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This guide helps companies see the value in investing in the economic empowerment of women in their workplaces and communities and offers guidance on how companies can do so through gender diversity and community investment programmes.

Insurance is an effective mechanism to complement or extend social protection schemes. By using insurance mechanisms and the insurance industry, governments can achieve various public policy objectives, such as improved food security and universal health coverage. Effective public-private partnerships (PPPs) can achieve scale and improve the quality of social protection programmes by leveraging the skills and resources of the partners. This brief presents ten recommendations that governments and insurers should follow when designing and implementing a PPP in insurance.

This report discusses functions and characteristics of multi-stakeholder initiatives, collaborations between a company and other firms, governments, civil society organisations, local communities and/or smallholders to achieve more inclusive business frameworks along the whole of their value chain. It analyses the role of stakeholders, governance models and approaches to evaluate their effectiveness, while providing five successful examples.

This report briefly explains the approach of shared value, including factors and principles which are necessary for the successful inclusion of poor people into a company's value chain. Various business cases from different sectors and countries are presented and the diverse process steps from value chain analysis to project formulation, project implementation, impact measurement and scaling are examined.

This report covers some of the human rights risks faced by businesses who operate global value chains. Through a series of interviews it outlines the opportunities for responsible business practices and some of the barriers to addressing human rights concerns and offers ten recommendations for how businesses can work with other stakeholders to reduce the risk of human rights abuses.

Being able to design and implement insurance public-private partnerships (PPPs) in insurance requires a long-term vision and a good understanding between partners. This paper presents ten recommendations, based on the experiences of four cases from Colombia, India, Mexico, and Peru, which aim to help both governments and the insurance industry to establish successful PPPs.

This report highlights the size of the revenue opportunity for banks which financial inclusion represents, and reviews where banks are at in capturing this opportunity. It documents six key insights on how banks can address this market, and recommendations for how governments, donors and NGOs can enable financial inclusion.

This report makes the case for inclusive business to secure supply of produce, enter new markets, enhance brand reputation, benefit from innovation and be more attractive to employees. It argues that Public-Private Partnerships can increase these benefits and uses examples in Ethiopia and Burundi.

This report provides a framework, examples, and reflections on lessons learned from Acumen's various partnerships and collaboration efforts. It aims to catalyse discussion and collaborative action that accelerates growth with impact.

This report is based on four case studies of agricultural value chain PPPPs developed through projects financed by the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) in Ghana, Indonesia, Rwanda and Uganda. It reviews existing literature on PPPPs, summaries of the key features of the case studies and field work, learnings drawn from the research and a PPPP checklist which outlines the role for brokers in the process.