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  Private sector solutions to helping smallholders succeed : social enterprise business models in the agriculture sector

  PUBLISHED: March, 2018

  Tags: Agriculture, Value Chain, Entrepreneurship

  Region: Asia

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  FINTREK: Exploring new frontiers in fintech investments in East Africa 2018

  PUBLISHED: March, 2018

  Tags: Financial Services

  Region: Africa

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  Reducing post-harvest losses in India: Key initiatives and opportunities

  PUBLISHED: February, 2018

  Tags: Agriculture, Entrepreneurship

  Region: Asia

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  9th Sankalp Global Summit : Post Event Report

  PUBLISHED: February, 2018

  Tags: Access, Affordable, Entrepreneurship, Innovation, Health, Agriculture, Financial Services, Livelihoods, Energy, Strategy Alliances

  Region: Asia

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  Reaching the last mile : social enterprise business models for inclusive development

  PUBLISHED: January, 2018

  Tags: Entrepreneurship

  Region: Asia, Africa

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  Innovations for Scaling Green Sectors A new report from infoDev Climate: InfoDev and Intellecap

  PUBLISHED: September, 2017

  Tags: Financial Services, Health, Energy, Livelihoods, Agriculture, Entrepreneurship

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  2018 India: End line Evaluation of GARIMA Project in Uttar Pradesh (2013-2016) for UNICEF

  PUBLISHED: June, 2017

  Tags: NRMC

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  2016 India: Energising Panchayats for Better Child Governance in Tamil Nadu; an end line process and outcome evaluation

  PUBLISHED: June, 2017

  Tags: NRMC

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  Monitoring & Evaluation for Clean Energy Access

  PUBLISHED: June, 2017

  Tags: Monitoring and Evaluation, Energy, Access

  Region: Asia

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  Innovative Financing for Clean Energy Access

  PUBLISHED: June, 2017

  Tags: Energy, Access, Affordability

  Region: Asia

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Private sector solutions to helping smallholders succeed : social enterprise business models in the agriculture sector
PUBLISHED: March, 2018
Smallholder farmers in developing countries face tough challenges to their productivity, growth, and sustainability—including lack of access to affordable financial products, limited knowledge of high-quality inputs, low usage of technology and market data, and poor market links across the value chain. To close these gaps and help smallholder farmers thrive, social enterprises are implementing innovative solutions in the agriculture sector to serve them. Social enterprises are defined as private for-profit, nonprofit, or hybrid organizations that use business methods to advance their social mission. In the case of agriculture, social enterprises often address a particular pain point in the value chain, with the intention that the cost of their services or products will be recuperated by the benefits and income gains that smallholders will achieve. To serve such a “last mile” market, social enterprises will often develop a business model that is innovative, cost-effective, and provides strong value for money in providing quality services and products.The purpose of this book is to showcase the market-based solutions that have proven effective at supporting smallholders and to synthesize the experiences of social enterprises around the world. This book catalogues more than 100 social enterprises, categorized into 9 business models, that cut across the agriculture value chain
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FINTREK: Exploring new frontiers in fintech investments in East Africa 2018
PUBLISHED: March, 2018
PREFACE: With the rapid mobile penetration in emerging economies, FinTech may easily be the buzz word or the flavor of this decade.
While FinTech refers to firms leveraging technology to deliver financial products/services or capabilities to customers or other
financial services firms, it has also carved out its distinct offering to create a full-fledged sector group, complete with its own
service providers, accelerators and market. Once a conduit of the traditional financial service sector, today, FinTech holds
its own as a mainstay service sector.
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Reducing post-harvest losses in India: Key initiatives and opportunities
PUBLISHED: February, 2018
Intellecap, supported by the Rockefeller Foundation, conducted in-depth research over a period of 5 months on key areas of momentum around post-harvest losses (PHL) in India. This report synthesizes insights from this research and presents the important roles the government, civil society organizations (CSO) and the private sector play in addressing PHL and improving smallholder farmer (SHF) livelihoods.
The report is divided into four main sections dedicated to key phases in the post-harvest value chain. These include harvesting and primary processing; storage and crop protection; processing; and market linkage.
Each section presents an overview of sector-specific activities and identifies key factors affecting PHL, important trends and innovations, as well as opportunities and white spaces to generate social impact. An additional section covers insights around different aggregation models and mechanisms that agriculture sector actors can leverage to reduce PHL and strengthen SHF market access.
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9th Sankalp Global Summit : Post Event Report
PUBLISHED: February, 2018
The Sustainable Development Goals have mobilized companies,
governments and civil society in a cross-sector collaborative
manner that we have never seen before. But the question
remains: will we attain the SDGs by 2030? Importantly, what
impact will they have on quality of life for those currently lacking
access to basic needs? Can quality of life become a human right
with social defaults that ensure physical and mental well-being?
What are the choices that we must make today to ensure this?
At this year’s Sankalp Global Summit, held on December 7-8,
2017 in Mumbai, we set out to answer some of these important
questions. The conference theme focused on issues around
“Social Defaults”, the notion that we must deliberately work to
ensure all people are guaranteed access to education, health,
food, and good work as foundational human rights.
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Reaching the last mile : social enterprise business models for inclusive development
PUBLISHED: January, 2018
Bringing essential services to the poor, whether in remote rural areas, provincial towns, or in the slums of megacities, is a great challenge for governments in developing countries. Lack of governmental capacity and fiscal resources at the national and local levels prevents effective public provision of water, power, education, and health services to the poor. And private firms, which often step in to serve the middle and upper classes, are dissuaded by high risks and low affordability from providing these services to the poor, or what is sometimes referred to as “the last mile.” In contrast, social enterprises have been able to provide basic goods and services to the poor. This is the gap that the present book aims to fill. It catalogues over 40 of the most effective market-based solutions for service delivery to the poor brought about by social enterprises. It tracks how stylized business models have been developed to address development challenges. The sectors covered are education, energy, health, waste, water, sanitation, and finance. The book’s analysis employs and greatly benefits from systematically applying a common framework that helps explain the relevance and implementation of the model for even general development practitioners.
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Innovations for Scaling Green Sectors A new report from infoDev Climate: InfoDev and Intellecap
PUBLISHED: September, 2017
Green sectors, such as renewable energy and sustainable agriculture, are the key to realizing sustainable growth. The economic potential is significant: Investment in green sectors in developing countries is expected to reach $6.4 trillion over the coming decade, with $1.6 trillion of that investment accessible to small and medium-sized enterprises. But what does it take to promote the growth of these sectors?
This study analyzes the common challenges that have limited the scaling of green enterprises and competitive green sectors in developing countries. It also uncovers and catalogs new opportunities that offer the potential for scale-up and growth.
The study enabled by Intellecap, focuses on enterprises operating across five green sectors—climate-smart agriculture, renewable energy, solid waste management, drinking water purification and management, and wastewater management. Within these five areas, the study takes a deeper dive into seven subsectors that provide an interesting mix of business models, offer insights for other subsectors, and highlight innovative responses to the common challenges that green sectors face.
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2018 India: End line Evaluation of GARIMA Project in Uttar Pradesh (2013-2016) for UNICEF
PUBLISHED: June, 2017
UNICEF is committed to the dissemination of lessons learned. This database contains completed evaluations, evaluation programmes, evaluation management responses and other evaluation-related activities that are in compliance with UNICEF Evaluation Reports Standards (2017).
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2016 India: Energising Panchayats for Better Child Governance in Tamil Nadu; an end line process and outcome evaluation
PUBLISHED: June, 2017
UNICEF is committed to the dissemination of lessons learned. This database contains completed evaluations, evaluation programmes, evaluation management responses and other evaluation-related activities that are in compliance with UNICEF Evaluation Reports Standards (2017).
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Monitoring & Evaluation for Clean Energy Access
PUBLISHED: June, 2017
This publication by Intellecap in partnership with Shakti Sustainable Energy Foundation is a pre-cursor to a comprehensive Monitoring & Evaluation platform being developed to standardize performance measurement in the DRE sector. The framework presented in the publication attempts to facilitate more informed decision-making for investors, lenders, and donors by developing relevant metrics and benchmarks around these for comparison with industry aggregated data. The metrics and benchmarks are being developed for specific sub-segments within DRE including standalone systems and mini-grids.
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Innovative Financing for Clean Energy Access
PUBLISHED: June, 2017
This publication by Intellecap in partnership with Shakti Sustainable Energy Foundation, New Delhi reviews the financing needs of Decentralized Renewable Energy (DRE) enterprises across various growth stages as well as business models and explores the design of alternative structures to seal the gaps in the prevailing Indian scenario. DRE enterprises in India, particularly those involved in rural electrification as Energy service companies (ESCOs), face challenges in accessing finance on account of high-risk perception and low overall returns with longer paybacks. The absence of suitable financing and capital that is high-risk low-return has limited the wide scale impact these enterprises have on low-income populations by enabling access to clean energy and generating livelihood options using energy as the enabler.
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