Welcome to IBee

This site helps you to understand :

  • why the concept of Inclusive Business is emerging globally,
  • what we can do to reach UN SDG’s,
  • how we can generate Triple Wins for society/governments; companies and people on the bottom of income level (B40),
  • what is the uniqueness of the IBee offering,
  • where the benefits are in working with us as a partner/sponsor
  • how IBee’s 5 key offerings support you as government, business association, development partner or IBee accredited firm
  • where to look for further resources for Inclusive Business policy promotion.

Inclusive Businesses

Inclusive Businesses (IB) are commercially viable private sector business lines deliberately designed to create scaled-up, innovative and systemic solutions to the relevant income and living standard problems for the poor and low-income people.

Emerging Rapidly

While companies who embraced Inclusive Business principles are emerging rapidly, impact investors increasingly finance such firms, business associations advocate IB, and consulting firms and IB facilitators provide help on IB design and knowledge sharing, governments are designing strategies and programs to promote such investments.

IBee Helps

IBee was founded to help those governments and other IBee champions in designing policies for promoting a better enabling environment on Inclusive Business (the IB-ee). As a consulting firm, we are offering particularly landscape studies, as well as support for IB accreditation and business coaching . Our clients and partners are especially government agencies, business associations , development partners and foundations.

About IBEE

We help governments, business associations and development partners to promote a better enabling environment for Inclusive business investments in emerging economies

IBEE PARTNERS

Working with the right champion is key. We collaborate with government authorities, development partners and foundations, impact investors, companies and institutions.

IBEE SERVICES

We offer to conduct landscape studies, IB coaching and mentoring, IB implementation and accreditation support as well as overseas market development

"Engaging the poor in business value chains is not enough to bring them out of poverty. We need sustainable business lines of the private sector with relevant and scaled up solutions to their income and living standard problems."

IBee in action

Landscape Study Malaysia - Recently published !

Members of IBee were involved in preparing a landscape study on the request of SME Corp Malaysia to strategically promote Inclusive Business adoption. The study showed, that there are firms already operating within the IB framework, but there is tremendous potential to do much more. A realistic scenario showed a possible 2.38b MYR contribution to GDP with 400m MYR of investments generated by just 100 firms which would impact 600 000 people of the B40

Multiple concurrent projects Africa

Our team is currently engaged in Inclusive Business policy work for Nigeria and Zambia. Besides IB-advocacy, -accreditation and -business coaching, we design smart IB tax incentives, procurement-, leasing, -finance and technical assistance facilities as well as establishing an IB Risk Reduction and Social Innovation Fund for Impact Investors. The overall policy work also comprises link-ups to SME promotion, value chain, social enterprise, and CSR agenda and impact monitoring.

NEW ! Landscape studies for Zambia and Nigeria

Our team was recently involved in two IB landscape studies in Africa commissioned by iBAN. In its company assessment, one study looked at over 140 firms in Zambia and found 18 real and potential Inclusive Business models with a consolidated revenue of about $44.1 million and a social reach of more than 3 million poor and low-income people. In Nigeria 11 IB business lines were analysed with a consolidated revenue of about $237 million, benefitting 5.6 million poor and low-income people

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Country/Regional Landscape Studies

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Inclusive Businesses in  PIPELINE

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Country policy Initiatives