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This Toolkit provides a range of good practices, case examples, and resources to guide companies on how to get started or how to enhance existing efforts to employ, empower, and improve the advancement prospects of those living in poverty. This Toolkit, developed through literature review and drawing on the extensive knowledge and good practices of global GISC member companies, is intended as a resource for all employers at all stages of their inclusive employment journeys.

In India, there has been a rise in the number of social enterprises and a growing interest in impact investing, as social enterprises look to expand and seek alternate means of funding. However, there is a knowledge gap among entrepreneurs and accelerators in understanding the legal landscape and managing negotiations related to impact investing in India. This report is an attempt to address a gap in the impact investing ecosystem in India, where there are numerous complex structural and legal concepts that require understanding, both for investors and entrepreneurs.

While there is an increase in support for investors and businesses to find one another, little is known on how to efficiently and effectively conduct this activity. This guide directly addresses this knowledge gap and serves as a two-part handbook: First, as an introduction on the value effective ‘Matchmaking’ offers, suggesting a typology and ways in which providers of technical assistance (TA) can effectively engage in matchmaking. And secondly, as a practical guidebook, offering a theory of change and a practical step-by-step framework on how to structure matchmaking as part of programmatic activities. Overall, this guide encourages TA providers to broaden the application of matchmaking and to adopt a shift in perspective from conventional matchmaking activities. 
 

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.

The purpose of this handbook is to enable the development of more sustainable, resilient and productive supply chains for agribusinesses and to illustrate the substantial development impact. Smallholder farmers are both an opportunity and a challenge for food and agribusiness companies. Many firms source from smallholders or are actively seeking to source from them. Yet the development and strengthening of smallholder supply chains remains a key challenge for many IFC agribusiness clients. Working with Smallholders handbook compiles innovative solutions and cutting-edge ideas for these challenges. The handbook incorporates a diverse collection of hands-on case studies from across the world regions covering wide variety of agribusiness sectors.

ANDE’s Ecosystem Snapshots are designed to collect basic information about the support available for small and growing businesses in a specific city or country. This information acts as a census of the local actors and represents a specific moment in time.

The Green and Inclusive Business (GIB) Toolbox provides assistance for supporting companies at all different stages of business development. Firstly, start-ups can be supported in designing their business model in a green and/or inclusive way. Secondly, existing SMEs and large companies can adopt GIB models, for example by integrating small-scale producers into their value chains or adapting their products to new target groups. Thirdly, already existing GIB models can be scaled up for a greater outreach and development impact. From Costa Rica to Yemen, from regional to global level – this new toolbox contains 21 tried-and-tested tools, which have been developed to support green and inclusive business models in development cooperation.

Este documento presenta una guía bajo la experiencia del Consejo Empresarial Mundial para el Desarrollo Sostenible para aquellas empresas que buscan hacer negocio con los pobres. Esto lo hace a través de los aprendizajes de 12 empresas internacionales y una serie de preguntar para orientar el trabajo de las empresas.

Esta publicación desarrolla una guía para la gestión de emprendimientos sociales, abarcando temas de liderazgo, estrategia, cultura organizacional, recursos humanos, finanzas, estructura, relación con organismos gubernamentales y medición de impacto.