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This market scoping study was conducted to assess the feasibility of establishing a social investment fund to support inclusive businesses in Vietnam. It focuses on: understanding the opportunity to develop inclusive business approaches in Vietnam; the presence of private sector interest and viable opportunities to support inclusive business initiatives; the capacity and readiness of social, political and business stakeholders to invest and develop inclusive business; and what suitable investment strategies can catalyse the inclusive business potential in Vietnam.

This checklist outlines requirements that inclusive businesses need in order to secure third party investment. Practitioners can check their inclusive business model in various categories, including company structure, market intelligence, business plan or impact measurement.

This brochure deals with the Indian landscape of micro, small and medium enterprises (MSME) and highlights their challenges and what GIZ is doing to create an enabling environment for MSMEs. It introduces GIZ's private sector services for small businesses and other forms of support including help obtaining finance and work on related policy issues.

This report depicts the landscape of financing options for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in Bangladesh. It provides an in-depth analysis of finance providers and discusses how policy makers, financiers and SME entrepreneurs can enhance access to finance.

This framework guide aims to assist three stakeholder groups – investors, corporations and public policymakers – in understanding how to navigate the social enterprise and impact investing space. For each of these groups it outlines three steps: prioritising the rationale for engaging, defining a strategy, and choosing specific approaches to execute.

This report identifies innovations that can help bankers in developing countries to finance agricultural small and medium enterprises. It highlights the most promising examples of innovative financing, risk mitigation and distribution models drawn from a stocktaking exercise of 100 global cases.

This report examines the scale, scope, and need for smallholder financing. It identifies five primary growth pathways for deploying investment to address smallholder finance demand: (i) replicate and scale existing financing models, (ii) innovate new financial products beyond short-term export trade finance, (iii) finance out-grower schemes of multinational buyers in captive value chains, (iv) finance through alternate points of aggregation in the value chain, and (v) finance directly to farmers.

This case study evaluates the results, impacts and lessons learned from a project which aimed to improve the competitiveness of the cultivation of organic cocoa by small producers from the National Confederation of Dominican Cocoa Producers, Inc. (CONACADO), a producer and exporter of fermented organic cocoa. It discusses how the MIF-facilitated access to medium-term financing and technical assistance for the renovation and rehabilitation of plantations, and strengthened the institutional capacity of CONACADO and its affiliates.

The 2012 ANDE report on small and growing businesses (SGBs) focuses on three “action areas” for the SGB sector: (1) hurdles for female entrepreneurs; (2) the finance gap for start-ups; and (3) the difficulties faced by smallholder agricultural businesses when attempting to enter the global market.

This market study assesses the feasibility of setting up an inclusive business private equity (PE) fund in India and Sri Lanka for the Asian Development Bank (ADB). It focuses on three key elements: the relevance of setting up a PE fund in the countries; the appropriate strategy for such a fund; and lastly how the ADB fund should be operationalised.