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Systems change: an emerging practice in impact investing

Enclude

Impact investors are increasingly engaging in 'systems practice' to better understand the underlying causes to social and environmental problems and to identify high leverage solutions to advance positive systems change. ...

Gender Equality and Social Inclusion (GESI) Mainstreaming in DFID’s PSD programme in the DRC

Decision Support Unit

DFID's DRC programme has sought to mainstream GESI throughout its programmes. It used programme logframes to incentivise focus on GESI and each project adopted different approaches to mainstreaming and measuring ...

Increasing productivity through an innovative, individual-based agricultural loan

LIFT

Access to finance allows smallholder farmers to purchase improved inputs and services, giving them the chance to graduate from subsistence farming and move up the productivity chain. The LIFT programme ...

Investment Mobilization Platform - a new approach to mobilizing finance for development

Financing for capital investment is critical to accomplishing development objectives – whether in health, agriculture, WASH, etc. But facilitating the flow of such financing has long been a development challenge. ...

Fintech for women: scaling the financial inclusion pyramid in Egypt

Arab Women’s Enterprise Fund's (AWEF) study in Egypt on leveraging 'Fintech' innovations to create meaningful financial solutions for low-income people, especially poor or disadvantaged women.

Private Sector Development in fragile and conflict-affected states

Decision Support Unit (DSU)

This learning brief presents some of the key lessons learned in delivering DFID’s Private Sector Developemnt (PSD) programme in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). It draws on case studies ...

The Annual Regional BDS Conference

On its 13th edition, The Annual Regional BDS Conference remains one of the largest learning platform to advance the practice of market system development and value chain facilitation within East ...

Accelerating Women's Digital Financial Inclusion

Digital technology is key to expanding access to financial services for women. Digital financial services can help improve women’s access to and control over income, savings, and assets. However, across ...

DFID’s Private Sector Development Programme in the DRC

Decision Support Unit (DSU)

DFID's £100 million PSD programme in the DRC seeks to improve the incomes of the poor in an extremely complex, conflict-affected environment. This learning brief summarises the initial design and ...

Navigating the evidence on savings-focused financial inclusion

As part of the Mastercard Foundation Savings Learning Lab, Itad and The SEEP Network developed a searchable, interactive evidence map that provides consolidated access to relevant evidence related to savings-focused ...

Propcom Mai-karfi: lessons learned, 2012–2017

Propcom Mai-karfi

By the end of its initial six-year term 2012–2017, Propcom Mai-karfi had raised the incomes of 665,000 poor rural people across northern Nigeria. This was achieved by engaging with private-sector ...

SG2018: The Power of Savings Groups

The Global Savings Groups Conference Series is a biennial conference that engages a large and diverse community of stakeholders. The event develops and promotes improved standards of practice, mobilises knowledge, ...

Mid-term evaluation of ÉLAN

Decision Support Unit (DSU)

This evaluation aims to identify constraints or risks preventing ÉLAN achieving its objectives - and to recommend corrective actions where required. It found that, despite the weak business environment and ...

Quarterly Sector Reviews: putting adaptive management into practice

Insight into how Enterprise Partners learns from, and adapts, strategies and interventions.

Promoting rural income through support for markets in agriculture

DFAT

Draft progress report and implementing plan for two programmes: Australia Indonesia Partnership for Promoting Rural Income through Support for Markets in Agriculture (AIP-PRISMA) Australia Indonesia Partnership for Strengthening Agricultural Finance ...

Buying into a smallholder harvest

Propcom Mai-karfi

Lack of access to credit, agricultural inputs, extension services and good storage facilities is holding back the potential of farmers in northern Nigeria. Propcom's innovative finance scheme - Raise Out ...

Commercial activities to expand financial services: women

SAFIRA

Strengthening Agricultural Rural Finance in Rural Areas (SAFIRA) is an agricultural value chain finance (VCF) programme. It aims to increase on-farm productivity and reduce poverty by facilitating access to finance ...

ELAN RDC annual report 2017

ELAN RDC

Elan RDC is an MSD programme in the Democratic Republic of Congo. It aims to improve the positioning of poor people in markets - particularly women. It addresses constraints and ...

The women who make rice shine

Propcom Mai-karfi

Empowering women in the rice parboiling business Propcom and its partners worked with more than 4,000 poor rural women to help organise them into groups and form mutually beneficial linkages ...

Leveraging improved land security to improve access to credit

LIFT

Lessons learned from access to finance interventions within the Land Investment for Transformation Programme (LIFT) in Ethiopia. The case study looks at how the programme has enabled the successful design ...