Aceli Africa is a new market incentive facility to mobilize $700M in lending to agricultural SMEs and improve livelihoods for over 1 million smallholder farmers and enterprise employees by 2025. The design and implementation of Aceli Africa is based on lending data...
GDI-Incubated RAF Learning Lab and ISF Advisors Publish COVID-19 Emergency Briefing Series
COVID-19 is an extreme shock that is unprecedented in its impact on national, regional, and global markets. The focus of response efforts in developing countries have been on densely populated urban centers, but the majority of people in these countries live in rural...
New Pathways to Prosperity Report Introduces Tools to Bridge the Persistent Rural Agricultural Financing Gap
ISF Advisors and the Mastercard Foundation’s Rural and Agricultural Finance Learning Lab (the Lab) — both initiatives currently housed at Global Development Incubator (GDI) — have released their latest rural and agricultural finance state of the sector report:...
The Council on Smallholder Agricultural Finance (CSAF) Releases its 2019 State of the Sector Report
As one of the latest initiatives being incubated at GDI , the Council on Smallholder Agricultural Finance (CSAF) convenes 12 of the world’s leading agricultural small- to medium-sized enterprise (SME) lenders to share learning, identify best practices, and...
A GDI Case Study: ISF Advisors
How does GDI design and build social impact startups? It’s a question we get a lot, so we’ve tried to answer it in a new GDI case study on ISF Advisors (formerly the Initiative for Smallholder Finance). Starting with a Dalberg state of the sector market sizing report,...
Harvard Kennedy School report features GDI’s research on multi-stakeholder initiatives
Two years after publishing our landmark report, More than the Sum of its Parts: Making Multi-Stakeholder Initiatives Work, we’re thrilled to see our research and insights continuing to influence how effective collective action plays out in practice – this time, in the...