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  Nudging The Investment Ecosystem By Incentivizing Impact

  PUBLISHED: June, 2018

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  Intellecap Lighthouse: An anthology of ideas and insights

  PUBLISHED: June, 2018

  Tags: Entrepreneurship, Innovation, Gender, Multi-sector

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  Catalyst for Change: Creating an ecosystem for young entrepreneurs from East Africa

  PUBLISHED: June, 2018

  Tags: Health, Energy, Agriculture, Livelihoods

  Region: Africa

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  5TH SANKALP AFRICA SUMMIT – POST EVENT REPORT

  PUBLISHED: April, 2018

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

  Region: Africa

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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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Nudging The Investment Ecosystem By Incentivizing Impact
PUBLISHED: June, 2018
Opportunities in Incentivizing Impact in Financing Small and Growing Businesses in Developing & Emerging Markets
This paper is a summary of fresh ideas on how to channel more capital into impact investing and incentivize impact creation. Building on insights generated by experts at the BMZ hosted conference Financing Global Development – Leveraging Impact Investing for the SDGs, the paper furthers the conversation on Impact Measurement and Management, IMM 2.0, through brainstorming practical ideas and viewpoints in the impact investing value chain: those who provide capital, those who manage it, and those who receive it. This included close to 50 stakeholders, including fund managers, DFIs, intermediaries, entrepreneurs, governments, CSOs and others.
The discussion, conducted in the form of a ‘design lab’ by Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH, Intellecap, and the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC), aims to start a conversation on how to maximize impact by channeling capital into small and growing businesses (SGBs) as a way to expedite achievement of SDGs (Sustainable Development Goals). During the session, industry leaders like FMO, Vox Capital, and Roots of Impact had shared case studies of good practices in incentivizing impact along the investment chain. This formed the basis of brainstorming on development of new ideas on innovative instruments that could nudge the ecosystem towards more actively pursuing and scaling impact.
The result is an analysis of the barriers in the impact investment value chain highlighted during the stakeholder conversations, and key insights on how to overcome them (for example, the need for transparency, standardization, leadership, etc.). In addition, the workshop collated a list of potential ‘wild ideas’ to like impact currency, impact rewards, impact index, online market places for impact auctioning, and a give-back distribution impact support system, designed to incentivize increased levels of investment along the value chain. The practical approaches suggested by stakeholders fit well with the existing impact measurement and monitoring frameworks like GIIN’s IRIS and Intellecap’s PRISM and hold the potential to guide impact capital more efficiently by leveraging good practices.
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Intellecap Lighthouse: An anthology of ideas and insights
PUBLISHED: June, 2018
Intellecap has been at the forefront of developing insights and shaping new ideas that have benefited
and empowered underserved markets since its inception in 2002.
Along the course of it’s journey, the organization has taken bold initiatives to foray into uncharted
territory and become a key influencer as part of the social impact discourse.
Intellecap has made concerted efforts through its advisory team to capture the most relevant themes
across its key focus sectors, namely Agriculture, Livelihoods, Financial Services, Healthcare and Energy,
and distil them into concrete thought pieces that lend credibility and offer definitive solutions across
key stakeholder groups.
The Intellecap Lighthouse is a culmination of various perspectives and insights from its thought
leaders on topics that demand our attention today, and trends that will capture our imagination in the
future.
Be it the Uberization of financial services, approaches for solving healthcare challenges in low resource
settings, the potential for Agtech in Southeast Asia, or a Special Series collaboration on India in 2050.
This caravan of articles and ideas is meant to help you gain newer insights from the impact sectors
and draw inspiration from the ecosystem we serve. Written by employees both old and new, many of
them have been published by reputed print media, and serve as a testimony to its relevance while being
engaging in thought and appeal.
You can now download this booklet, available in a simple PDF format, and navigate through its myriad
scope of contents. You can also directly go to an article/sector of your choice by clicking on the title in
the index page.
We’ve tried our best to ensure this compilation serves as a useful means of reference and information,
and that with time, The Intellecap Lighthouse will be regarded as a critical piece of commentary on the
state of affairs in the markets we serve, or aspire to serve.
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Catalyst for Change: Creating an ecosystem for young entrepreneurs from East Africa
PUBLISHED: June, 2018
Intellecap is a pioneer in providing innovative business solutions that help build and scale profitable and sustainable enterprises
dedicated to social and environmental change. The company’s unique positioning at the intersection of social and commercial business
sectors allows it to attract and nurture intellectual capital that combines the business training of the commercial world with the passion
and commitment of the social world to shape distinctive solutions. Intellecap was founded in 2002 and has more than 100 employees.
Intellecap has worked with more than 60 clients on over 250 engagements across 15 countries.
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5TH SANKALP AFRICA SUMMIT – POST EVENT REPORT
PUBLISHED: April, 2018
“The 5th Edition of the Sankalp Africa Summit positively engaged over 1,000 different stakeholders, across the Impact Investing Ecosystem, and deliberated on strategies for building partnerships and collaborations to drive the sustainability and inclusion agenda in Africa. With 100 + Speakers, 30+ Partners, 60+ Sessions and delegates from over 40 countries, it truly was a summit to reckon with, trending at Top 5 on Twitter.
This year’s theme, ‘Open Alliance for a Sustainable & Inclusive Africa 2030’, revolved around the Sustainable Development Goals and how various partners can work with the private sector to achieve these goals. The summit highlighted what has been achieved so far and delved deeper into the untapped opportunities presented by the SDGs in Africa for the entrepreneurs, corporates and the development community.
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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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