WBCSD-SNV Alliance: Creating inclusive business opportunities by linking local communities with big business

Business guide to enabling access to medicines in low-income markets

How can pharmaceutical companies develop inclusive business models that tap the growing market for pharmaceuticals in developing and emerging countries, enabling low-income patients access to quality medicines at affordable prices? Bringing Medicines to Low-Income Markets (pdf, 3MB), released this week, provides a guiding framework to answer this question. 

New WBCSD Access to Energy publication launched to help scale up business action

The World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) today released its publication Business solutions to enable energy access for all, to coincide with the launch of the International Year of Sustainable Energy for All by the United Nations’ Secretary-General, HE Ban Ki-moon.

Best of inclusivebusiness.org in 2011

Happy New Year to everyone! To kick off the year, find below the “best of” list with the  most popular articles among those posted on this site in 2011.

We look forward to continuing to update you on business-led solutions as drivers of social inclusion and sustainable development. If you have any feedback or suggestions, please do not hesitate to let us know.

Assessing the socio-economic impact of Newmont Ghana Gold Limited

A new report (pdf, 6 MB) describes the socio-economic impacts of the gold mine operated by Newmont Ghana Gold Limited (NGGL) in the Brong-Ahafo Region of Ghana both on the local community and on the nation as a whole.

The study is the product of over six months of research by a study team composed of Professor Ethan B. Kapstein of INSEAD and Dr. Rene Kim, Willem Ruster and Hedda Eggeling of Steward Redqueen, a strategic consulting firm based in the Netherlands.

Enabling access to safe water: Case studies and lessons learned

More than 2 billion poor people lack access to safe water. This has devastating health consequences, cuasing almost 2.5 million deaths per year.

Over the past five years, dozens of innovative, safe water solutions for low-income communities have gained increasing ground across the world: NGOs are setting-up enterprises manufacturing and offering low-cost, effective water filters; social entrepreneurs are managing networks of hundreds of mini-treatment plants in villages experiencing heavy water pollution; local entrepreneurs are building networks of low-cost, stand-alone pipe networks in poor suburbs and towns; and both public and private utilities have proven it is possible to expand public water services to the poor peripheries of large cities.