STATUS OF SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP IN MARAWI CITY

Presented to
RICHARD S. CELESTE
Department of Entrepreneurial Marketing
College of Business Administration and Accountancy
Mindanao State University
Marawi City

In Partial Fulfillment
of the Requirements for the Course
Entrep 198 - Dd (Project Identification and Evaluation)
First semester 2018-2019

by

GEAH MAE Y. CENAS

October 19, 2018

 INTRODUCTION

Social enterprises are Entrepreneurial Organizations with the core principle of

creating social innovation. It is globally known engaging profit activities and has huge

impact on uplifting life quality of vulnerable and marginalize community. it is

considered as social or welfare programs for it is establish through foundations,

corporate social responsibility, and government funding or civil society and

international donors (Philippine Institute for Development studies, 2017).It has

existed for many centuries and have gained prominence in the western economies in

1970’s (Poon 2011). In the Philippines context, Social Entrepreneurship is known

building profit/non-profit organization and create social value, its main role in

rehabilitating Marawi City primarily donating goods, commodities, and services to the

poor. Some Organizations provides financial support to the Maranaos who wants to

recover their business.

There are types of social entrepreneurships identified that might be proven existed in

Marawi City at present which will be discussed and specifically elaborated on the

latter part of this paper, these are Community projects, Non-Profit Organizations,

Cooperatives, Social Enterprises, and Social Purpose Organizations. Each of them has

important role on contributing the Status of Social Entrepreneurship in Marawi City

which the main focus to be determine in this study. Governments and other

organizations already conducted planning of different service programs and started

rehabilitating Marawi, there are also other organizations offer financial supports and

donations to Marawi war victims that plays role inside Marawi social

entrepreneurship status which is not fully determined yet.

The goal in conducting this study is to give readers correct information about the

aforementioned topic. These study also tries to figure out the reasons and factors

affecting the current status, through gathering informations on books, social media

articles, pages, news, etc. And conducting personal interviews and surveys of the

involved respondents.

Background of the study

Marawi City, Lanao Del Sur is the “ Only Islamic City in the Philippines” was

called before as Dansalan and was the capital of the province of Lanao Del Sur. The

economy of the City is largely based on agriculture of rice and corn, and exporting of

various crafts among many things. They also manufacture hollow-blocks, goldsmith,

and blacksmithing. The possible businesses to be establish in Marawi City are rubber

processing, Marawi hotels, exporting of halal foods, cold storage facilities,

oleo-chemical products, processed foods and apparel, jewelry such as pearls and cloth

weaving. (https://philippinescities.com/marawi-city-lanao-del-sur-/)

Tragic history of war in Marawi City drawn out traumatic image on its home, culture

and people especially children.”War have destroyed huge part of Marawi where the

Central District become the main battle area for 153 days which main bulk of

commercial, educational, health religious, cultural infrastructure and facilities, and big

number of huge concrete residential buildings established. Cost of destruction

estimated 50 billion pesos”. (News.mb.com.ph).

 Most of them especially the IDP’s needs financial support from the Governments

and other organizations. Social Entrepreneurs as agents of change often see this as an

opportunity to Adopt business solutions to social problems where social

entrepreneurship begins “ being define as the process of pursuing innovative solutions

to address social, environmental and economic problems in a variety of ways”

(seethechange.ca).
 Statement of the problem

This study aims to determine the Status of Social Entrepreneurship in Marawi City, to

determine and compare status of its past and present especially where most businesses

destroyed by war, it also aims to to know what are the Governments actions and

programs towards these, and to identify other private organizations who participated

in the rehabilitation of Marawi which contributed big factor on Marawi’s Social

Entrepreneurship. The problem also aimed to answer the following questions:

1. What are the factors affecting the Status of Social Entrepreneurship in Marawi

City?

2. What are the government actions and programs and how it contributes to its

present status?

3. How Social Entrepreneurship affects the Marawi community in terms of its

economy and social well-being?

4. Importance of Social Entrepreneurship in Marawi City.

5. How social entrepreneurship contributes to the well being of Marawi people

especially the IDP’s.

6. What type of social enterprises greatly contribute social upliftment of Marawi

city?

7. Who are those social entrepreneurs engage in rehabilitating Marawi City?

8. How Marawi Citizens react towards present social entrepreneurship in terms of

its importance, community involvement, business ventures and activities, and

social responsibility.
 CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK

Independent Dependent
Variable Variable

Entrepreneurs Characteristics Organizational Assessment

 Owner/founder  Firm performance
 Age  Value of creation(For
 hometown profits,Non-profit)
 Gender  Firms Community
 Civil status involvement
 Citizenship  Firm Status
 Field of expertise  Process of operation
 Government intervention
Organizations Characteristics  Social responsibility
 Organizations name  Employees performance
 Location  Organizations
 Period of existence environment
 Monthly & annual earning
 Social Accomplishments
 Type of business ventured
 Organizations goals/objectives

Figure 1. Conceptual framework of the study

SIGNIFICANCE OF THE STUDY

This study focuses on the status of Social Entrepreneurs in Marawi City. It is

important to tackle this issue to compare the differences and gaps on Social

Entrepreneurial Status of its past and present. The following are the ones that will be

benefited on this study.

Marawi people in this study they will know the status of their social enterprises and

the determinant factors affecting it. Being a citizen of Marawi City it is their concern

to know about this issues.

Students who wants to know about the current status of Marawi City especially after

the siege and might conduct research relating about this topic.

Business establishments that exist in Marawi City since they are also venturing

business, it is their concern to know the factors and status of business around them.

Business persons wishes to venture social enterprises in Marawi City, they must

know the status of the place where they establish their business. They might conduct

research to determine the factors which could affect their business in the future.

Other researchers who might conduct a study and research about Marawi relating

this topic.

LIMITATIONS OF THE STUDY

This study focuses on Status of Social Entrepreneurship in Marawi City and the

contributing factor of the said topic. Social Enterprises and other types of social

purpose Organizations that are ventured, which can be a major determinant factor on

the obtained result at the end of the study. Furthermore this also include on both

non-profit and for profit (Government and Private Organization) social enterprises

that have caused impacts on the community’s well-being. Other types of business /

Organizations present in Marawi City is not included in this study.

 DEFINITION OF TERMS

Social Entrepreneur is a person who pursues novel applications that have the

potential to solve community-based problems. They are the one who is willing to take

risk and effort to come up with positive changes in society through their initiative.

They can be considered as agent of change.

Social Entrepreneurship is a process of social value creation in which resources are

combined in new ways to meet social needs, stimulate social change, or create new

organizations.

Social Enterprise an organization that applies commercial strategies to maximize

improvements in financial, social and environmental well-being.

Value of creation it is a manner why business is created for. The intention why the

Organization was formed.

Firm characteristics affects the firm performance towards social aspects and on

Organization financial performance.

Employees they are people employed to work for an organization to do a specific job.

Residence are people living in the community of Marawi.

Managers are the one who takes control or manages the firm or an organization.