Publication database

This report provides a landscape for impact investment women’s health focused in Colombia and Peru in order to catalyze impact investment interest and capital to the most-needed areas of women’s health in Latin America. More specifically, it identifies gaps in service provision, areas of opportunity for investment, pipeline opportunities, and examples of women’s health programs that are focused on impact and sustainability.

The Entrepreneurship Database Program collects information from entrepreneurs when they apply to accelerator programs. These entrepreneurs, both those selected and not selected, are then surveyed annually to gather valuable follow-up data. This report summarizes application data collected from ventures operating in Central America that applied to participating accelerator programs between 2013 and 2018.

This report summarizes information gathered from 48 Impact Investors and entrepreneurial ecosystem stakeholders in Latin America - primarily members of the ANDE network- as well as 254 firms that comprise their portfolios. It includes information from surveys and key informant interviews with 24 Impact Investors and entrepreneurial ecosystem actors. This report highlights that while it is clear that gender equality is good for business and good for development, Impact Investors in Latin America are still only in the early stages of embedding this focus in their investment process and activities.

This report presents findings and best practices from idh's innovating partners with regards to empowering farmers through service delivery, while generating sustainable returns to their businesses. Learn more about their models’ drivers of farmer resilience, cost reduction and financial sustainability.  And get inspired, by service models helping millions of smallholder farmers out of poverty, in often remote areas and developing economies around the globe.

This report sheds light on the topic of data being generated by impact investee organisations. It concludes that impact management is at a nascent stage in ist development, and that further support is needed to catalyse further development.

The Earth Security Report 2017 provides a roadmap for global business to align their growth to the demands for social inclusion and environmental security that are defining the countries in which they operate, whilst navigating the risks and opportunities reflected in the wider Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) agenda. The report reveals that the exposure and impact of global industries to issues such as unemployment and pollution is now happening on a global scale and proposes practical changes that companies can make to link their production and consumption footprint to the sustainable growth of countries.

This report assesses the extent to which inclusive business models promote women's economic empowerment in Asia and Latin America. It looks at Inclusive businesses that involve women in their value chain and provide specific services that help low-income women.

This report examines how companies that serve the Base of Pyramid (BOP) use broadband to improve the efficiency of their operations and better reach this market segment in Latin America and the Caribbean. It explores broadband-enabled BOP business models, the ecosystem in which they operate, the benefits and challenges of broadband adoption, and the role of public policy and regulation.

This paper gives an overview of the business value that can be created from measuring poverty impact in an agricultural value chain initiative and points to some tools, indicators and lessons learned for how companies can go about maximizing the business and social impact of their work with smallholder farmers.

This case study looks at Coletivo Retail, an eight-week training programme to empower unemployed youth living in low-income communities, such as favelas, and to help them find new economic opportunities, set up by Coca-Cola in Brazil to strengthen its business by advancing the economic and social conditions in the communities in which it operates. The programme is present across 126 sites in Brazil and Coca-Cola’s sales in Coletivo communities grow 9.5% more per year on average, as a result of increased small retailer productivity and higher levels of economic prosperity in Coletivo communities.