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The Women’s Empowerment Principles Gender Gap Analysis Tool (WEPs Tool) is a business-driven tool designed to help companies from around the world assess gender equality performance across the workplace, marketplace, and community.

The road to scaled impact is a nonlinear, complicated journey. Along the way, organizations have to overcome many challenges and roadblocks. The Scaling Pathways Theme Studies series dives into five topics, bringing to light lessons learned by successful social enterprises who have navigated challenges on the road to scaled impact. This document lays out key strategies and advice for ventures that are exploring, or already engaging in, government partnerships. 

This digital database was designed to consolidate impact measurement and management resources and allow users to find those that are most relevant to them. It allows investors to tailor a list of fit-for-purpose resources, and is the most comprehensive database of impact-focused systems, methods, indicators, and data in the world. 

This publication lays out a step-by-step process that companies from the same sector can follow to explore, articulate and realize a common vision towards realization of the SDGs. This framework leads companies through a process of establishing their sector's current level of interaction with the SDGs throughout the value chain; identifying the sector's most significant opportunities for impact; and establishing key action items and monitoring systems in order to chart a course towards the sector's 2030 vision.

This workbook has been conceived as a practical tool for innovators working in the agricultural sector to reach and effectively serve the untapped market of women smallholder farmers in emerging economies. The workbook reviews existing resources and tools for designing and marketing products, services, and technologies, provides a way to assess barriers and opportunities for reaching the missing market of women farmers, and recommends specific tools and processes for the entire business cycle, from product design to market entry, retention, and growth.

This paper introduces the IB Scan, a method to reveal crucial insights on the inclusion of smallholders in agricultural value chains complementing conventional data collection methods. The IB Scan offers companies, producer organisations, NGOs, and service providers a fast and efficient monitoring tool to measure the inclusivity of a particular business model as it is perceived by smallholder farmers.

This paper explores how social enterprises measure impact: are impact investees using tools such as IRIS, a standard that was set up by the Global Impact Investing Network, or B Impact Assessment, a free tool by B Lab that helps any for-profit business measure and manage their social and environmental impact.? If they are, what factors are driving this adoption? If not, why not? And are they using other approaches instead?

This report provides an overview of common strategies and challenges to measure impact, especially in the clean energy sector. The second part of the report comes up with 12 commonly-used metrics for clean energy investments and the approaches used to measure them.

Private sector development (PSD) practitioners are increasingly pursuing strategies aimed at increasing income and economically empowering poor women. For programmes to credibly prove that these strategies impact poor women - and to improve this impact through adaptive design and delivery - monitoring and results management systems must be capable of understanding differentiated gendered impact. This paper explores the complexity of measuring gendered impact in PSD programmes.