ANTHILL
ANTHILL Fabric Gallery
(
Private sector
)
#SDGAction58040
Description
ANTHILL (Alternative Nest for Trading or Training Hub for Indigenous/Ingenious Little Livelihood Seekers) is a social and cultural enterprise dedicated to preserving Philippine weaving and craft traditions while creating sustainable livelihood opportunities for artisan communities. Through its Community Enterprise Development Program, ANTHILL empowers partner communities by providing capacity-building support focused on business skills development, financial literacy, product innovation, and market access. The goal is to nurture self-reliant, resilient craft enterprises that thrive both culturally and economically. ANTHILL applies Philippine textiles in contemporary and circular design. The business models a circular economy by upcycling fabric scraps, practicing zero-waste production, and collaborating with like-minded organizations to address environmental challenges. Through storytelling, education, and conscious consumerism, ANTHILL invites its community to celebrate Filipino identity and craftsmanship, weaving together tradition, sustainability, and impact.
ANTHILL serves as an enabler or incubator supporting 20 artisan communities across the Philippines among urban, rural, and Indigenous sectors. 5 of which are ANTHILL's direct partners where their capacity-building programs are implemented and where interventions are focused. Through proper leadership and governance structures, it works in business partnership with the community enterprises that supply ANTHILL raw materials that they in turn transform into finished goods in collaboration with designers that are then sold in both direct to consumer and business to business channels.
In our commitment to provide sustainable livelihood and create positive impact, ANTHILL institutes its Community Enterprise Development Program, a community and culture based modular coursework facilitated informally through dialogue and workshops among our direct partners. The program is comprised of the following courses:
CULTURAL APPRECIATION
We build a culture of gratitude and pride among our communities and establish a business partnership that is founded on shared values and the vision to preserve our weaving culture.
PRODUCT DESIGN AND INNOVATION
We conduct knowledge and skill sharing and encourage co-creation among our Design Collaborators and Artisans to continuously explore design and innovations that go beyond market trends.
BUSINESS SKILLS TRANSFER
We support in professionalising business by transferring basic financial recording and business management skills among enterprise partner communities. This is to ensure fair wages, and consistent supply and quality output.
MASTER AND APPRENTICE PROGRAM
We incentivise our Master Weavers and Crafters and augment their income by 20%, with the condition that they train an apprentice among the younger generation who will carry on their craft.
FINANCIAL LITERACY AND SAVINGS PROGRAM
We provide life and health insurance and access to education, home improvement, and enterprise loans through our microfinance institution partner. We equip our partners with knowledge and suitable support on financial literacy for long-term economic stability.
At ANTHILL, providing sustainable livelihood for our partner communities is at the core of our impact work. We are highly invested in the equal growth of our partners and stakeholders. We work on ensuring a better quality of life and income security for our artisan partners by providing enabling environments that will grow their entrepreneurial skills and mindset so they can become self reliant and run their businesses independently.
ANTHILL works on a human and community-centered ecosystem business model that ensures a sustainable and inclusive supply chain. We recognize the valuable roles of our stakeholders in keeping our local weaving industry alive. These stakeholders are the young weavers who honor weaving as cultural inheritance, young designers who risk experimenting with weaves despite its limitations, production partners whose industry and skills are also at risk, and our weave wearers who proudly wear our tribe with pride. ANTHILL is in the business of value creation ensuring that we work to improve the quality of life and well being or artisans in the supply chain through fair wages and elevate the worth of their products and processes through innovation and design to maximise impact.
We measure the following
Impact Metrics: social impact: # of artisans supported
Financial Impact: level of income and savings
Cultural Impact: ratio of young and old weavers
Environmental Impact: #kilos textile waste upcycled
We facilitate this through an impact tracker and support this by annual qualitative testimonials
Vital Voices, Miller Center for Social Entrepreneurship, Swedish Institute Management Program, Angels of Impact Network, Maybank Foundation, Asia Society Philippines, ASEAN Impact, Good Design Awards, Go Negosyo Philippines, Department of Trade and Industry, Australian Embassy in the Philippines, Sweden Embassy in the Philippines, US Embassy in the Philippines, Philippine Textile Research Institute, Global Shapers Philippines, Rotary Club International, Siklab Awards, Philippine Investment Management- De La Salle University Center for Business and Society, Artefino Market Fair, Spark Project, She Talks Asia, local non- government agencies, partner artisan cooperatives, etc.
SDGS & Targets
Goal 5
Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls
5.1
End all forms of discrimination against all women and girls everywhere
5.1.1
Whether or not legal frameworks are in place to promote, enforce and monitor equality and non‑discrimination on the basis of sex
5.2
5.2.1
Proportion of ever-partnered women and girls aged 15 years and older subjected to physical, sexual or psychological violence by a current or former intimate partner in the previous 12 months, by form of violence and by age
5.2.2
Proportion of women and girls aged 15 years and older subjected to sexual violence by persons other than an intimate partner in the previous 12 months, by age and place of occurrence
5.3
5.3.1
Proportion of women aged 20-24 years who were married or in a union before age 15 and before age 18
5.3.2
Proportion of girls and women aged 15-49 years who have undergone female genital mutilation/cutting, by age
5.4
Recognize and value unpaid care and domestic work through the provision of public services, infrastructure and social protection policies and the promotion of shared responsibility within the household and the family as nationally appropriate
5.4.1
Proportion of time spent on unpaid domestic and care work, by sex, age and location
5.5
Ensure women’s full and effective participation and equal opportunities for leadership at all levels of decision-making in political, economic and public life
5.5.1
Proportion of seats held by women in (a) national parliaments and (b) local governments
5.5.2
Proportion of women in managerial positions
5.6
Ensure universal access to sexual and reproductive health and reproductive rights as agreed in accordance with the Programme of Action of the International Conference on Population and Development and the Beijing Platform for Action and the outcome documents of their review conferences
5.6.1
Proportion of women aged 15-49 years who make their own informed decisions regarding sexual relations, contraceptive use and reproductive health care
5.6.2
Number of countries with laws and regulations that guarantee full and equal access to women and men aged 15 years and older to sexual and reproductive health care, information and education
5.a
Undertake reforms to give women equal rights to economic resources, as well as access to ownership and control over land and other forms of property, financial services, inheritance and natural resources, in accordance with national laws
5.a.1
(a) Proportion of total agricultural population with ownership or secure rights over agricultural land, by sex; and (b) share of women among owners or rights-bearers of agricultural land, by type of tenure
5.a.2
Proportion of countries where the legal framework (including customary law) guarantees women’s equal rights to land ownership and/or control
5.b
5.b.1
Proportion of individuals who own a mobile telephone, by sex
5.c
Adopt and strengthen sound policies and enforceable legislation for the promotion of gender equality and the empowerment of all women and girls at all levels
5.c.1
Proportion of countries with systems to track and make public allocations for gender equality and women’s empowerment
Goal 8
Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all
8.1
8.1.1
Annual growth rate of real GDP per capita
8.2
Achieve higher levels of economic productivity through diversification, technological upgrading and innovation, including through a focus on high-value added and labour-intensive sectors
8.2.1
Annual growth rate of real GDP per employed person
8.3
Promote development-oriented policies that support productive activities, decent job creation, entrepreneurship, creativity and innovation, and encourage the formalization and growth of micro-, small- and medium-sized enterprises, including through access to financial services
8.3.1
Proportion of informal employment in total employment, by sector and sex
8.4
Improve progressively, through 2030, global resource efficiency in consumption and production and endeavour to decouple economic growth from environmental degradation, in accordance with the 10-Year Framework of Programmes on Sustainable Consumption and Production, with developed countries taking the lead
8.4.1
Material footprint, material footprint per capita, and material footprint per GDP
8.4.2
Domestic material consumption, domestic material consumption per capita, and domestic material consumption per GDP
8.5
8.5.1
Average hourly earnings of female and male employees, by occupation, age and persons with disabilities
8.5.2
Unemployment rate, by sex, age and persons with disabilities
8.6
8.6.1
Proportion of youth (aged 15-24 years) not in education, employment or training
8.7
Take immediate and effective measures to eradicate forced labour, end modern slavery and human trafficking and secure the prohibition and elimination of the worst forms of child labour, including recruitment and use of child soldiers, and by 2025 end child labour in all its forms
8.7.1
Proportion and number of children aged 5‑17 years engaged in child labour, by sex and age
8.8
Protect labour rights and promote safe and secure working environments for all workers, including migrant workers, in particular women migrants, and those in precarious employment
8.8.1
Fatal and non-fatal occupational injuries per 100,000 workers, by sex and migrant status
8.8.2
Level of national compliance with labour rights (freedom of association and collective bargaining) based on International Labour Organization (ILO) textual sources and national legislation, by sex and migrant status
8.9
By 2030, devise and implement policies to promote sustainable tourism that creates jobs and promotes local culture and products
8.9.1
Tourism direct GDP as a proportion of total GDP and in growth rate
8.10
Strengthen the capacity of domestic financial institutions to encourage and expand access to banking, insurance and financial services for all
8.10.1
(a) Number of commercial bank branches per 100,000 adults and (b) number of automated teller machines (ATMs) per 100,000 adults
8.10.2
Proportion of adults (15 years and older) with an account at a bank or other financial institution or with a mobile-money-service provider
8.a
8.a.1
Aid for Trade commitments and disbursements
8.b
By 2020, develop and operationalize a global strategy for youth employment and implement the Global Jobs Pact of the International Labour Organization
8.b.1
Existence of a developed and operationalized national strategy for youth employment, as a distinct strategy or as part of a national employment strategy
Goal 9
Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation
9.1
9.1.1
Proportion of the rural population who live within 2 km of an all-season road
9.1.2
Passenger and freight volumes, by mode of transport
9.2
Promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and, by 2030, significantly raise industry’s share of employment and gross domestic product, in line with national circumstances, and double its share in least developed countries
9.2.1
Manufacturing value added as a proportion of GDP and per capita
9.2.2
Manufacturing employment as a proportion of total employment
9.3
9.3.1
Proportion of small-scale industries in total industry value added
9.3.2
Proportion of small-scale industries with a loan or line of credit
9.4
By 2030, upgrade infrastructure and retrofit industries to make them sustainable, with increased resource-use efficiency and greater adoption of clean and environmentally sound technologies and industrial processes, with all countries taking action in accordance with their respective capabilities
9.4.1
CO2 emission per unit of value added
9.5
9.5.1
Research and development expenditure as a proportion of GDP
9.5.2
Researchers (in full-time equivalent) per million inhabitants
9.a
9.a.1
Total official international support (official development assistance plus other official flows) to infrastructure
9.b
9.b.1
Proportion of medium and high-tech industry value added in total value added
9.c
Significantly increase access to information and communications technology and strive to provide universal and affordable access to the Internet in least developed countries by 2020
9.c.1
Proportion of population covered by a mobile network, by technology
Goal 12
Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns
12.1
Implement the 10-Year Framework of Programmes on Sustainable Consumption and Production Patterns, all countries taking action, with developed countries taking the lead, taking into account the development and capabilities of developing countries
12.1.1
Number of countries developing, adopting or implementing policy instruments aimed at supporting the shift to sustainable consumption and production
12.2
By 2030, achieve the sustainable management and efficient use of natural resources
12.2.1
Material footprint, material footprint per capita, and material footprint per GDP
12.2.2
Domestic material consumption, domestic material consumption per capita, and domestic material consumption per GDP
12.3
By 2030, halve per capita global food waste at the retail and consumer levels and reduce food losses along production and supply chains, including post-harvest losses
12.3.1
(a) Food loss index and (b) food waste index
12.4
By 2020, achieve the environmentally sound management of chemicals and all wastes throughout their life cycle, in accordance with agreed international frameworks, and significantly reduce their release to air, water and soil in order to minimize their adverse impacts on human health and the environment
12.4.1
12.4.2
(a) Hazardous waste generated per capita; and (b) proportion of hazardous waste treated, by type of treatment
12.5
By 2030, substantially reduce waste generation through prevention, reduction, recycling and reuse
12.5.1
National recycling rate, tons of material recycled
12.6
Encourage companies, especially large and transnational companies, to adopt sustainable practices and to integrate sustainability information into their reporting cycle
12.6.1
12.7
Promote public procurement practices that are sustainable, in accordance with national policies and priorities
12.7.1
Number of countries implementing sustainable public procurement policies and action plans
12.8
By 2030, ensure that people everywhere have the relevant information and awareness for sustainable development and lifestyles in harmony with nature
12.8.1
Extent to which (i) global citizenship education and (ii) education for sustainable development are mainstreamed in (a) national education policies; (b) curricula; (c) teacher education; and (d) student assessment
12.a
Support developing countries to strengthen their scientific and technological capacity to move towards more sustainable patterns of consumption and production
12.a.1
Installed renewable energy-generating capacity in developing and developed countries (in watts per capita)
12.b
Develop and implement tools to monitor sustainable development impacts for sustainable tourism that creates jobs and promotes local culture and products
12.b.1
Implementation of standard accounting tools to monitor the economic and environmental aspects of tourism sustainability
12.c
Rationalize inefficient fossil-fuel subsidies that encourage wasteful consumption by removing market distortions, in accordance with national circumstances, including by restructuring taxation and phasing out those harmful subsidies, where they exist, to reflect their environmental impacts, taking fully into account the specific needs and conditions of developing countries and minimizing the possible adverse impacts on their development in a manner that protects the poor and the affected communities
12.c.1
Amount of fossil-fuel subsidies (production and consumption) per unit of GDP
SDG 14 targets covered
| Name | Description |
|---|
Deliverables & Timeline
Reduce textile waste through innovative circular solutions using traditional hand loom techniques
Increase economic opportunities among marginalized communities especially among women and indigenous communities
Resources mobilized
Partnership Progress
Feedback
Action Network
Share
Timeline
Entity
Region
- Asia and Pacific
Geographical coverage
Other beneficiaries
20 artisan communities across indigenous, urban and rural sector 10 production partners An estimated total of 950 artisan impacting 3800 lives (average 4 per household)
More information
Countries
Contact Information
Anya Lim, Co Founder / Managing and Creative Director