About SEEP

The SEEP Network is a nonprofit network of over 120 international organizations that believe in the power of enterprise to reduce global poverty. SEEP members connect in a global learning community to increase their impact in over 170 countries, where they collectively serve over 89 million microentrepreneurs and their families. Through SEEP’s learning initiatives, enterprise development practitioners co-create and exchange strategies, standards, and tools for building healthy economies with a sustainable income in every household.

WE ARE...

Member Driven

SEEP members govern the network and drive its agenda. Through open and frequent communication, SEEP strives to understand and respond to member interests.

Practitioner-Based

SEEP gathers the experience of practitioners in an inclusive, neutral space for sharing and developing knowledge, and disseminates this knowledge broadly to advance microenterprise practice. SEEP itself aspires to learn from its own and others’ experiences to provide the best services possible.

Innovative

SEEP aims to be creative and inventive in its own initiatives and services, and to motivate its members to do likewise for themselves and their programs. Only by searching for new solutions and refining what is already known can we together overcome the challenge of eradicating poverty.

Sustainable

The needs of poor households dwarf donor resources. Demand-driven services must cover delivery costs to allow for scalability. As practitioners succeed in creating or facilitating sustainable processes and institutions, so too must their supporting networks.

Transparent

SEEP strives for full transparency in its own operations and in the services its members provide to microentrepreneurs. SEEP is open and honest about its experiences and those captured in learning initiatives.