Development of Social Business and Poverty Alleviation in Sri Lanka: A Study on Technical Cooperation of Japan

日本在其基层技术合作下，通过斯里兰卡农村人民的能力建设，支持社会企业。这项研究通过分析对农村贫困人口的影响及其带来的挑战，调查了这种SBS的有效性。日本志愿者促进了农村妇女利用自己的资源天赋生产面向市场的产品的能力建设。由于改善了当地和国外市场的准入，这导致村民的收入增加。人力资源开发；企业家的集体行为；与其他组织的联系；财政/物质收益；改进国企维持的小额融资系统；改进使用的技术是通过国企建立的能力。依赖综合症、缺乏管理知识、市场不稳定、日本志愿人员回国后无法维持对项目的独立管理是这些SBS的主要挑战。

Japan, under its grassroots technical cooperation has supported Social Businesses through capacity building of rural people in Sri Lanka. This study investigated the effectiveness of such SBs by analysing their impact on rural poor and the challenges they posed.Japanese volunteers facilitated capacity building of rural women to produce market-oriented products using their own resource endowments. This resulted in a higher income for villagers due to improved access to local and foreign markets. Human resource development; collective behaviour of entrepreneurs; networking with other organizations; financial/ material gains; improvement of micro financing systems maintained by the SBs; improvement of technology used were the capacities built through SBs. The dependency syndrome; lack of management know-how; instability of the market; inability to sustain independent management of the project upon the return of Japanese volunteers were major challenges of these SBs.