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This paper aims to explore how Corporate Impact Venturing, encompassing all ventures generating financial, strategic and social and/or environmental returns, is applied in practice, and what is needed to enable such productive partnerships between corporations and inclusive business in low-income markets of developing countries.

This publication provides a conceptual and case-based exploration of scaling impact in relation to PPPs. It seeks to unpack the concept of scaling and create conceptual clarity by presenting an overview of the terms, frameworks, and models used in relation to scaling. It aims at understanding the specific role of PPPs in scaling and at supporting practitioners in getting to grips with different scaling approaches.

This report discusses "system leadership" needed to tackle global challenges like food security, climate change, job creation, and gender parity. System leadership can help align the efforts of diverse stakeholders in order to accelerate this process, and ensure that it delivers more sustainable, inclusive business growth and human development.

This report reviews the World Economic Forum’s New Vision for Agriculture (NVA) initiative that has supported leaders in 19 countries across Asia, Africa and Latin America to develop action-oriented partnerships on the ground, mobilizing over $10.5 billion in investment commitments. The reports describes the diverse partnership models that have emerged, building upon a shared vision, a set of core principles, and series of key tactical steps that are similar across many countries.

Innovation can foster development. Based on this assumption, the book provides guidance for researchers and organisations in the development sector how to fund, organise and scale innovation in order to solve societal problems.

This report draws on a series of case studies to consider what works in order to deliver on the post-2015 agenda. It is clear that traditional forms of development aid will no longer be adequate and that new forms of governance, partnerships and financing – particularly between public, private and informal economy actors – will be required.

This document provides a summary of the third annual Grow Asia Forum held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, on 31 May 2016. The event focused on advancing opportunities for collaboration on engaging smallholder farmers in value chain projects, supporting innovation, financing farmers using digital platforms to scale solutions.

The report outlines the data around INGOs’ current approaches to making investments, receiving investments, providing technical assistance, and building the impact investing ecosystem. It then delves into some of the most important issues for INGOs, including internal capacity, organizational culture, measurement, and partnerships. Each section is complemented by short sidebars that bring these topics into greater clarity through specific examples of how INGOs are engaging. These examples are then expanded into short profiles.

This compendium of case studies featuring Public-Private Partnerships, this is a first attempt by the UNECE to generate interest in the SDGs through real projects that made a difference in their respective communities.