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The Women’s Empowerment Principles Gender Gap Analysis Tool (WEPs Tool) is a business-driven tool designed to help companies from around the world assess gender equality performance across the workplace, marketplace, and community.

The focus of the tool is providing instructions, recommendations and examples to help analyse value chains for poverty reduction. The VCAT is primarily aimed at providers of digital financial services seeking to develop a better rural growth strategy, including mobile operators and other non-MNO mobile money providers. The tool would also be useful for AgTech companies and other digital agriculture implementers working to digitise the last mile.

The booklet highlights the importance of impact measurement and management (IMM) in small and growing business support, drawing on stories from members of ANDE South Africa's Metrics Learning Lab. It highlights their measurement approaches, impact successes and their learnings in impact measurement. The booklet also shares conversations that have been taking place at the Metrics Learning Lab to encourage further dialogue in the sector and foster a greater commitment to IMM amongst SGB support organizations.

The road to scaled impact is a nonlinear, complicated journey. Along the way, organizations have to overcome many challenges and roadblocks. The Scaling Pathways Theme Studies series dives into five topics, bringing to light lessons learned by successful social enterprises who have navigated challenges on the road to scaled impact. This document lays out key strategies and advice for ventures that are exploring, or already engaging in, government partnerships. 

The Thomson Reuters Foundation's work in Southeast Asia continues to prove that social entrepreneurs are at the forefront of driving change and creating social impact. The legal structure that social entrepreneurs choose for their venture can have a significant bearing on their ability to achieve social change. The guide identifies the advantages and disadvantages of each structure and sets out the relevant registration procedures, regulatory and governance considerations, tax treatment as well as finance and fundraising options – an understanding of all of this is so crucial to ensuring the sustainability, good governance and success of a social venture. 

The Centre for Asian Philanthropy and Society benchmarked the philanthropic sector in 15 Asian countries. The analysis ranks the countries on their enabling environment for philanthropic giving. Philanthropic organisations could be potential investors for inclusive businesses (IB) since they are looking for investments with a social and/or environmental impact. Social delivery organisations (SDOs), among them IBs, with a high level of transparency can attract philanthropic investment and thereby mobilise capital.

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

This digital database was designed to consolidate impact measurement and management resources and allow users to find those that are most relevant to them. It allows investors to tailor a list of fit-for-purpose resources, and is the most comprehensive database of impact-focused systems, methods, indicators, and data in the world. 

This publication lays out a step-by-step process that companies from the same sector can follow to explore, articulate and realize a common vision towards realization of the SDGs. This framework leads companies through a process of establishing their sector's current level of interaction with the SDGs throughout the value chain; identifying the sector's most significant opportunities for impact; and establishing key action items and monitoring systems in order to chart a course towards the sector's 2030 vision.