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Posted By Administration,
Monday, April 1, 2019
Updated: Friday, March 29, 2019
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Just Good Investing: Why Gender Matters to Your Portfolio and What You Can Do About It
by Najada Kumbuli, Leigh Moran and Jenn Pryce
Calvert Impact Capital found two reasons for the lack of action in incorporating gender equity into inclusive impact investing markets: 1.) the business case for incorporating gender in investment decisions needs to be strengthened from a private markets perspective and 2.) investors are confused about how to incorporate gender into their process and analysis. They wrote this report to address these two issues and share practical guidance for creating a gender inclusive investment strategy, learned from evolving their own gender-lens investment approach.
Read full report here.
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gender
gender lens investing
impact investing
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Thursday, March 28, 2019
Updated: Wednesday, March 27, 2019
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Scaling Access to Finance for Early-Stage Enterprises in Emerging Markets: Lessons from the Field
Commissioned on behalf of: Dutch Good Growth Fund (DGGF) / Investment funds local SMEs
The report seeks to explore how to improve the scalability and viability of early-stage finance provision, thereby reducing the need for philanthropic capital and subsidies to the local providers of finance and support to early-stage enterprises. To this end, DGGF used a landscape exercise to define and prioritize “archetypes of early-stage finance provision” as the focus of this report. They selected business accelerators, business angel networks and venture capital funds - as three key archetypical models - as the main models to be studied in more detail, together with the broader category of supplemental “non-traditional” debt options. They selected and studied 15 early-stage finance providers in detail. They discussed their initial findings from the in-depth research with 40 field-builders in a workshop during which participants shared experiences, insights and perspectives, and helped to challenge emerging conclusions and identify key points of attention to address in finalizing the report.
Read full report here.
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early stage ecosystem; impact investing; scaling
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Posted By Administration,
Friday, February 22, 2019
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How Investment Can Unlock the Potential of Refugees
by John Kluge, Timothy Docking, Ph.D., and Joanna Ke Edelman
The Refugee Investment Network (RIN) is the first impact investing and blended finance collaborative dedicated to creating long-term solutions to global forced migration. The RIN is a specialized investment intermediary that facilitates the movement of capital.
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2019
capacity development
impact investing
Refugee Investment Network
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Posted By Administration,
Friday, February 15, 2019
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Specialty Coffee Transaction Guide
by Transparent Trade Coffe (Emory University)
As volatile commodity prices continue to hover at historically low levels, industry leaders at various points along the supply chain are talking about the need to buffer the women and men who grow specialty coffees from price references that come from commodity markets.
This project relies on a progressive group of data donors – exporters, importers, roasters, and other support organizations – who provide detailed contract data covering specialty coffee transactions from recent harvests. Researchers at Emory University use this anonymized information to create tables that describe the distributions of recent prices for green (unroasted) specialty coffees.
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2019
Emory University
Sustainable Ag
Transparent Trade Coffee
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Friday, February 15, 2019
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Digital Pathways for Youth in Agriculture
by Mercy Corps AgriFin Accelerate
What do we know about young African farmers today? What support do they need to drive change and growth in African agriculture? AFA interviewed 23 young farmers across 10 villages in two Kenyan counties to more fully understand their financial and agricultural portfolios, needs, and outlooks. What they found were key variations in capacities and aspirations across sub-segments of young farmers – suggesting a need to customize supports and services to fit different youth persona profiles.
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2019
AFApublication
Africa
Agriculture
Mercy Corps
Sustainable Ag
Youth
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Monday, February 4, 2019
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Social Entrepreneurship at the Margins
by Thane Kreiner, PhD and Marie Haller
Last year, Miller Center accompanied 18 early-stage social enterprises led by or dedicated to serving refugees, migrants, and trafficking survivors in their pioneering Social Entrepreneurship at the Margins (SEM) accelerator program. This report illustrates the clear and urgent need for bottom-up, enterprise level approaches, and highlights organizations that are already addressing these challenges in innovative ways.
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2019
Miller Center for Social Entrepreneurship
Social entrepreneurship
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Posted By Administration,
Monday, February 4, 2019
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Project Sage 2.0: Tracking Venture Capital With a Gender Lens
by Suzanne Biegel, Sandra M. Hunt, and Sherryl Kuhlman
This gender lens investing report offers a global scan of gender lens private equity, venture capital, and private debt funds. Read more in the report about key insights on the current state of the field.
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2019
gender inclusion
social impact
UPenn publication
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Posted By Administration,
Monday, February 4, 2019
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Scaling up MENA SMEs: How a Handful of Firms can Fastforward Economic Growth
by Mahoumad Makki, Alice Klat, Melissa Rizk, Amr Goussous, and Reem Goussous
This report identifies the value of and support necessary to assist SMEs in scaling up in their local markets across the Middle East and North Africa. It further identifies priority support areas for policymakers including business fundamentals, business propellers, demand creators and country readiness that, when appropriately addressed, can propel local economic growth.
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2019
East Africa
Endeavor publication
North Africa
smes
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Friday, February 1, 2019
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Expanding Financial Capability in Colombia

by the Center for Financial Inclusion, Accion
This report describes the processes and successes of workshops conducted by the Center for Financial Inclusion at Accion (CFI) with policymakers and practitioners in Colombia, as well as recommendations for replicating the workshops more broadly. These trainings were intended to assist in Colombia’s efforts to more effectively increase financial capability in the country, and particularly highlight proven behavioral insights that differentiate the programs from the more traditional endeavors.
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2019
CFI publication
Colombia
financial inclusion
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Tuesday, January 29, 2019
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By Genesis Analytics and Impact Amplifier
Through the Catalyst Fund for Impact Measurement in Africa, supported by the United Kingdom’s Department for International Development (DFID), the Aspen Network of Development Entrepreneurs (ANDE) South Africa chapter commissioned Genesis Analytics and Impact Amplifier to conduct research into the impact measurement and management (IMM) landscape in South Africa. Mixed research methods were used to engage investors, intermediaries and investees in South Africa. The infographic presents key findings in an interactive format, accompanied by supplementary guide. These publications explore the current IMM landscape in South Africa, why and how impact is measured, the benefits and challenges of measurement and management, and how the data is used and reported. Through this publication, the authors and funders of this study aim to catalyse conversations and action, towards strengthening IMM practices in South Africa.
Click here for the supplementary guide
Click here for the infographic
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2019
ANDE publication
impact evaluation
metrics
Metrics and Research
sector publication
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