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The GALI team consistently hears questions from accelerators and others in the field about financial sustainability. In this brief, we ask: How do accelerators fund their programs, and how do different funding profiles relate to different accelerator offerings?

This report by the European Venture Philanthropy Association (EVPA) provides an overview of how to tailor the financial instruments to the needs of the social purpose organisations, by looking at pros and cons of each financial instrument and selecting the ones that are the most suitable. The EVPA report also presents examples from the emerging field of hybrid finance, which helps bring more resources to developing societal solutions and increase the effectiveness in financing social purpose organisations.

To help PPPs with their scaling strategies in practice, PPPLab in cooperation with CIMMYT also developed a tool to strengthen strategies for scale. The tool was developed in 2017 on basis of ongoing research of both organizations on how development initiatives scale in practice. Several test runs with the tool have been carried out with project teams in the Netherlands, Mexico, India, Nepal and Kenya. The Scaling Scan helps you to analyse, reflect on, and sharpen your scaling ambition and approach. The tool consists of a self-assessment that helps you identifying the key challenges for the specific scaling situation and phase you are in.

This paper is a high-level 'anatomy of a corporation' that explores the business considerations of a company. It also maps the ways in which those factors impact inclusive growth and achieve business benefits. This framework is intended to help businesses think about their activities, choices and strategies through the lens of inclusive growth. Investors, for their part, can use this framework to evaluate risks and opportunities related to inclusive growth.

Insurance supervisors in emerging markets have developed different approaches to foster markets for inclusive insurance. Several markets have undergone transformative changes as a result, but what has been the impact of these measures? The Access to Insurance Initiative (A2ii) and the Facility have commissioned this study to assess the impact of microinsurance regulatory frameworks on developing inclusive insurance markets by way of a Regulatory Impact Assessment. 

Part 1 of this report discusses instrumental and infrastructural approaches to ID and argues for long-term investments in ID infrastructure. Institutions and individuals each have key roles in the ID ecosystem, and we will discuss the tensions inherent in trying to serve both. Part 2 of this report asks how the ID landscape is changing. Emerging technologies will expand the options for identifying and authenticating individuals and introduce new actors across the DID value chain. While some emerging trends may offer greater opportunity for inclusion, higher confidence in authentication, or better data security, new technologies and new actors may also change the roles of traditional ID-granting institutions and their relationships with ID-holding individuals. How we address these emerging trends in technology will determine whether ID is an instrument of empowerment and inclusion or surveillance, disempowerment, and exclusion.

This working paper aims to expand the evidence-base around the potential for blended finance to narrow the SDG funding gap. It provides an analysis of Convergence's dataset of nearly 200 blended finance transactions which have mobilised more than $50 billion towards sustainable development. The analysis shows that the number of blended finance deals is increasing each year. The working paper also provides a useful map of the key organisations active in the blended finance ecosystem (including private investors, multilateral and bilateral development banks and donors).

The paper discusses agricultural insurance subsidy in detail and draws upon available literature and case study experiences to propose good practice guidelines for the design and implementation.

When Pioneer Insurance started offering insurance for low-income households in 2007, it had one distribution partner – CARD MRI. Today, after ten years, Pioneer’s joint-venture with CARD MRI - CARD Pioneer Microinsurance – works with almost 100 institutional partners, has issued more than 18 million policies in 2016, and generated Php 936 million pesos (USD 19 million) of premiums. Pioneer Microinsurance is currently one of the biggest commercial microinsurance provider in the Philippines.

This guide addresses key questions on why and how businesses should develop new and innovative investment strategies and models in order to create impact. It discusses how profit and impact form a virtuous cycle where more positive outcomes can lead to more value for companies, which leads to the generation of even greater positive outcomes and organisational resilience.