includes components from the 4th Economic Sector Model, the Blended Values Framework and the Social Responsibility principles embedded in the UN Global Compact, GRI indicators, the UN MDGs (Millennium Development Goals), 4th Sector Network, The Blended Values Organisation, Sigma Protocol, the developing ISO 26000 and various other international CSR methodologies.
Empowerment Gateway also functions as an IO (Intermediary Organisation) and facilitates multistakeholder linkages.
Empowerment Gateway is a For-benefit (For-profit integrated with Not-for-profit) where the “benefit-to-all-stakeholders” focus of the group’s financial performance, results in achieving positive impact at all levels of the economy, through the holistic distribution of bottom-line earnings to
pre-identified beneficiaries and adherence to international sustainability standards.
www.empowerment-gateway.com
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