[01] John Nkeobuna Nnah Ugoani, Department of Management Sciences, College of Management and Social Sciences, Rhema University, Aba, Nigeria.

The study was designed to explore the relationship of social entrepreneurship and sustainable development in Nigeria, using the Nigerian Conservation Foundation as the point of analysis. Even though this type of study is very scanty in Nigeria, social entrepreneurship has gained significant recognition as an important phenomenon for social change and sustainable development. As a multidimensional movement social entrepreneurs through their social enterprises often perceive huge opportunities resulting from market failures, and whether operating as a profit or not for profit organizations aim at building and sustaining a social enterprise to enhance generational social change and sustainable development. Since the 1980s the Nigerian Conservation Foundation has been focusing on sustainable development indicators like poverty alleviation, halting environmental degradation, soil conservation and reforestation as efforts to reduce meaningless and unsustainable development activities in Nigeria. Case study research design was used for the study, and through data analysis the study found high positive association between the activity of the Nigerian Conservation Foundation and UN SDGs agenda. On the basis of the result, it was recommended among others that government should support SEOs in efforts to promote sustainable development in Nigeria.

Social Entrepreneur, Sustainable Entrepreneurship, Serendipity, NCF, Yunus, Edu, Social and Environmental El Dorado

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