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This guide helps companies see the value in investing in the economic empowerment of women in their workplaces and communities and offers guidance on how companies can do so through gender diversity and community investment programmes.

This report briefly explains the approach of shared value, including factors and principles which are necessary for the successful inclusion of poor people into a company's value chain. Various business cases from different sectors and countries are presented and the diverse process steps from value chain analysis to project formulation, project implementation, impact measurement and scaling are examined.

This report covers some of the human rights risks faced by businesses who operate global value chains. Through a series of interviews it outlines the opportunities for responsible business practices and some of the barriers to addressing human rights concerns and offers ten recommendations for how businesses can work with other stakeholders to reduce the risk of human rights abuses.

The Inclusive Business Agenda was developed to formulate a strategic research, innovation and action agenda for engaging Swedish organisations with the needs and opportunities of the BoP. The Agenda recommends a comprehensive delivery approach based around 9 workstreams and 6 sectors. In addition to supporting Swedish business both large and small, it is envisioned that this approach will change the prevailing way Sweden does business with the developing world.
 

This report highlights the size of the revenue opportunity for banks which financial inclusion represents, and reviews where banks are at in capturing this opportunity. It documents six key insights on how banks can address this market, and recommendations for how governments, donors and NGOs can enable financial inclusion.

This report estimates that the global financial inclusion opportunity for banks is worth $380 billion, and it identifies six key insights for addressing this market responsibly and profitably.

This report examines responsible supply chains and assesses a set of companies that are building “ethical supply chains" and adopting “the triple supply chain advantage” approach by achieving profitability whilst benefiting society and the environment. It identifies 31 proven practices, underpinned by industry examples that provide guidance for companies looking to codify their own specific portfolio of triple advantage improvement measures.

This landscape study examines the impact investing industry across East Africa with particular detail on five countries—Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Ethiopia, and Rwanda. It captures activity that may be relevant for impact investors, such as investments at the base of the economic pyramid that may lack an explicit intention for positive impact, and it highlights the role of key industry actors such as government bodies, investment advisors, incubators, and accelerators.

This comprehensive report focuses on methods to increase smallholder farmers’ productivity as a way to improve their incomes and livelihoods by creating more value, operating more cost efficiently and capturing and sharing value. It is based on 15 global organisations and summarises 13 insights.

This report explores how mobile solutions are helping to improve agricultural productivity, efficiency and rural livelihoods in emerging markets, with a focus on six services: agricultural information services, receipt services, payments and loans, field audit, local supply chain, and smartphone-enabled services.