Publication database

This Guidebook illuminates the critical part played by brokers in multi sector partnerships as both process managers and behind the scenes leaders. It focuses on partnership brokering – that essential intermediary function that enables partners to work well together and ensure the maximum effectiveness of their partnership.

This framework guide aims to assist three stakeholder groups – investors, corporations and public policymakers – in understanding how to navigate the social enterprise and impact investing space. For each of these groups it outlines three steps: prioritising the rationale for engaging, defining a strategy, and choosing specific approaches to execute.

This short documents provides a collection of tools for businesses exploring inclusive business opportunities; it includes a planning and obstacles to inclusivity framework and explains how partnership can help to overcome common obstacles companies face.

This guide to finance is aimed at social enterprises that need to access funding to grow and scale their enterprise. It has been designed to help social enterprises navigate their way through what is available and finding the most appropriate source of funding for their unique business.

This paper extracts lessons learned in working with informal finance institutions. It is designed for practitioners working to address the gap between supply and demand in agricultural finance, and is intended to support efforts to unlock capital for smallholder farmers and rural entrepreneurs.

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.

Blended finance is a strategy that combines capital with different levels of risk in order to catalyze risk-adjusted, market-rate-seeking financing into impact investments. The Blended Finance Working Group identified a number of challenges that arise in structuring blended finance investments. This resource is divided into three sections. Each section includes a downloadable list of key considerations and questions aimed to ensure stakeholders are aware of each other’s motivations and expectations in engaging in a blended finance structure; and links to blended finance case study examples to demonstrate the range of ways each catalytic tool can be leveraged in  blended finance structures.
 

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.

The report highlights two big global challenges for the current state of data: the challenge of invisibility, for instance gaps in what we know and when we know it and the challenge of inequality , including the gaps between those who know and those who do not know what they need to know make their own decisions. The IEAG report makes specific recommendations on how to address these challenges, calling for a UN-led effort to mobilise the data revolution for sustainable development.

This paper identifies key policy measures that will assist with creating a supportive enabling environment for off-grid solar solutions.