FPA’s SEAP project wins again at NPME 2024

FPA Sri Lanka’s Social Enterprise Acceleration Programme (SEAP) project has won for the second consecutive year at the National Project Management Excellence Awards (NPME 2024), held recently at Galadari Hotel, Colombo. 

In 2015, IPPF launched the SEAP to empower the International Planned Parenthood Federation member associations (MAs) with entrepreneurial best practices in the health sector, delivering social impact and improving lives. The SEAP aims to establish and grow social enterprises, diversifying funding sources and ensuring sustainability.

Since 2018, FPA Sri Lanka has been functioning as the Social Enterprise Hub (SE Hub), ensuring the successful implementation of the SEAP. The programme fosters a ‘community of practice’, enabling MAs to share best practices and lessons learned. The SEAP includes MA-to-MA knowledge sharing, mutual support, capacity building, assistance in establishing revenue-generating business models and providing technical assistance to transform income-generating activities into social enterprises. It also promotes impact-driven social enterprises.
At NPME 2024, under the Best Managed Project in Social Enterprise Sector (local and international) category, the SEAP project emerged as the Silver award winner. The award recognised our initiatives in supporting 12 IPPF MAs in social enterprise-related market research for 2022/2023/2024. The SE Hub also developed a custom Market Research Framework, featuring globally recommended best practices and industry-standard analytical tools for IPPF Social Enterprises.

These prestigious awards are organised by the Project Management Institute (PMI) Sri Lanka Chapter, the official charter of the Global Project Management Institute, USA. PMI is the world’s leading professional association for project, programme and portfolio management.

This recognition further strengthens social enterprises across the federation, manage the programme more robustly and deliver even more effective results.