Experiential Project Outputs

Throughout July 2017, GIFT ASEAN will bring together young leaders from across Malaysia to take part in the first ever Malaysia Young Leaders Programme. 

In the first module, which finished on July 8th, participants took part in candid discussions about the trends shaping Malaysia's future, learned from the insights of prominent Malaysian guest speakers, and tried to craft a new narrative on Malaysia, ASEAN, and the world.

May-June 2017

The International Labour Organisation estimates that more than 450 million people –one-fifth of the global workforce –work in supply-chain related jobs. For many workers access to essential healthcare products and services for them and their families remains inadequate and can often be a financial burden.

Participants on the 2017 Vietnam Global Leaders Programme worked with social enterprise iCare Benefits (iCB) to examine the business opportunities and challenges related to the provision of healthcare and well-being products and services to factory workers and their families. 

February-March 2017

India's housing shortage is massive. 43 million units are needed in rural areas alone — a number that is expected to double by 2022.

Participants on the 2017 India Global Leaders Programme — GIFT's 50th since the GLP started in 2008 — travelled to Tamil Nadu to conduct a programme in affordable housing finance, helping to provide financing for rural Indians trying to build and improve their homes. Working with Swarna Pragati Housing Microfinance, a pioneer in the use of social collateral in housing loans, global executives developed recommendations that strengthen and expand housing finance across India.

November-December 2016

Cambodia’s agricultural industry faces a number of pressing challenges. The rice sector is no exception.

Cambodia’s rice has gained international recognition in recent years, but the sector still needs to overcome several problems to realise its full potential and ensure its long-term growth. With challenges come tremendous opportunities: there is a pressing need for a scalable approach to sustainable agriculture that strengthens the rice sector and improves the livelihoods of farmers. 

Participants on GIFT's Global Leaders Programme proposed strategic recommendations on how to strengthen Cambodia's rice value chain through a the developing of a "farmer-centric" contract farming business.

September 2016

Following the success of its inaugural Young Leaders Programme in Hong Kong in 2015, GIFT ran the second edition of the programme in collaboration with the Hong Kong Countryside Foundation.

Twenty one young professionals and managers from business, government and civil society took part in the YLP, GIFT’s professional platform for tri-partite engagement and collaboration around some of Hong Kong’s most topical issues, i.e. land use, culture and heritage, and connections between urban and rural Hong Kong.

July 2016

With the world's population expected to exceed 9.1 billion by 2050, massive strain will be put on the global food supply chain. Feeding a growing global population will require a multi-faceted approach which takes into account ecological and natural resource limits, safety and quality of produce, social challenges and rural livelihoods.

GIFT’s 47th Global Leaders Programme (GLP) included a field project in Changchun, Jilin Province, China. Twenty business executives from nine different countries took part in GIFT’s flagship two-week programme to apply their leadership skills towards a project focused on community based Natural Farming, a socially and ecologically sound alternative to large-scale industrial farming operations.