Profit with Purpose: How Women-Inclusive Business Practices Drive SME Success

  • Partner: USAID Feed the Future Market Systems and Partnerships (MSP), DAI, Williams Davidson Institute
  • Publication Type: Blog
  • Date: July 18, 2024

This blog from Business Fights Poverty examines how inclusive investments advance growth for SMEs and explores insights from the Women-Inclusive Return on Investment case study series.

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Closing the Gap: A Synthesis Report on the Cases for the ROI of Women’s Inclusion

  • Partner: USAID Feed the Future Market Systems and Partnerships (MSP), DAI, Williams Davidson Institute
  • Publication Type: Case Study
  • Date: April 24, 2024

This synthesis report in the Women-Inclusive Return on Investment series showcases promising models of women-inclusive investments and summarizes case study findings to support further understanding and implementation.

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Learning Note: Navigating Firm Selection for Women-Inclusive ROI

  • Partner: USAID Feed the Future Market Systems and Partnerships (MSP), DAI, Williams Davidson Institute
  • Publication Type: Case Study
  • Date: March 25, 2024

This learning note in the Women-Inclusive Return on Investment series provides key insights MSP gained from the process of vetting and selecting companies for WI-ROI.

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Workplace Innovation: Okeba’s Return on Investment in Childcare

  • Partner: USAID Feed the Future Market Systems and Partnerships (MSP), DAI, Williams Davidson Institute
  • Publication Type: Case Study
  • Date: March 25, 2024

This second case study in the Women-Inclusive Return on Investment series examines how Okeba, a Ugandan agribusiness, provided care support to its staff and ultimately reduced costs.

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Strategic Inclusion: Grean World’s Financial Returns of Targeting Women in The Last Mile

  • Partner: USAID Feed the Future Market Systems and Partnerships (MSP), DAI, Williams Davidson Institute
  • Publication Type: Case Study
  • Date: January 17, 2024

This first case study in the Women-Inclusive Return on Investment series examines the impact of Grean World’s successful shift from a centralized sales model to one that prioritized female village-based sales agents.

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ICTforAg Webinar: Learning from an Ex-Post Study & Investments in Agricultural Digitization in Senegal

  • Partner: USAID Feed the Future Market Systems and Partnerships (MSP), DAI, ICTforAg
  • Publication Type: Webinar
  • Date: December 11, 2023

This webinar examines the durability of program investments in digitalization by small-scale rice farmers under Naatal Mbay’s introduction of an integrated finance model (IFM) in Senegal’s domestic rice sector, three and a half years after program closure.

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Women-Inclusive Return on Investment (WI-ROI) Framework

  • Partner: USAID Feed the Future Market Systems and Partnerships (MSP)
  • Publication Type: Learning Brief
  • Date: November 14, 2022

The new Women-Inclusive Return on Investment (WI-ROI) Framework builds on an existing body of evidence and research around the business case for investing in women’s inclusion. It also reflects the industry outlook on women’s inclusion at the firm level and highlights successful business strategies to achieve financial impact from investment in women’s inclusion.

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Feed the Future Inova Business Cases

  • Partner: USAID, DAI
  • Publication Type: Business Cases
  • Date: February 10, 2022

The USAID Mozambique Feed the Future Agricultural Innovations Activity (FTF Inova), implemented by DAI in partnership with MSA, developed six business cases to offer tangible proof that enterprises can profit from investing in addressing challenges experienced by smallholder farmers. The business cases cover three themes: supply chain management; input distribution networks; and support services. Each business case summarizes the prevailing business model being applied, the new opportunity, what options were explored, the value proposition for smallholders and others, the timeline, return on investment, recommendations, and risks going forward.

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Investment Climate Reform Toolbox

  • Partner: Investment Climate Reform Facility (ICR Facility)
  • Publication Type: Toolkit
  • Date: September 2, 2021

The Investment Climate Reform Toolbox (ICR) Toolbox is written for policy-makers and the business membership organizations in African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) countries and beyond, and is designed to respond to common challenges faced by those working to develop a business environment for a thriving, inclusive, and sustainable private sector.

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The Return on Investment of Social Inclusion: An Evidence Gap Analysis from Developing Countries

  • Partner: USAID
  • Publication Type: Brief
  • Date: August 16, 2021

This brief analyzes the existing literature from developing countries on how firms invest in social inclusion and measure its return on investment. It then analyzes existing evidence gaps and makes recommendations on how firms and USAID partners working in private sector engagement and market systems development can improve their investments and fill evidence gaps.

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