I am sharing see the latest Impact Report summarising some recent ADP projects and viewpoints on key organisational and programmatic challenges in the sector. There are summaries for the key domains - Health, Education, Financial Inclusion etc - and the report also highlights three important trends close to your collective inclusive business hearts:

• The changing and expanding role of business in development;
• The continuing potential of technology to increase the impact and reach of solutions.
• The number of examples across domains of innovative “start-ups”, whether new partnerships, programmes, organisations or enterprises that are looking to do something new or do it new ways. (NB This links seamlessly into the recent blog from Tom Harrison on the challenges commercialising NGO programmes as social enterprise start-ups).

Please also see an interesting case study on cross-sector partnering using BIF's contract-farming project in Bangladesh with ACI Agribusiness. ASM Saifullah and M. Saifullah from Practical Action and ACI respectively provide their viewpoints on the benefits and future possibilities of their nascent partnership. Our thanks go to both for their time and thoughts.

I hope you all find it an interesting read. 

Simon.

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