Publication database

The Partnership Co-design Toolkit offers a disciplined approach to co-designing business models for resilient value chain partnerships. It builds upon MIT D-Lab learnings from designing and testing the P-ACT Conversation tool and SEED’s experience with their Entreprise toolkit; as well as an in-depth literature review of existing partnership design and facilitation tools.

This guide shows how large companies can collaborate with other actors to build business ecosystems that enable small and medium sized companies (SMEs) to thrive. Based on concrete examples, it establishes elements of “Market Building Collaboration” and points out an agenda for action for large companies, the public sector and SME support institutions.

This guide aims to give NGOs and companies guidance in conducting more productive inclusive business partnerships as equal partners. We hope these pages will create a better understanding for what inclusive business partnerships actually are, provide inspiration in the form of real partnership examples, and offer a way forward by documenting the lessons learned by practitioners in the field.

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

This guide addresses key questions on why and how businesses should develop new and innovative investment strategies and models in order to create impact. It discusses how profit and impact form a virtuous cycle where more positive outcomes can lead to more value for companies, which leads to the generation of even greater positive outcomes and organisational resilience.

This online tool will help you to learn how to improve your support to market-driven initiatives to achieve social impact. This unique scan will help you to identify the internal capabilities your NGO has or should have to contribute to creating strong business initiatives with explicit social objectives embedded. The tool also serves as a good baseline and/or progress measurement tool in organisational development tracks in the field of Inclusive Business.

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 provides guidance for project design teams on how to design a 4P component and how to support the implementation of 4Ps within IFAD-funded projects, building on findings and lessons learned from previous IFAD-supported projects. It begins by defining the 4P and related concepts and then analyses the basic elements that need to be considered when designing and establishing a 4P followed by recommendations for the implementation of 4Ps.