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This database contains a diverse range of more than 2,000 publications about inclusive business and relating topics, such as impact investing, microfinance and market systems approaches. You will find not only reports but also market intelligence, case studies, tools and videos that touch upon of several sectors and regions.

The diverse range of publications in this database all relate to inclusive business - meaning business models that engage base of the pyramid (BoP) consumers, suppliers, entrepreneurs and/or employees in low income and/or emerging markets.

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This report examines the value of regular, standardized assessments of Farmer Organisations, how this assessment process links to the capacities developed, and how quickly these capacities can be improved. It also analyses whether this improved “professionalism” leads to improved outcomes in the value chain. It also looks at the growing use of ICT.

PublisherAMEA
Publish Date
Author
LanguageEnglish
Region/CountrySub-Saharan Africa
Cameroon, Côte d'Ivoire, Ethiopia, Kenya, Rwanda, Senegal, Uganda
No

This report describes the design of a Behavioural Change Communications (BCC) campaign to promote improved cooking stoves in Kakuma town, Kakuma refugee camp and Kalobeyei Integrated Settlement, and the experiences and key learnings of the first six months of BCC campaign implementation (June to December 2021).

PublisherSNV, GIZ, EnDev
Publish Date
Author
LanguageEnglish
Region/CountrySub-Saharan Africa
Kenya
No

This report aggregates the voices of 6,000 Kenyan farmers interviewed between June 2020 and May 2021. They relate their lived experience during the Covid-19 pandemic and how livelihoods were adversely affected by supply chain disruptions and government lockdowns. 

Publisher60 Decibels
Publish Date
AuthorJ. Kaur, K. Reberg, T. Adams, V. Aggarwal
LanguageEnglish
Region/CountrySub-Saharan Africa
Kenya
IB Topics: BoP as supplier
No

This publication shows how Japanese retailer MUJI has built an inclusive supply chain positively impacting on small producers at the base of the pyramid (BOP), and how its stakeholders perceive its benefits. The report reflects direct feedback gathered during interviews and surveys conducted by IFC with different stakeholders in MUJI's supply chain, including producers, customers, employees, and management. The report highlights key challenges and opportunities that stem from engagement with the BOP producers in emerging markets. It also provides insights into good practice in incorporating the BOP producers into global value chains, drawing on MUJI’s experiences.

PublisherInternational Finance Corporation (IFC)
Publish Date
AuthorA. Masuda, S. Saruta
LanguageEnglish
Region/CountryEurope and Central Asia, South Asia, Sub-Saharan Africa
India, Kenya, Kyrgyz Republic, Lao PDR
IB Topics: BoP as supplier
No

Foreign companies operating in a ‘host’ country’s private sector play an important role in fostering inclusive development in these nations. This PhD thesis, exploring the contributions of the Dutch private sector to inclusive development in Kenya’s three most important sectors, tea, flower and renewable energy, finds that private companies operate in a very specific context and must adapt to existing local circumstances that are often not automatically inclusive.

PublisherLeiden University
Publish Date
AuthorA. H. Kazimierczuk
LanguageEnglish
Region/CountrySub-Saharan Africa
Kenya
No

This case study shares lessons learned from a capacity building project with farmer organisations in Kenya and Rwanda. The project stems from a five-year partnership program between MasterCard Foundation and a financial institution in Kenya which targeted agricultural value chain actors to offer mobile-based financial inclusion and information to smallholder farmers. 

PublisherAMEA
Publish Date
AuthorF. Di Matteo, M. Anderson, M. Blackett
LanguageEnglish
Region/CountrySub-Saharan Africa
Kenya, Rwanda
No

The idea of Inclusive Business is taking Africa by storm. The timely publication of a new concise book 'Inclusive business in Africa': A business model aims to take readers on a journey into the subject of Inclusive Business in Africa and shows how companies can be agents of change, contributing to inclusive development and growth. The publication brings together research supported by the Partnerships Resource Centre (PrC), a specialist research centre at Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University (RSM) and RSM’s Professor Rob van Tulder. 

PublisherThe Partnerships Resource Centre, Rotterdam School of Management
Publish Date
AuthorR. van Tulder, S. Lijfering
LanguageEnglish
Region/CountryMiddle East and North Africa, Sub-Saharan Africa
Ethiopia, Kenya
No

Food and nutrition security remain at the top of development priorities in low income countries. This is especially the case for smallholder farmers who derive their livelihood from agriculture yet are often the most deprived. Inclusive agribusinesses have been championed as a key strategy to address local constraints that limit smallholders’ participation in regional and global value chains, thereby enhancing their livelihood, and food and nutrition security, accordingly. This paper explores the potential food and security contribution of inclusive agribusiness in Makueni county, Kenya. It focus on the smallholders’ constraints and needs, exploring the extent to which these are addressed by such purported pro-poor approach.

PublisherSustainability
Publish Date
AuthorA.C.M.G. van Westen, E. Mangnus, J. Wangu
LanguageEnglish
Region/CountrySub-Saharan Africa
Kenya
No

This final factsheet of GCP project “Local and International business collaboration for productivity and Quality Improvement in Dairy chains in SE Asia and East Africa (LIQUID). It provides insights into power balances in formal and informal dairy value chains as related to the inclusive development effects of milk quality improvement activities can be considered as the .

PublisherFood & Business Knowledge Platform
Publish Date
Author
LanguageEnglish
Region/CountryEast Asia and Pacific, Sub-Saharan Africa
Indonesia, Kenya, Tanzania, Thailand
No

Producer organizations (POs) provide benefits to smallholders by alleviating market access challenges. However, whether all farmers benefit from a PO is still a question. However, whether all farmers benefit from a PO is still a question. Limited evidence is available on whether POs are inclusive of poor farmers. Even if the poor join, do they participate in decision‐making? This report provides insights into decision-making structures and what factors influence power balances.

PublisherNederlandseOrganisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek
Publish Date
AuthorJ. Bijman, M. Mwambi, P. Mshenga
LanguageEnglish
Region/CountrySub-Saharan Africa
Kenya
No