Support Programs
Targeting IB+IGB in Stakeholder programs
Existing programs for enterprise, impact investment, social enterprise and corporate responsibility are asked to recognise IB/IGB and to prefer it.
One feature of the strategy is to build strategic partnerships with the impact investing industry, with social enterprise initiatives, and with corporate social responsibility, and with government and development-partner programs that finance small and medium enterprise promotion.
The point of the partnerships is practical. SME programs, impact funds and CSR programs already move money and advice. The IB/IGB criteria give them a way to select companies that create a systemic result for the base of the pyramid, instead of treating every growing firm as equivalent. Accredited companies are the group those programs are asked to prioritise.
The institutions already inside the initiative are mapped under Institutionalization and under partner agencies.