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This guide provides concepts and tools for working with actors along the entire value chain so that modern markets can be more inclusive of small-scale producers and entrepreneurs. It explains the drivers of change in modern agri-food markets, provides a framework for analysing how institutions and policies shape the risks and opportunities for small-scale producers and entrepreneurs, shows how to design multi-stakeholder processes that help actors from along the chain work together to realise common interests and secure domestic and regional markets inclusive of small-scale producers and entrepreneurs and offers practical ideas for facilitating workshops and policy dialogues

This field guide on social intrapreneurship outlines the characteristics, habits, and approaches of a 'social intrapreneur' - someone who works inside major corporations or organisations to develop and promote practical solutions to social/environmental challenges where progress is currently stalled by market failures. It discusses the challenges and opportunities and draws on in-depth research from twenty leading global corporations.

This report details three cross-industry initiatives: The OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises; The United Nations Global Compact Principles; and the IFC Performance Standards on Social and Environmental Sustainability. The document aims to provide a user-friendly, balanced and impartial guide to help businesses to navigate their way through the tools available on responsible business conduct in international operations.

This manual provides step-by-step guidance on how to create competitive small and medium enterprises (SMEs) that can be integrated into the supply chains of large companies, using a technical and business skills mentoring approach. It highlights the key success factors and challenges involved in developing local SMEs in a post-conflict and/or poor country.

This toolbook is designed for partnership practitioners from all sectors, to enable them to understand the importance of good communication to their work, and to help them develop techniques to improve their communications – both inside, and beyond, the partnership.

The ValueLinks manual is the reference book for the ValueLinks methodology, intended for use by development projects or by public agencies promoting specific agribusiness, handicraft or manufacturing sub-sectors of the economy. It has no specific sectoral focus, however, the emphasis is on those product markets that offer opportunities for the poor.