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This brief article points out different aspects of innovation in low-income countries as well crucial impeding factors of innovations.

The report plots the cost and value-add of non-financial support. It recommends the best ways of engaging investees and grantees with non-financial support in order to accelerate their progress towards producing solid societal outcomes. The guide is targeted specifically at venture philanthropy (VP) and social investment (SI) practitioners, and more broadly at other social sector funders such as foundations, grantmaking organisations and impact investors.

This guide intends to bring newcomers into the game. It should help high net worth individuals, family offices and others to know some of the questions, if not the answers, to determine what’s right for them and what to do next to move toward meaningful, measureable impact.

UnLtd India has interviewed and analyzed 15 innovative entrepreneur support organizations around the world. Each section of the report includes a collation of best practices for each topic drawn from these 15 accelerators. These best practices are intended to provide clear and actionable insights that are applicable to a wide range of acclerators.

This report provides accelerators, researchers, and funders with a qualitative understanding of “what works” and “what is promising” in accelerating impact enterprises. It highlights the key challenges that must be addressed by all stakeholders in order for the field to continue to grow.

Across the world, insurers have shifted away from traditional agents and brokers to partner with various alternative distribution channels – ranging from churches, trade unions and mobile network operators to banks, retailers and even civil service organizations - as a way of reaching critical mass at low cost. This brief examines two of these channels – banking and retail correspondents – studying four examples in four countries.

This report examines four major issues that CARE thinks need to be addressed in order to enable more poor people to participate effectively and sustainably in market systems and value chains: risk, systems, innovation and scale.

This book chapter offers an integrated framework for poverty alleviation that maps the roles of private sector, government and civil society organizations.

This report details the impact of the Bamboo Finance portfolio of 41 investments across 33 countries. Bamboo Finance is a commercial private equity firm specialising in investing in business models that benefit low-income communities in emerging markets.

This report conceptualizes a new multi-tier framework for defining and measuring access to energy. Binary metrics help us understand the phenomenon of expanding energy access and how it impacts socioeconomic development. This report heralds a new definition and metric of energy access that is broader—it covers energy for households, productive engagements and community facilities, and focuses on the quality of energy being accessed. The multi-tier framework underlying Beyond Connections will prove to be a tool for measuring and goal-setting, investment prioritization, and tracking progress.