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What support is available from others.

A variety of sources of support have emerged to help entrepreneurs successfully start and scale inclusive business models.These are in addition to the normal business support services that are commercially available to any business.
The Business Innovation Facility provides technical assistance to inclusive businesses in India, Bangladesh, Malawi, Zambia, Nigeria, while Innovations Against Poverty provides financial assistance to inclusive businesses in any low income countries. But these are just two amongst the many types of support. Other types of support for inclusive business include:
IMPACT INVESTMENT

Impact investment and patient capital are investments made into companies, organisations and funds with the intention of generating measurable social and environmental impact alongside a financial return.

Impact investments target a range of returns from below market to market rate, depending upon the circumstances.
DONOR PARTNERSHIP PROGRAMMES

Such programmes aim to partner with businesses in promoting private sector and economic development as well as achieving commercial goals of the business partners. They may provide finance, technical support, or partnership. Take a closer look at partnerships on our know-how page.
TOOLS, TRAINING  AND NETWORKS
There are a host of resources that provide support to entrepreneurs – see a selected listing below. To learn more, view the related links for each.
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Impact investment
ImpactAssets List of Top 50 Funds: a searchable database of global impact investment funds. Aimed at investors but helpful to entrepreneurs searching for funds that invest in specific geographic or focus areas.
Global Impact Investing Network (GIIN) :an organisation dedicated to increasing the scale and effectiveness of impact investing, GIIN provides a useful list of links on impact investing news sites and resources.
Donor partnership programmes
DCED Directory of Donor Programmes: a set of web pages designed to help companies quickly find a donor programme that offers funds, technical advice, or are specific to one country.
Support, tools and resources for entrepreneurs
Practitioner Hub Resources : checklists, tools, snapshot, events and more resources for entrepreneurs produced by the Business Innovation Facility and Innovations Against Poverty, based on current project experience.
BCtA Resource Guides
Comprehensive lists of funding, tools and other resources for inclusive businesses in the agriculture, energy and health sectors.
The Inclusive Business Challenge
An easy-to-use presentation and simulation tool to help companies and stakeholders identify and implement IB models.
See also
Where can I find out more? With further links to online resources and excellent information on inclusive business.
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Inclusive Business
Mapping of Tools & Resources: a list of key publicly-available tools and resources that support the initiation, development and scaling of inclusive business models.
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