organizations such as ours, the Schwab Foundation The report highlights the power of such data and and Bertelsmann Stiftung, began to support social calls on governments, international organizations enterprises, the ecosystem was barely emerging, and the social enterprise ecosystem to invest in the knowledge base was brittle, and the relevant and coordinate for a strong data infrastructure at a da. [...] The Global State of Social Enterprise report 2024 – Contribution of social enterprise to the United presents a review and synthesis of the available Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) data on social enterprise across the world, gathered from 2013–2023 in 80-plus countries – Barriers faced by social enterprise that are home to 83% of the global population. [...] – Number of jobs created by social enterprise These challenges include: the availability and quality of data, as data on social enterprise is available – Financing requirements of social enterprise only in 80-plus countries; the comparability of the available data, as research initiatives vary in scope – Leadership of social enterprise and timings; and difficulties with quantifying social and envi. [...] Challenges include investors to improve the enabling conditions for the availability and quality of data, the comparability social enterprises and drive positive change. 3.1 Challenges with availability and quality of data The first challenge is with the availability and social enterprise is entirely lacking or not available quality of data on social enterprise. [...] the British Council notes: “Of course, each country The State of Social Enterprise: A Review of Global Data 2013–2023 21 3.3 Challenges with data on social and environmental impact The third issue is that there are significant of organisations operating in the private sector, challenges in terms of accounting for the social and standard measuring tools, such as growth of environmental value creati.
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