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This report provides case examples and explores how corporations can translate 'Creating Shared Value' into action.

This guide provides an overview of the business case for measuring socio-economic impact; an introduction into the terminology and basic theory used in this space for a business audience; and a list existing tools for business needs. It aims to accelerate business efforts to measure and manage socio-economic impact and to help companies to navigate the complex landscape of socio-economic impact measurement.

This report defines challenge funds and the important factors to consider when designing them. It also looks at the challenges and risks associated with challenge funds and gives very good examples of successful challenge funds that have had a meaningful impact around the world.

This operational guide aims at assisting practitioners and decision-makers engaged in the preparation and implementation of inclusion plans for informal recyclers working at final disposal sites. The key question addressed by this Guide is how to work with informal recyclers and other actors in the development of viable and sustainable solutions that allow informal recyclers affected by solid waste projects, such as the construction, rehabilitation or closure of final disposal sites, to maintain or increase their incomes in improved working conditions. The report in this context gives recommendations for the different phases Pre-preparation-, Preparation and Implementation.

This toolkit provides methodological guidance on assessing the current state of entrepreneurial ecosystems; it offers a set of resources and tools that can be used by development practitioners.

This report highlights the success of the net-metering model in the Philippines, in which consumers are encouraged to buy solar panels to generate savings on their electricity bill, tap into renewable energy and in effect become producers themselves. It discusses how to finance this model, from loans to leasing and gives some examples of how the system has worked in the Philippines.

This report illustrates the challenges and benefits of inclusive recycling. It provides a toolkit which facilitates the integration of gender into recycling projects, and an analysis of women's and men's access to control over and benefit from resources in the recycling sector in Latin America and the Caribbean. It offers practical tools for project design and implementation for project managers which allow to increase the access of poor women to the formal recycling market.

Este estudio presenta un análisis de la cadena de valor del algodón en México, su situación actual, los actores involucrados, los retos, oportunidades y recomendaciones, asi como las experiencias de otros países manejando este producto.

The aim of this document is to provide an introduction to the potential contribution that a social enterprise can make to CARE’s programmatic objectives. It is also hoped that it will provide some general guidance to CARE programme staff embarking on market based development initiatives and considering their progression to a social enterprise.

Energising Development (EnDev) Indonesia’s objective is to support sustainable access to modern energy services for rural communities in Indonesia. This Inspection Guide presents the checklists, measurements form, and KPI questionnaire, as well as explanatory documentation compiled during this programme and adapted to capture essential lessons learnt. It aims at recording the process and making templates available for future inspections by any interested third parties.