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Key objective of IB-ee.net is helping you as government, business association or development partner to promote a better enabling environment for IB investments in emerging economies.

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The IBee-team and our partners have extensive knowledge in a wide range of industry sectors and have been involved in various IB landscape studies, policy promotion activities, business coaching, IB accreditation, financial structuring of investment deals and IB advocacy work. Our achievements to date are updated regularly.

Please contact us if you have further questions on how we can help  promoting a better enabling IB environment


If you want to know more how Inclusive Business differs from mainstream business, NGO-driven social enterprises and traditional corporate social responsibility, please read here.

The history of Inclusive Business

2022-ongoing

Focused Inclusive Business enabling environment centre

With IBee.net, the IBee-team establishes a knowledge centre with the intention of international collaboration for the framework to end poverty.

2021-ongoing

Inclusive Business enabling environment for states and districts

IBee drives the establishment of an Inclusive Business enabling environment through engagement of not just countries, but also states and districts.

2018-ongoing

Inclusive Business and impact investment

The agendas of Impact Investments getting more and more aligned

with the goal and concept of the Inclusive business idea.

2017-ongoing

Policy Promotion for Inclusive Businesses

The G20 started an initiative on inclusive business in 2017 and ASEAN published an Inclusive Business policy guide in 2020.

Members of IBee were involved in 9 country policy initiatives.

2011-2017

Inclusive Business solutions for the BoP

The Asian Development Bank refocused from engagement to Inclusive Business as a solution. Followed by IFC, UNDP (BCTA) and GIZ/IBAN. Landscape studies were primarily company initiated and are since 2016 also country and policy focused.

Members of IBee were involved in 17 landscape studies.

2008-2012

Shared value and BoP engagement

The IFC (World Bank) and the Inter-American Development Bank getting engaged especially in South America. Big MNC’s and the World Business Council deploy shared value concepts.

2004

First Publications of inclusive business as a concept

C.K. Prahalad defines the ‘bottom of the pyramid of human society’, the ‘BOP’ as a market (“Fortune at the bottom of the pyramid”)