ASEAN Foundation 
Request For Quotation 
No: 010/AF/RFQ/2025 

About ASEAN Foundation  

Three decades after ASEAN was established, ASEAN Leaders recognised that there remained inadequate shared of prosperity, ASEAN awareness and contact among people of ASEAN.  It was of this concern that ASEAN Leaders established the ASEAN Foundation during ASEAN's 30th Anniversary Commemorative Summit in Kuala Lumpur Malaysia on 15 December 1997. 

After its establishment, the ASEAN Foundation has been tasked to support ASEAN's community building efforts by promoting greater awareness of the ASEAN identity, human resource development, people-to-people interaction and close collaboration among the business sector, civil society, academia and other stakeholders in ASEAN.  We continue to complement ASEAN priorities and we continuously work hard to strengthen the ASEAN Community. 

Introduction 

Continuing the success of ASEAN Social Enterprise Development Programme (SEDP) Phase 1 until Phase 3 from 2021 to 2024, the ASEAN Foundation – with support from TikTok and SAP – is implementing the ASEAN SEDP 4.0 in 2025 with a goal of empowering social enterprises across the ASEAN region through promoting productivity, technology, innovation, increasing access to finance, enhancing market access and internationalisation, and promoting entrepreneurship and human capital development. Since its inception in 2021, ASEAN SEDP has been empowering 70 social enterprises and 280 social entrepreneurs in Southeast Asia through virtual training and mentorship, seed grants, and business matchmaking, connecting them with investors and ACCMSME-nominated officials. This year, thirty social enterprises – from early to growth stage – across 10 ASEAN Countries and Timor-Leste will be selected to participate in ASEAN SEDP 4.0. 

After completing virtual training and mentorship from June 2025, the social entrepreneurs will attend Regional Workshop in Bangkok, Thailand, either in October or November 2025. To support the goal of enhancing access to finance and policymaking, this Regional Workshop comprises of Business Matchmaking, Networking Dinner, Social Enterprise Sharing Session which will connect the social entrepreneurs with ACCMSME-nominated officials and potential investors, including venture capitals and angel investors. These will serve as an avenue for the social enterprises to foster relationships with ACCMSME officials, which can be a pathway to voice their aspiration to policymaking and showcase their impacts to ASEAN policymakers. In addition, the Regional Workshop also serves as a platform for social enterprises to explore potential collaboration between fellow social enterprises. 

Therefore, ASEAN Foundation is seeking quotations to support the Onsite Regional Workshop of ASEAN SEDP 4.0 as below details; 

Download the tender document here.