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This report assesses the extent to which inclusive business models promote women's economic empowerment in Asia and Latin America. It looks at Inclusive businesses that involve women in their value chain and provide specific services that help low-income women.

A guide for early-stage global health innovators on business models and partnership approaches to scale-up. With a focus on scaling medical products and technologies, but the clarity on business model options and decision-making tools, this report is useful for all sectors.

This report tackles the issue of how inclusive business models move private sector engagement in the SDGs beyond philanthropic or CSR efforts but ingrain them in the core operations of a business. It identifies five drivers of financial value that can push companies to look for alignment with the SDGs. The report ends with a list of 10 critical success factors to keep in mind when designing and implementing an inclusive business.

This compendium of case studies featuring Public-Private Partnerships, this is a first attempt by the UNECE to generate interest in the SDGs through real projects that made a difference in their respective communities.

This paper provides a quantitative and qualitative presentation of USAID’s public-private partnerships and business sector participation in those PPPs. The analysis offered here is based on USAID’s PPP data set covering 2001-2014 and interviews with executives of 17 U.S. corporations that have engaged in PPPs with USAID.

This publication presents five in-depth case studies of inclusive businesses and identifies the common strategies these companies are employing to do business with people living at the base of the pyramid. Ranging in geographies and sectors (agriculture, education, financial services, and healthcare), each company has a unique path but their shared strategies provides insights that can spark innovation among future business entrepreneurs. The case studies are based on interviews with the companies’ founders, chief executive, and senior management.

This report provides insights on the impact enterprise landscape in East Africa. The report identifies three different categories of impact enterprises: Access enterprises provide critical products and services among the low income and underserved population. Ability enterprises increase their capacity to earn higher incomes through skilling or by engaging with them as partners. Lastly, Knowledge enterprises build awareness and markets, and encourage behaviour change.