Marie Degrand-Guillaud, ADIE, France
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Marie Degrand-Guillaud, ADIE (France) talks about setting up microfinance in European countries which helps the unemployed and those with low education levels to be able to find a job.
Sine Linderstrøn, Senior Consultant, Vækstfonden
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Sine Linderstrøn, Senior Consultant, Vækstfonden (Denmark) talks about the relevance of the fi-compass conferences and explains how she is looking at new initiatives to help young farmers in Denmark.
Karen Wilson, OECD
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Karen Wilson from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) talks about social impact investment and explains the concept of expectation of both a financial and a social return.
Innovative financing and delivery mechanisms for getting the unemployed into work
Many factors put people at risk of long-term unemployment, including poverty and social exclusion, poor basic skills levels, discrimination, cultural distance from the mainstream labour market and poor local social capital.
Impact investment: The invisible heart of markets
Social impact investing, impact investing for short throughout this report, encompasses environmental impact. It is at the core of a broad ‘impact continuum’, that runs from philanthropy to responsible and sustainable investment, which includes all those seeking to achieve positive impact.
Handbook for the analysis of the governance of microfinance institutions
This guide is the result of previous work on governance carried out by CERISE members and based on field experience done by microfinance partners. IFAD and GTZ provided follow up support which focused on devising a simple, practical and user-friendly operational tool which would be of use to people involved in microfinance.
Guide to finance social enterprises
This guide is an attempt to demystify the financing options open to both new, and practicing,
social entrepreneurs. It may also point these entrepreneurs in the direction of financial strategies that might not otherwise have occurred to them.
Work programme funding priorities for 2015 – European Union for employment and social innovation (EaSI)
The EU Programme for Employment and Social Innovation – EaSI1 – is established to contribute to the implementation of the Europe 2020 Strategy, including its headline targets, Integrated Guidelines and flagship initiatives, by providing financial support for the Union’s objectives in terms of promoting a high level of quality and sustainable employment, guaranteeing adequate and decent social protection, combating social exclusion and poverty and improving working conditions.
Trading off between value creation and value appropriation: the financial implications of shifts in strategic emphasis
Firms allocate their limited resources between two fundamental processes of creating value (i.e., innovating, pro- ducing, and delivering products to the market) and appropriating value (i.e., extracting profits in the marketplace). Although both value creation and value appropriation are required for achieving sustained competitive advantage, a firm has significant latitude in deciding the extent to which it emphasizes one over the other. What effect does strategic emphasis (i.e., emphasis on value creation versus value appropriation) have on firm’s financial perfor- mance?
The new microfinance handbook
The New Microfinance Handbook reflects the current frontier of our collective thinking and experience. It starts with the need to understand the demand side. Poor households in the informal economy are producers and consumers. They need access to the full range of financial services to generate income, build assets, smooth consumption, and manage risks. The global financial inclusion agenda recognizes these broader needs.