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This report details lessons learned from ‘Pro-poor tourism pilots, Southern Africa’ (PPT Pilots), which ran from 2002-2005 and aimed to work directly with 5 pilot partners to help them implement pro poor tourism and to learn from their experiences.

This report looks at the Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition, its structure, function, and activities, and plans to further partner with corporations and multilateral agencies. It addresses the question of whether a multi-sectoral partnership is a useful framework for addressing micronutrient deficiencies and what some of the challenges and lessons have been thus far.

This article on Creating Sustainable Local Enterprise Networks describes how successful inclusive businesses often include networks of companies, not-for-profit organizations and communities.

This report examines how public-private partnerships (PPPs) can best be harnessed to extend the reach and effectiveness of aid to address international and national development challenges. It explores the role of PPPs in mobilising resources for basic sanitation, health as well as water and sanitation.

Este artículo presenta un marco conceptual destinado a a la explicación teórica y práctica de estrategias de mercado que pueden beneficiar a las personas de bajos ingresos. Para esto se desarrolla un mosaico de nueve soluciones explicadas a través de ejemplos de emprendimientos o empresas que las aplican.

This report discusses the experiences of a 'KATALYST' project intervention within the vegetable sector in Rangpur, Bangladesh that is addressing the issue of 'low productivity' by focusing on the training of agricultural input retailers and the development of “embedded services” within the input supply chain. It outlines the analysis that underpins the intervention, gives details of what was done and how, and highlights initial changes arising from it.

This article builds a theoretical framework to help explain governance patterns in global value chains. It draws on three streams of literature: transaction costs economics, production networks, and technological capability and firm-level learning, to identify three variables that play a large role in determining how global value chains are governed and change.

This paper introduces the Shell Foundation and its way of working. It provides insights on how the private sector and the International Development Community (IDC) can most effectively catalyse equitable, self-sustaining development in poor countries. It describes the core features of Shell Foundation's approach and uses case examples to illustrate the outcomes, concluding with a set of propositions for wider debate and consideration by the international development and business communities.