How to create an enabling environment for inclusive business

DCED has reviewed more than 100 documents including empirical experience and emerging evidence – not only from inclusive business (IB) but also other private sector development programmes, such as market development, industrial policy or business environment reform. In two pages, DCEDs extensive review of experience and evidences is summarized and presented

2016-09 SDC F2F - Definitions - Social Entrepreneurship

DCED - Report - Creating an enabling environment for Inclusive Business - 2016 - en

Inclusive business support is a growing priority for manydonor and development agencies but views on the most effective support optionsvary. This scoping paper focuses on business environment reform: How canagencies help create an enabling environment for inclusive business in partnercountries? And how, if at all, does this differ from regulatory and policy reformto facilitate private investment in general? In order to help answer thesequestions, this paper summarizes a very large body of emerging evidence, structuringit into key debates for further exploration.

OECD FAO - Guidance - Responsible Agricultural Supply Chains - 2016 (de)

OECD FAO - Guidance - Responsible Agricultural Supply Chains - 2016 (fr)

OECD FAO - Guidance - Responsible Agricultural Supply Chains - 2016 (en)

OECD and FAO have developed this Guidance to help enterprises observe standards of responsible business conduct and undertake due diligence along agricultural supply chains in order to ensure that their operations contribute to sustainable development. The Guidance comprises:
• A model enterprise policy outlining the standards that enterprises should observe to build responsible agricultural supply chains;
• A framework for risk-based due diligence describing the five steps that enterprises should follow to identify, assess, mitigate and account for how they address the adverse impacts of their activities;
• A description of the major risks faced by enterprises and the measures to mitigate these risks;
• Guidance for engaging with indigenous peoples.

OCED Latin America Economic Outlook 2017 - Youth, Skills and Entrepreneurship

The 2017 edition of the Latin American Economic Outlook explores youth, skills and entrepreneurship. Young Latin Americans embody the region’s promise and perils. They stand at the crossroads of a region whose once promising economy and social progress are now undergoing a slow down. The Outlook identifies potential strategies and policy responses to help Latin America and the Caribbean revive economic growth.

20160930 SDC EI F2F Report Prishtina 20-23 Sept (en)

2016-09 SC-Forum Bjoern - Introduction to blended finance for social entrepreneurs and social business

Acumen - Report - Women and Social Enterprises - 2015 (en)

Kauffman Fondation - Study - measuring entrepeneurial ecosystem - 03 - 2015

How do you measure your entrepreneurial ecosystem? How should you interpret the data about your

startup community? What economic indicators should matter for vibrancy and growth? These questions

come up repeatedly in conversations with entrepreneurs, program heads, event organizers, investors,

policymakers, and others. The frequency of these queries reflects the phenomenon: With the rapid

spread of efforts to build entrepreneurial ecosystems, it’s only natural to wonder what outcomes should

be tracked. And, what you track depends on what you’re trying to achieve.

CSS - Fundamentals of Modern Philanthropy - 2014

ODI - Working Paper - Mixing Business and Social - 2013 (en)

This Working Paper seeks to clarify what is a social enterprise in a developing country context. It is written from a broad public interest perspective rather than one of an investor in such enterprises. We review some of the alternative descriptions in the literature to offer a relatively narrow definition, combining the primacy of the enterprise’s social intent with robust financial viability thresholds. We then propose a rough-and ready questionnaire tool and scoring scale that tries to locate candidate enterprises on these twin axes of social impact and financial sustainability. We apply this tool to a first small batch of relatively well-known cases, and then draw some preliminary lessons as to its potential wider applicability. We conclude that this modest effort illustrates both the difficulties and the value of clarifying concepts and definitions, and suggest it be extended to broader portfolios of candidate enterprises to refine the methodology.

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Brick by Brick - The Herculean Task of Cleaning up the Asian Brick Industry

This case study tells the story of cleaning up the Asian brick industry by introducing the Vertical Shaft Brick Kiln (VSBK). The brick and construction industry holds an enormous energy-saving potential that is of tremendous relevance to climate change. In addition, this new technology can also change the lot of the millions of poor workers in this sector. Introducing better technologies and social standards is a win-win situation for the workers, for the environment and for the society as a whole.