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Are inclusive businesses reaching scale? What scale is that, in terms of revenue and reach? How many fail? This Spotlight draws on evidence from three portfolios, that have in total supported 160 companies, to share information on what patterns emerge from a combined data set.

This guide offers tips for Finnish SMEs interested in emerging markets, particularly serving the Base of the Pyramid, in highlighting business opportunities, tailoring products and services and showing examples of successful inclusive business models.

This training manual introduces the Agribusiness Supplier Development Programme (ASDP) and its major elements and concepts to UNDP Country Office staff, relevant Government departments and agencies, lead firms and potential implementers. It includes the objectives of an ASDP, benefits of the programme to different stakeholders, roles and responsibilities of different stakeholders and the implementation of an ASDP in 6 phases. For "trainings sessions" four different agricultural case studies from Kenya, Nigeria and Sierra Leone are presented.

This report charts the rise of social venture incubation, with a focus on what can be learned by this burgeoning sector from programmes around the world. It is intended for people and organisations wanting to support social ventures either as policymakers, investors or people running incubation programmes, to ensure that ventures have the best support. It presents models and methods of social venture incubation and looks at future trends, opportunities and challenges.  

This guide offers corporate practitioners piloting shared value initiatives in health in low- and middle-income countries a series of tools to develop a cost-effective measurement strategy for their programmes. Nestlé's work in nutrition and Novo Nordisk's work in pharmaceuticals provide concrete examples of these shared value strategies in practice.

Este documento presenta herramientas para el desarrollo, implementación y consolidación de negocios verdes nacionales e internacionales capaces de aprovechar las ventajas comparativas ambientales.

The report highlights two big global challenges for the current state of data: the challenge of invisibility, for instance gaps in what we know and when we know it and the challenge of inequality , including the gaps between those who know and those who do not know what they need to know make their own decisions. The IEAG report makes specific recommendations on how to address these challenges, calling for a UN-led effort to mobilise the data revolution for sustainable development.

Good partnership agreements can make a significant contribution to shaping good partnerships – and ultimately define their success. This guide includes both an overview of the nature and value of agreements and a new tool for their construction and review – the Partnering Agreement Scorecard.

Esta guía presenta una parte conceptual general sobre negocios inclusivos y proyectos público -privados y ofrece herramientas para su diseño y puesta en marcha. Se enfoca en las alianzas que tienen Negocios inclusivos y Proyectos Públicos Privados con productores que operan en los primeros eslabones de las cadenas agroalimentarias y empresas compradoras de dichos productos.

This guide offers a practical resource on how to analyse and upgrade value chains, with numerous full-colour diagrams, charts and photos, the content is deliberately tailored to the needs of those who are actually employed in value chains in the Pacific. As well as an introduction to the topic and a step-by-step guide to value chain analysis, this accessible handbook provides a wealth of lessons from case studies, along with helpful additional tools and resources.