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This report describes the design of a Behavioural Change Communications (BCC) campaign to promote improved cooking stoves in Kakuma town, Kakuma refugee camp and Kalobeyei Integrated Settlement, and the experiences and key learnings of the first six months of BCC campaign implementation (June to December 2021).

This report addresses the opportunity for the private sector to play a role in developing digital payment systems. It highlights various sectors where these opportunities are largely untapped and where global companies can leverage their networks to help bring consumers into the digital economy.

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 examines and outlines the early lessons learned and the strategic questions that face the 2013 launched SABMiller's 4e Camino al Progreso Program, a partnership with the Multilateral Investment Fund of the Inter-American Development Bank and FUNDES that aims to leverage economically viable and inclusive corporate value chains to empower small-scale retailers, their families, and their communities.

This paper examines the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in relation to companies' business activities. It sets out many significant opportunities for all companies to play a role in the achievement of the SDGs.

"This paper on Building the Social Structure of a Market begins with the assumption that markets are socially ordered and that organizations that seek to build them on specific social structuring activities. It sheds new light on the processes by which an NGO effectively develops a nascent market and associated value chain in an LDC. "

This case study explores the Firmenich and Danida partnership which was set up to establish and secure long-term and high-quality vanilla production in Uganda. It summarizes the partnership’s results which build on both commercial objectives as well as strong social and environmental goals. It highlights lessons learned in terms of developing innovative models for strategic partnerships between donor agencies, global, and local businesses with support from NGOs.

This case study draws lessons from a joint project between Oxfam and Unilever in Azerbaijan to set up a supply chain for onion powder for Unilever's soups and stocks brand Knorr. It looks at the challenges around implementing the project on the ground, as well as at the level of two international organisations, Oxfam and Unilever learning how to work together.

This case study reviews CARE Bangladesh's work in ensuring the sustainability of supply chains, and facilitating a partnership between Classical Handmade Products (CHP), a local handicraft supplier and KIK, a German retailer. It discusses the commercial impacts of the collaboration; the value added by CARE; and the development impacts to date.