Our model
A human approach to achieve sustainable and inclusive development impact with an entrepreneurial, innovative and collaborative spirit.
Our Pillars
We have created a model based on pillars that support our mission, services and projects in line with our principles and values to achieve, and help others achieve, sustainable and inclusive development impact.
Our pillars are:
- Impact thinking
- World Entrepreneurs’ Network
- Dialogue and Communication
Impact Thinking
Impact starts with design. We focus on impact to achieve sustainable results.
We follow a human and results approach to help design, manage and mobilize support for sustainable development initiatives and impact-driven projects that contribute to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
Our method helps:
- design projects in an entrepreneurial, innovative and collaborative manner to create a long-lasting sustainable development impact.
- integrate the most adequate management model to implement our projects and monitor our results and sustainable development impact; and
- set a culture of impact iteration, knowledge, communication and trust-building to engage new partners and scale transformative change.
WeNet
World Entrepreneurs’ Network
WeNet is our open cooperation network for like-minded people, organizations and communities from different countries and sectors. It aims to integrate our community of local and global members and partners, enabling us to:
- team up with key partners, collaborators and experts that can facilitate their expertise, services and solutions in key sectors and themes in support of our shared goals, activities and projects;
- communicate and cooperate for the mobilization of our collective knowledge, wisdom, resources and means in an integrated manner; and
- create a purpose-driven ecosystem, so more people, organizations and communities work together for a sustainable, human and equitable World.
Dialogue and Communication
Multi-sector, inter-disciplinary, multi-cultural and inter-generational dialogue and communication, at the local and global level, are powerful tools to foster cooperation, share knowledge and think out the box for the successful development of high impact projects, management practices, entrepreneurial initiatives, innovation and fair collaborative partnerships for a sustainable and inclusive future, together.
We engage in dialogue and communication activities, including through discussion panels, forums, expert meetings, webinars, podcasts and social media to support this purpose, fulfill our mission and raise the visibility of the people, organizations and communities taking action to lead, impact and inspire change, locally and globally.
Dialogue
Our Approach
The right to development is a fundamental human right, which starts with the empowerment of people to lead change for a better World, here and now.
“To transform our World, we do not need to accomplish great feats or to be endowed with great or special talents and skills. We only need to take action and make things happen to improve the state of the World around us, with what we have and where we are, with our creative and universal entrepreneurial spirit. As the United Nations reminds us, our Planet faces a series of common global challenges that affect every country, every territory, every community and every individual in different ways and degrees. Transforming our World requires that people act in an entrepreneurial and creative manner to generate ideas, initiatives and innovative solutions that adjust to our different realities and needs locally, improving lives and caring for our nature. Moreover, it requires us, People, to collaborate so we can scale our impact globally through our collective effort, thus becoming real World Entrepreneurs.”
– Leticia Gennes, Founder of World Entrepreneurs, Session 385, United Nations WSIS Forum 2020.
“Human Diversity is the Strength of our Future, together”
At World Entrepreneurs, we believe that our entrepreneurial spirit is the innate human ability to create and transform ideas – as diverse as our humanity – into a reality that can lead change in an innovative and creative manner for the benefit of our families, communities, societies, economies and our planet. Moreover, we believe that this change can be catalyzed and scaled globally through our collective effort, enabling the transformation we all cherish to achieve a more sustainable, human and equitable World.
We believe that, to build communities, nations and societies that are more inclusive, innovative, sustainable, happy and resilient, we need to foster our universal entrepreneurial spirit and support world entrepreneurs as the people, organizations and communities leading and inspiring change for a better and fair World, beyond their nature, sector and scope.
To do so, we need stronger support organizations and networks that can articulate purpose-driven ecosystems with and around these world entrepreneurs to inspire their ideas and actions, to accompany them in their journey and to connect them to scale their impact. These support organizations and networks are key in building new impact economies and societies, where more people, organizations and communities from different countries, sectors and disciplines can be permanently connected, interconnected and equipped to address our World’s most pressing challenges; co-creating new international cooperation paradigms, more human and horizontal, to accelerate our progress towards a sustainable, inclusive and innovation-led growth for All.
“Inspiring a Human Model for Cooperation”
In the spirit of diversity and togetherness, World Entrepreneurs promotes the creation of new cooperation models that are inspired by the following key elements of sustainable leadership and management to help people, organizations and communities build a better and fair World, together.
- Purpose: contributing to create a shared prosperity, a healthy planet and inclusive and happy societies through our projects, solutions and initiatives, setting objectives, principles, values and strategies that are ethical and sustainable, and targeting the empowerment of all people, organizations and communities involved.
- Human empowerment: empowering people to become agents of change, building human, technical, organizational and digital capacities, skills, knowledge and behaviors to develop, lead and support initiatives and solutions that transform our World with an entrepreneurial, innovative and collaborative spirit.
- Collective effort and leadership: foster fair, equitable and purpose-driven collaborative models, based on trust, empathy and shared value to co-create, experiment and learn new solutions that improve the status of the world around us in an inclusive and participative manner.
- Networks: build networks of people, organizations and communities from different countries, sectors and disciplines to articulate multiple purpose-driven ecosystems enabling communication and cooperation.
- Transformative innovation: foster technology, frugality and innovation to mobilize and democratize access to collective knowledge, data, wisdom, resources and solutions that improve people’s lives in an effective, efficient and inclusive manner.
- Managing for sustainable development impact: set the most adequate results-oriented management and organizational structure, enabling diversity and inclusiveness, good and clear governance, effective communication and a culture of impact to learn, share knowledge, build trust and collaborate for a long-lasting transformative change.
Our Objectives and the SDGs
World Entrepreneurs aims to contribute to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) as follows:
- Our Goal:
Contributing, and helping others contribute, to the Sustainable Development Goals, locally and globally, according to their universal and integrated nature, and adjusted to the different realities and needs.
- Our Priority:
We target inclusive, equitable and sustainable growth:
- Focusing on priority sectors locally
- Boosting entrepreneurship and innovation
- Caring for our biodiversity, culture expressions and peace
- Empowering women, the youth, the elders and diversity groups
- Our Strategy:
- Generating purpose-driven partnerships and networks
- Building capacities to contribute the SDGs at all levels
- Promoting a more human and results management approach to generate sustainable and inclusive development impact
To achieve our SDGs objectives, we work with different projects, initiatives and organizations, helping set objectives that are aligned with the SDGs and the five dimensions of sustainable development, while respecting the needs and priorities of the territories, stakeholders and people involved.
We help development and impact driven projects and initiatives to contribute to:
- Generate a shared prosperity (SDG 8, 9)
- Boosting innovation and entrepreneurship as means to contribute to sustainable and inclusive economic growth.
- Improve people’s lives (SDG 4, 5, 10)
- Promoting education to empower people to contribute to the SDGs at all levels
- Promoting diversity and inclusiveness, the empowerment of women, the youth, the elders and the respect for cultural expressions and peace.
- Care for the planet (SDG 12)
- Engaging with the sustainable and regenerative use of natural resources, the respect for our biodiversity, ecosystems and natural world.
- Apply good governance and management (SDG 16)
- Setting a results approach that strengthen the credibility and capacity of organizations to deliver sustainable and inclusive development impact.
- Develop collaborative models and networks (SDG 17)
- Generating partnerships for the sustainability and long-lasting impact of the initiatives