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The Energy Access India (EAI) program, funded by USAID from 2015 to 2018, was designed to close the circuit between clean energy enterprises and investors by providing access to knowledge and mentorship able to increase enterprises’ investor readiness so that more capital can flow to these enterprises. Researchers Researchers from the William Davidson Institute and Miller Center studied the challenges and lessons learned from the perspectives of enterprises and investors engaged in the program.

This report analyzes the business models and strategies of the EAI portfolio companies, identifies barriers and opportunities for investment in clean energy enterprises in India and provides actionable recommendations for enterprises and investors to influence the development of the overall clean energy industry.

Blended finance is a strategy that combines capital with different levels of risk in order to catalyze risk-adjusted, market-rate-seeking financing into impact investments. The Blended Finance Working Group identified a number of challenges that arise in structuring blended finance investments. This resource is divided into three sections. Each section includes a downloadable list of key considerations and questions aimed to ensure stakeholders are aware of each other’s motivations and expectations in engaging in a blended finance structure; and links to blended finance case study examples to demonstrate the range of ways each catalytic tool can be leveraged in  blended finance structures.
 

This publications shares lessons learnt from the implementation of 10 global Challenge Funds supported by Sida. It reviewed Sida’s rationale and underlying assumptions for the use of this modality in development cooperation, and identified best practices for Challenge Fund design and management. The experience from the 10 Challenge Funds is that intensively managed funds, with a more hands-on approach, had a greater degree of success in ensuring sustainable development outcomes than the lighter touch funds.

Esta presentación busca explicar por qué es necesario para las empresas enfocarse en la creación de valor con la base de la pirámide. Para esto expone brevemente 10 casos de proyectos de empresas latinoamericanas que han trabajado con este sector. Asi mismo, da recomendaciones de cómo poder llegar con este sector y cuáles pueden ser los retos.

The Impact investing market map, provides three basic but crucial benefits to the impact investing industry: (1) a common definition of a thematic investment that is aligned with at least one international organisation, global market leader and/or data provider; (2) basic criteria that explain a theme in practical terms, including thematic and financial conditions to identify specific businesses and investments aligned with the definition provided;  (3) a list of KPIs used by the impact investing community to track and assess the environmental and social performance of a specific theme.

This presentation makes a case for an Indian-Japanese partnership for collaborative investments into African projects.

This collaboration between YSB and BCG looks at how Venture Philanthropists have a unique opportunity to shape the future of social business. The report outlines a methodology to help Venture Philanthropists maximise the social impact of their investments, by analysing the type of data they are measuring their success with, as well as the quality of non-financial support they can provide.

This paper aims to foster a conversation around impact measurement and management 2.0 and actively integrating impact incentivization in investment processes. It builds on the results of the Conference Financing Global Development – Leveraging Impact Investing for the SDGs hosted by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) in Berlin on 21st November 2017.

IB financing as an investment and policy tool is a nascent tool with a promising but inconsistent track record in generating positive financial, economic, social, and environmental returns. Given the nexus binding exclusion, poverty, inequality, and resource consumption, this report argues that IB financing matters.

The objective of this study is to document the current situation in risk capital for agrifood businesses in Sub-Saharan Africa as evidence for related policy recommendations to governments, investment funds, technical service suppliers, philanthropists and other stakeholders. The paper summarises funds providing risk capital to agrifood SMEs in Africa, analyses the demand for risk capital and the extent to which demand and supply are matched. Finally, it identifies alternative means of financing for agrifood SMEs and concludes with policy recommendations.