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In earlier work, PPPLab has identified ten ‘ingredients’ or building blocks of scaling strategies. This study looks at success factors for effective scaling processes. It focuses on how to shape the process: process dynamics, leadership, and the ability to act and relate, rather than on ‘what’ to address and achieve. What are the essential capabilities of those that lead the scaling process? How to make use of system dynamics in your scaling effort? How to partner in the most effective way to make scale happen?

Cargill and CARE’s 50-year partnership offers insights and lessons for anyone looking to build an effective and long- term partnership. This Briefing Paper describes how the partnership has evolved from a primarily philanthropic relationship to one that, especially over the past 10 years, has genuinely drawn on the capabilities, skills and resources of the two partners.

This report summarises survey results on the engagement of business in international development. The sample for the study included interviews with 25 company executives, 10 NGO executives, six journalists and four investment analysts.

This publication provides analysis of the inclusiveness of the public-private partnership (PPP) instruments FDW (Sustainable Water Fund) and FDOV (Facility for Sustainable Entrepreneurship and Food Security). The overall goal of the study is to gain more insights and a better understanding of inclusiveness in the PPP project portfolio. This will ultimately contribute to increased insights into the specific characteristics of the beneficiaries in the current FDOV and FDW portfolio and possible trickle-down or indirect effects.

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

The Model Agreement for Responsible Contract Farming is a simple and practical legal tool to support the implementation of global principles and guidelines and make responsible investment a reality. It is designed to address some of the inequalities in contract farming that disadvantage producers; to help create more equitable and sustainable business relationships as well as a transparent business environment for contract farming schemes; and to ensure the producer is paid a fair price for their goods in a timely manner.

This guide facilitates understanding and measurement of the proposed project indicators by the Country Partnerships which are supported by Grow Asia.

Este estudio de caso examina el proyecto con el que la empresa Hugo Restrepo en alianza con la Fundación Carvajal fortalece su cadena de suministro, logrando mejoras en productividad agrícola, e incrementando los ingresos de los pequeños productores agrícolas . Incluye tambien la descripción de su modelo financiero y su matriz de intercambio de valor.

This report presents lessons learned from various models that public and private sector programs use
to stimulate growth of agro-processing small and medium enterprises (SMEs) through linkages to larger firms in developing countries. The study considers the unique barriers that SMEs face and the market- driven approaches spurring SME growth by facilitating linkages to lead firms in challenging development contexts which might serve as a reference for policymakers, development practitioners, and private sector actors. The report presents approaches to successful, sustainable program design for public and private sector–led initiatives, in an effort to enrich the knowledge available to expand the opportunities for agro-processing, and to attract lead firms to partner with smaller ones.