Scaling Social & Impact Enterprises

Direct beneficiaries:

• incubators, accelerators and other service providers
• impact enterprises
• impact investors

Indirect, but ultimate beneficiaries:

• 287’356 low-income beneficiaries improved their livelihoods through supported impact enterprises
• A further 100’000 low-income beneficiaries benefited from the offerings from impact enterprises that were supported by developments inspired or enabled by the programme

Outcome 1: By availing tailored investment readiness and impact management support through service providers, up to 100 impact enterprises have scaled their operations and/or reinforced the impact angle in their business models to improve livelihoods for low-income and disadvantaged people, particularly women and climate-vulnerable individuals along the value chain.

Outcome 2: Through access to catalytic financing, up to 12 impact enterprises have scaled their operations, resulting in stronger resilience and improved livelihoods for low-income and disadvantaged people, in particular, women and climate-vulnerable individuals, by providing them with more essential products and services.

Outcome 3: Donors, impact investors and the Government promote an enabling environment for impact entrepreneurship and impact investing and improve awareness of, and access to, finance for impact enterprises through innovative blended finance instruments.

Resultados previstos:  

Outcome 1
Output 1.1: 91 impact enterprises receive tailored capacity building support.
Output 1.2: Local ecosystem support organisation receive tailored training.

Outcome 2
Output 2.1: Impact enterprises secure appropriate catalytic funding to fuel additional low-income beneficiaries served.
Output 2.2: Supported impact enterprises continue developing their impact measurement systems and grow their operations through catalytic funding.

Outcome 3
Output 3.1: Key stakeholders have increased awareness of the full range of financial instruments which are well suited to the needs of impact enterprises. 

Resultados de las fases anteriores:  

• Eight local service providers providing high-quality impact measurement and management capacity building support
• 119 impact enterprises received capacity-building support (business model development, investment readiness, and impact measurement and management training)
• 16 impact enterprises received catalytic funding to grow their operations and serve additional underserved customers
• 127’627 additional low-income beneficiaries reached through capacity building and catalytic funding support
• USD12.8 million additional capital invested in impact enterprises, caused by the programme (as of December 2022)
• Generated external contributions of CHF1.5 CHF for every CHF1 spent (as of June 2022)
• Supported the Bangladesh Impact Investment Strategy & Action Plan (BIISAP) that provides a clear overview of strategic priorities for the impact investing ecosystem, capturing the views of all relevant ecosystem actors