Enabling the entrepreneurial ecosystem to create
sustainable livelihoods and promote gender equality
SMEs represent about 90% of businesses and over 50% employment globally, and contribute ~70% of the formal jobs in emerging markets, making these enterprises a high development priority. Further, incorporating gender diversity in operations can improve profitability as well as boost productivity of enterprises.
However, the access to finance gap for MSMEs coupled with limited workforce participation of women, impedes enterprise growth and socio-economic upliftment of women across emerging economies. We work with the public and private sector to scale up small enterprises and enable access to inclusive employment and entrepreneurial opportunities in these markets.
Our Areas of Intervention
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Gender Financing
Work with capital providers and ecosystem enablers to channel capital and BDS with a gender lens
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Gender integration
Undertake organizational and programmatic gender audits and design gender action plans
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Enabling small enterprises
Create strategic knowledge on MSMEs (like landscape analysis, business models, state of financing) and provide technical assistance, market-linkage and investment readiness support to build and scale enterprises
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Convening
Facilitate dialogues and engage ecosystem stakeholders to promote gender-inclusive employment and entrepreneurship opportunities in the Global South
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Capital Sourcing
Raising equity, debt, grant and facilitating M&As
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Impact investing ecosystems
Work with regional and global impact investing stakeholders to assess and enable ecosystem development
OUR CREDENTIALS
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CLEAN ENERGY AND AGTECH SOLUTIONS
- Business planning and scale-up strategies for clean energy enterprises
- Market research and sizing studies for off-grid clean energy market in Africa and Asia
- Enterprise development support to clean energy and ag-tech enterprises on aspects related to market-entry strategy, business plan and model development, financial modelling and investment readiness support
- Roadmaps on applicability and scaling of appliances for productive use of energy
- Strategic plans/models to promote deployment of low carbon technologies and increase their adoption
Climate Finance
- Innovative financing structure design and development like blended finance facility to support and scale the solar energy sector across Africa, Impact Monetization Fund, blended finance mechanism for e-mobility solutions etc.
- Approaches for climate risk mainstreaming to be incorporated by financial institutions and enterprises
- Framework design of climate finance tools like climate impact bonds for India, climate finance fund at the state level, ESG fund, carbon fund etc.
- Climate finance investment landscape assessments across Asia and Africa
NET ZERO STRATEGIES AND ESG
- ESG strategy and roadmap (planning as well as Implementation) development for funds and corporates
- ESG strategy and roadmap (planning as well as Implementation) development for funds and corporates
- Analysis and evaluation of companies on their ESG performance
- Net zero strategy preparation for corporates across sectors like agriculture, transport and FMCG
- Framework and methodological design for investors to maximize their contribution for achievement of net zero
- Tool and framework development for measuring GHG emissions and MRV protocols
Agriculture Development
- Pilots on digitization of agriculture value chains across India and value chain development/assessment studies across Asia and Africa
- Business planning and marketing/branding strategy development for agriculture enterprises for different value chains like tea, bamboo processing, poultry, cotton etc.
- Technical assistance for development of agriculture production clusters across varied states of India
- Livelihood intervention design and implementation for smallholder farmers in India
- Platform design and launch to enable transitioning of farmers to circular agriculture practices
Agriculture Landscape Studies
- Evaluation of landscape of enterprises in India’s post-harvest value chain
- Identification of 150+ enterprises (digital and non-digital) in the agriculture sector across the Global South
- Landscape assessment of agriculture enterprises across India and evaluation of 100+ business models across value chains and geographies to support evidence-based decision making in the sector
- Investment analysis documenting $105+ million in 35 deals for high-scale agriculture enterprises in India
- Development of investible pipelines of agriculture enterprises and facilitation of transactions
- Innovation challenge design and implementation
Our Impact Map
