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Consumer education can be one important component of microinsurance schemes; it benefits microinsurance practitioners by stimulating demand and helps low-income households make informed decisions. Led by ILO's Microinsurance Innovation Facility, Briefing Note #3 summarizes feedback collected by the Microinsurance Network's Insurance Education Working Group from more than fifty practitioners who were early implementers of consumer education schemes. The authors highlight key design features for content and delivery of education and provide examples of organizations that have successfully implemented the features in consumer education programmes. In the last section, they review the challenges of sustainability and monitoring and evaluation that are especially relevant for practitioners who want to integrate education into their business models.

Stories of Change is Ashoka’s electronic book series profiling stories of "changemakers in the Ashoka community", Fellows, Youth Venturers, staff and partners. In this report 22 social entrepreneurs from across the globe disclose what they hope or believe the world will look like in 2020, as well as what they will do to move in that direction.

This study reviews the model, challenges of scaling and successes of Bridge International, a for-profit social enterprise providing low-cost private schools. The company addresses the educational needs of poor children and plans to franchise nearly 3,000 schools all over Africa.

This paper discusses Microsoft’s experience of, and lessons to be learned from using cross-sector partnering approaches to support digital learning, and improving literacy and educational achievement across the world.

This comprehensive report examines practices in financing higher education in sub-Saharan Africa 'SSA', and examines the range of policy options in tackling the financing issues faced by higher education under the combined pressure of a rapidly growing demand and the scarcity of public resources.

This report focuses on key issue areas that need to be addressed to move the field of inclusive business forward. 14 different cases of companies which operate in a range of different countries and industry sectors are analysed and a first look provides a preliminary analysis of the drivers, results, and key elements these inclusive business models share.

This report points out five core challenges that companies face when implementing inclusive business models and shows exemplary solutions for these by using experiences from companies which are already active in Inclusive business. Besides it presents case studies of 14 companies with different inclusive business models in different regions of the world.

This article discusses how lesson plans created for affordable private schools 'APS' teachers form part of the support system that service providers offer the school as well as a strategic solution to many of the APS constraints.

This case study focuses on the inclusive business model of Anhanguera Educacional Participações S.A. (AESA), a leading private, for-profit professional education company in Brazil. AESA has developed a comprehensive portfolio of offerings including campuses, vocational training centers and learning centers, loans and scholarships, according to the needs of the low-income segment. The case describes the inclusive business model, the company's commercial drivers, results achieved as well as IFC's role and value add.