11. Social Entrepreneurship and Disaster Risk Reduction—A Case of India

The Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015–30 has stressed on public and private investments for empowering the social, economic and cultural resilience of the communities, and suggests that these investments could be the driver of innovation, growth, and job creation. Social entrepreneurship is an emerging field with over 40 million global workforces and holding significant shares in the gross domestic product of countries such as the United Kingdom and France. Despite growing popularity, Social Entrepreneurship is still new in disaster risk reduction. This chapter attempts to provide key learning on social enterprises, its characteristics, from literature study. The authors have undertaken a systematic review of key pieces of literature to promote a conceptual framework. Further, the authors have applied the framework on selected case studies from India in disaster management to derive key insights for social entrepreneurship. The outcome of the study is to derive effective instrument for characterization of social entrepreneurship, and to promote a way forward.