The British Council, supported by United Nations ESCAP, in collaboration with HSBC and Social Enterprise UK, has collected data since 2017 together to produce a comprehensive, comparative social enterprise landscape report across South East Asia. The report covers studies conducted in Hong Kong, China; Indonesia; Malaysia; the Philippines; Singapore; Thailand and Viet Nam.

The research for each survey has been based on methodology developed by Social Enterprise UK, and undertaken by the British Council in partnership with both international and local partners. The surveys aim to provide a summary of the current size, scale and scope of the social enterprise sector in several countries in South East Asia.