Primary Focus: SDG 1 – No Poverty

Description: This partnership aims to develop mobilization and deployment of resources by public-private projects by improving capacity and cross-sector social investment and identifying sustainable social investments in Southeast Asia (Indonesia, Philippines, Thailand) and beyond. The long-term goal of AVPN Policy Leadership Lab is to unite the public, private, and philanthropic sector and their social investing […]

Salud Mesoamerica Initiative (SMI)

The Salud Mesoamerica Initiative (SMI) is a public-private partnership between the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the Carlos Slim Foundation, the Governments of Canada and Spain, and eight Mesoamerica countries.  It was created in 2011 to reduce health inequities in light of achieving the Millennium Development Goals and Sustainable Development […]

Beyond Extraction: Economic Opportunities in Mining Communities

The mining sector generates 17% of Latin America’s exports and serves as a crucial engine of economic activity. However, many mining projects are carried out in socioeconomically vulnerable communities, and if these projects fail to meet local expectations around employment and economic benefits, there is a significant potential for conflict. TechnoServe, Anglo American, and the […]

Standard Microgrid (SMG) and Zambian Rural Electrification Authority (REA)

Through collaborative partnership, Standard Microgrid (SMG) and Zambian Rural Electrification Authority (REA) have launched a new business model in Zambia that is community managed and considered an off-grid micro utility business which can be implemented in rural settings throughout Africa. It entails individuals designing their own power subscriptions in accordance with the appliances they need, […]

Cambodia Rural Sanitation Development Impact Bond (CRS-DIB)

In November 2019, the Stone Family Foundation (SFF), U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), and iDE launched the Cambodia Rural Sanitation Development Impact Bond (DIB). The first of its kind in the water and sanitation (WASH) sector, the DIB combines private and public capital with on-the-ground implementation expertise to help eradicate open defecation in Cambodia […]