Case Studies

Boosting On-Site Sanitation in Urban Kenya and Nigeria: Four Consumer Realities

To be able to adequately meet the challenge of sanitation, it is critical for the design and implementation of on-site sanitation systems to understand and account for consumer preferences. Dalberg’s research within poor urban communities points to four lived realities that on-site sanitation providers need to consider before design and rolling out their products globally
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Professionalising African Motorcycle Taxis: From Vitamins to Painkillers

Rwanda-based motorcycle taxi company SafeMotos is taking the app-based transport service idea, made famous by Uber, a step further by ensuring its product is based on the local needs of both passengers and drivers. SafeMotos joined Business Call to Action with a pledge to ensure more female drivers; to reduce road accidents and to increase incomes.
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Investing In The Energy Transition

The Private Financing Advisory Network (PFAN) bridges the gap between investors and entrepreneurs. It identifies promising clean energy projects at an early stage and provides no-cost coaching and investment facilitation. When in place, these measures make it easier for investors to understand a project’s potential, increasing the odds that they will make an investment.
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Sweet Dreams Coming True For Syrian Refugees

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Formal Finance and Informal Groups: Inside the Black Box

A successful business case for linkages must offer something useful to all involved parties. This means looking ‘inside the black box’ of different mindsets: the bank or microfinance institution, the fintech or platform provider; and the informal savings groups. As well as figuring out how to build long-term relationships between the complexities of these diverse mindsets.
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Mapping Lives with Refugees

How the Poverty Stoplight, a social innovation that activates the potential of people to assess and eliminate poverty in their families and communities through a self-evaluation tech tool, can help provide more stable and conducive environments for refugees.
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Sustainability Standards Embrace GIS Technology

ISEAL Alliance, who represent the global movement of sustainability standards, share insights on the exponential growth of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) for sustainability and how this integrative technology is enabling standards to deliver a more tailored approach to compliance and capacity building, making certification more accessible to smallholders.
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Virtual Exchange: Students Collaborate to Tackle Social Enterprise Challenges in the Middle East

The M²GATE Virtual exchange program pairs students from Michigan & the Middle East to take on social enterprise challenges. Together they collaborate to identify a social problem in the region and come up with an entrepreneurial solution.
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Why Retailers are Uniting to Tackle Climate Change

The British Retail Consortium (BRC) explains how some of the UK’s leading retailers are coming together to strengthen the industry’s response to environmental challenges. Recognising that scale is essential to drive change, the BRC and has come together under the new initiative Better Retail, Better World, to build a better, more prosperous and sustainable world.
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Engaging the Private Sector for Development Results in Indonesia

Nilmini Rubin, Vice President for International Development at Tetra Tech in Jakarta, Indonesia, shares how MCC-funded projects are engaging the private sector in cocoa production and other industries to achieve better development results.
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Successful Businesswoman Inspires Entrepreneurs in Tanzania

With support from the UNIDO trade sector development programme in Tanzania, Fatma Riyami, Managing Director of NatureRipe Kilimanjaro and East African Businesswoman of the Year, grew her business rapidly, achieving an annual turnover of half a million US dollars and has gone on to inspire other women entrepreneurs in Tanzania
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Women Working to Improve Sanitation and Hygiene

In the peri-urban areas of Maputo women are playing a key role in tackling the sanitation challenge. Poorly managed shared facilities have a major impact on women’s lives. As part of the WSUP programme in the city, women are playing a leading role in tackling the sanitation and hygiene challenge in their communities
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Women Sea Salt Producers in Indonesia Cooperate to Seize New Economic Opportunities

MCC’s investments in Indonesia are helping to empower women salt producers to increase the quantity and quality of salt production to boost incomes. The women are benefiting from labor-reducing and energy-efficient technologies as well as training programs aimed at improving salt-making skills, financial management, marketing and more.
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Virtual Reality Training in Southern Africa

New technology fills a gap that many governments and training institutions in Africa are struggling to bridge: the need for more skilled workers. Virtual reality training can offer opportunities in a number of fields, giving people access to knowledge which can be used to improve their lives.
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A Nigérien Entrepreneur Finds Her Niche in Camel Milk

MCC’s $437 million five-year compact to strengthen agriculture sector entered into force in January. The compact will focus on improving access to water for agriculture and livestock and expanding access to markets. In this blog post, we profile Wouro Habsatou Aboubacar, who runs a camel farm outside of Niamey.
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Female Employees Fast Tracked From Line Workers to Supervisors

Bangladeshi garment company DBL Group are supporting career progression of its female employees through an accelerated leadership training programme. They share their experience of implementing the programme and the positive impact it’s had on both female employees and the business.
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A New Age of Startups: How Tunisia’s Millennial Entrepreneurs Are Boosting the Economy

The will of the young people of Tunisia to find solutions and innovate is clear. UNIDO’s Mashrou3i is empowering this generation to overcome the education and employment gap. Read more about this new age of startups and how Tunisia’s millennial entrepreneurs are boosting the economy.
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The Counter-intuitive Nature of ‘recovery’ Lending

What happens when disaster strikes a community that is depending on microfinance for its credit requirements? VisionFund believe the greatest benefit is seen when aid and recovery lending working together. Aid supports people at their most vulnerable, whilst the recovery lending stimulates productive economic activity.
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Growing Small Businesses Through Employee Volunteering

In 2016 Citi partnered with Balloon Ventures and VSO to launch the Volunteer Africa programme, where bankers work with high potential micro businesses in East Africa, providing support and advice to help them grow. Balloon’s insight and impact team reflect on progress made and lessons learned.
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Supporting Entrepreneurs in the Pursuit of Peace

Bpeace is a nonprofit that matches business experts with entrepreneurs in challenged economies, to help them grow their businesses and generate jobs. In this story Bpeace share some successful examples of connecting experts with growing businesses and how they believe that more jobs means more peace.
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