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This indepth report pulls together existing research and 60 interviews with local and national impact investors to analyse the landscape for impact investing country by country in Angola, Botswana, Lesotho, Madagascar, Malawi, Mauritius, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Swaziland, Zambia and Zimbabwe. This includes over 81 non-DFI impact investors and 26 development finance institutions with over 8,000 disclosed investments.

This study analyses inclusive agribusiness models operating in Madagascar. Aspects such as inclusivity, commercial viability and replicability are analysed for seven companies.

This guide provides an introduction and practical advice on the available options for providing improved water supply to low-income urban communities. It draws on sector experience, particularly on WSUP’s extensive experience of implementing urban WASH programmes in sub-Saharan Africa and elsewhere.

This report outlines lessons for scale-up deriving from WSUP’s 2008-2012 urban sanitation programme in Maputo (Mozambique) and Antananarivo (Madagascar). Suggestions on useful strategies include: supporting realistic sanitation planning by demonstrating workable solutions, and providing usable technical and financial plans.

This paper sets out to illustrate ways in which a social enterprise model can be seen as complementary to government-led anti-malnutrition programmes. It outlines the causes and consequences of child malnutrition in Madagascar; the programme Nutrimad's approach to tackling malnutrition with a nutritional Koba Aina flour product; and how Nutrimad is working with social enterprise Nutri’zaza to grow the programme.

This case study focuses on the inclusive business model of Zain Madagascar (now Airtel Madagascar), a mobile network operator active in the Middle East and Africa. Zain Madagascar worked to extend its reach to consumers who could not afford their own phones through a Village Phone Program (VPP). Network expansion through the VPP has made coverage possible in geographically remote areas and economies of scale help keep prices low. The case describes the inclusive business model, the company's commercial drivers, results achieved as well as IFC's role and value add.