We facilitate market growth by addressing underlying constraints and supporting disruptive innovations to reach scale and improve access for bottom of the pyramid. We strive for whole system change, harnessing the power of market forces to achieve sustainable impact at scale.

Our work with all stakeholders in the market system empowers households and communities to fully benefit from economic opportunities as entrepreneurs, suppliers, consumers, and employees.

We also build capacity, connect entrepreneurs to markets, and expand access to finance. Through this work, we increase productivity and competitiveness to foster inclusive market systems.

The possibilities offered by digital technologies over the past two decades have been nothing short of remarkable. The pervasiveness of broadband, ubiquitous connectivity, cloud computing, the ‘Internet of Things’, social networking have all transformed how we work, communicate, socialize, and do business.

We enable companies gain a competitive edge with the use of data and analytics, which enables faster and larger-scale evidence-based decision making, insight generation, and process optimization.

We work with different organizations to accelerate progress in AI and automation to bring further opportunities for users, businesses, and the economy.

The cluster approach to development aims to stimulate economic growth by increasing the benefits to firms of being in a certain region.

Change happens through local ownership by private, civil, and public sector stakeholders. We do not want to undermine local actors’ roles. Rather, we strive to facilitate, strengthening linkages between existing and new actors, to improve market systems.

Our role as facilitator lays the foundation for scale and sustainability: It builds on and aligns with the capacities and incentives of stakeholders who will be present long after we have left.’

A competitive, vibrant private sector reduces poverty, creates employment, and increases access to important goods and services. Shared Value Foundation offers enterprise development and technical support to local entrepreneurs to help them achieve their full potential, driving economic development that can lift entire communities.

We support entrepreneurs to find markets , access finance and provide the most relevant and effective capacity building in order for them to navigate organizational challenges.