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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 .

This document presents ENERGIA’s four-year journey to create and upscale womencentric energy enterprises that sell safe, reliable and affordable energy solutions to low-income consumers in underserved areas. As a learning document, it seeks to analyse the various strategies with which ENERGIA has worked in different contexts. It draws out common features of the most promising ones, as well as lessons from efforts that did not go so well, or even failed completely.

This study examines how electricity insecurity affects the productivity and growth of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in low and middle income countries, and how this impact can be mitigated. The analysis focuses largely on manufacturing SMEs which account for significant employment in developing countries and are associated with higher per capita GDP.

This report offers insights on women’s needs for financial management tools and the use of mobile financial services 'MFS' in Indonesia, Kenya, Pakistan, Papua New Guinea and Tanzania. It illustrates common barriers to adoption and identifies opportunities for MFS providers to overcome these barriers in order to grow the women’s segment for MFS and mobile phone services and increase the likelihood of commercial success for the savvy service provider.

This comprehensive report provides findings from a study which focused on Bangalore in India, Dar es Salaam in Tanzania, Sa?o Paulo in Brazil and Shanghai in China to better understand how public agencies, business and civil society in these rapidly growing cities are working to develop solutions to the mobility opportunity divide and the negative impacts associated with mobility.