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This publication outlines how the SDGs offer a compelling growth strategy for African business, pointing to an economic prize of at least US$1.1 trillion by 2030 for the African private sector and the potential to create 85 million new jobs. The report highlights opportunities in four sectors: food and agriculture, energy, health and cities.

This report provides an overview of the affordable housing market in Kenya; it is aimed at practitioners and investors who are looking to enter the affordable housing sector in the country or elsewhere. It describes the challenges that practitioners encounter and provides strategies to address them.

This report includes a set of 31 case studies on IFC’s portfolio companies with inclusive business models. The presented companies are profitably providing goods, services, and livelihood opportunities to the Base of the Pyramid. In the case studies the reader gets an insight in the specific background of the companies, the business models as well as drivers for the specific business models and results of the latter.

This case study focuses on Moladi, a family business based in South Africa, active in construction technology, seeking to provide affordable housing solutions for the poor. The firm’s basic model is to combine its construction technology with a simplified assembly method that helps to reduce both the costs and complexity of the building process. The report describes the model, looks at the actors and results that have been achieved.

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 case study focuses on a programme implementing the Kyoto Protocol’s Clean Development Mechanism (CDM), which retrofits low-income houses in the urban township of Kuyasa, Khayelitsha, South Africa with solar water geysers, insulated ceilings and compact fluorescent light bulbs. The programme is funded through a funding model of the South African Export Development Fund. The report describes the market and location context, the business model, and looks at the constraints, relationships and results.