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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.

New products and services sold to low-income people in emerging markets often fl ame out before the eff ort reaches the scale it needs to thrive. Here’s what business leaders need to know to escape that fate.

This paper explores the potential of inclusive distribution. It introduces main concepts as well as the driving forces behind the field. The second part introduces examples of inclusive distribution models and results including social enterprises and corporations. The last part provides insights, lessons and recommendations from practitioners around the design and implementation of inclusive distribution strategies.

This guide discusses the following five steps - understanding the SDGs, defining priorities, setting goals, integrating, and reporting and communication - to assist companies in maximizing their contribution to the SDGs. Companies can apply the five steps to set or align their course, depending on where they are on the journey of ensuring that sustainability is an outcome of core business strategy

This report is a practical guide to help organisations navigate the different organisational cultures they will encounter in partnerships. It is focused on cross-sectoral partnerships, drawing on experience of the World Food Programme and North Star Alliance.

This Toolbook is designed to support the uptake and delivery of partnerships that contribute to sustainable development in Zambia. It provides the rationale for forming these partnerships and offers a range of practical tools (below) that can help people work in partnership more effectively.

Este publicacion analiza la experiencia de Bonafont a fin de identificar elementos y aprendizajes que la hacen potencialmente replicable en otras compañías de países emergentes. Es una guía para empresas que busquen desarrollar, fortalecer y/o replicar sus modelos de negocios inclusivos basados en el reciclaje y en el cierre de ciclo de vida de los residuos.

This edition of the Tetra Pak Magazine looks closely at the opportunities the consumers “Deeper in the Pyramid” offer. The edition highlights examples of companies in other industries and examines the business models they are using to leverage this exciting opportunity. This magazine edition also presents ways in which companies can meet the needs of low-income consumers around the world with nutritious, safe, quality packaged food and beverages.

Evidence shows that giving poor women the means to improve their incomes and the power to make decisions has a catalysing impact within their households, their communities, and beyond. The USAID-funded Leveraging Economic Opportunities (LEO) activity seeks to demonstrate how business practices that are inclusive of women are good for business and social change. This paper provides the rationale that market systems facilitation practitioners can use to engage private sector firms in efforts to empower women.

This handbook introduces the methodology of equity investment based on feedback from investors and entrepreneurs, and suggests a roadmap for the launch of an investment vehicle targeting African small and growing businesses (SGBs). It is intended for African entrepreneurs, and for those either wishing to invest in African SGBs or more broadly interested in the sector of SGB investment in the developing world.