Investment Readiness and Impact Delivery Support for Climate-Smart Cocoa Sourcing
I4DI is supporting Sucden to access concessional finance through AfDB’s ACFM/TAF facility, providing targeted advisory on proposal structuring, technical alignment, and partner coordination. The work forms part of I4DI’s broader approach to bridging DFIs and borrowers through impact infrastructure.
Income Impact Assessments for Clean Energy and Agri-MSMEs
I4DI is conducting rapid impact assessments for Shell Foundation to determine how clean energy and cold chain innovations are affecting net incomes for smallholder farmers and microentrepreneurs in India and Nigeria. By blending rigorous data methods with participatory insights, this work sheds light on what meaningful income uplift looks like, and what it takes to achieve it, across diverse and underserved communities.
Empowering Smallholder Farmers in India – Shubh Samriddhi Project in India
I4DI is thrilled to announce our new collaborative venture with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, as an expansion of our partnership with Mars Inc. on the Farmer Income Lab. This project will help impoverished smallholder households reach a livable income through alignment between government priorities and private-sector interests to serve smallholder farmers and agribusiness SMEs in a gender equitable way.
Through this initiative, I4DI will provide focused MLE support to the Shubh Mint project in Uttar Pradesh, India. This initiative is a pivotal step towards transforming procurement practices and integrating smallholder farmers into inclusive and economically viable supply chains, marking a significant leap towards equity for the region’s agricultural community.
Sustainability Partnership Strategy
I4DI is collaborating with Starbucks to design and launch a sustainability partnerships strategy and action plan that accelerates the company’s commitment to becoming resource positive by unlocking social and environmental impact through strategic partnerships.
I4DI & Livelihoods Venture: A New Era in Impact Assessment & Operational Excellence
Livelihoods Venture (LV), committed to amplifying its impact through its Funds, projects, and investments, recognizes the transformative potential of strategic alignment. They have thus teamed up with I4DI to enhance LV’s impact pathways and revamp their MEL system. I4DI has already commenced with an in-depth analysis of LV’s existing MEL systems. Through a series of […]
Green Cities Program: A Field Support Mechanism to Advance Integrated Urban Programming
The Institute for Development Impact is implementing a five year Green Cities program, which is designed to help USAID partner countries develop more sustainable, equitable, healthy, and prosperous cities. Structured as a global field support mechanism, the Green Cities will help USAID Missions achieve Climate Strategy targets as well as governance, health, inclusive development, and other development objectives.
Global Development Alliance to Improve Farmer Livelihoods and Support a Sustainable, Climate-Resilient Cocoa Industry in Indonesia
Through the Advancing Cocoa Agroforestry towards Income, Value, and Environmental Sustainability (ACTIVE) partnership, USAID, Mars, Inc., and I4DI are using their collective resources to address key cocoa supply and deforestation challenges that are negatively affecting farmers in South and Southeast Sulawesi, Indonesia.
Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning Partner for Cocoa Project – L3F
I4DI is engaging with L3F to implement and test the effectiveness of bundles of interventions designed to support cocoa smallholders in Ghana. The objective is to build productive and profitable family farming enterprises that secure a decent standard of living and make cocoa farming attractive to the next generation of farmers through the testing of different development models and approaches.
Conducting Rapid Appraisals of Rice Supply Chains in Asia – Mars Food
I4DI will generate evidence to help Mars understand the conditions, constraints, and opportunities for improving incomes at rice origin locations and to produce insights that will inform the design of new sustainable sourcing models in Cambodia, India, Pakistan and Thailand. In these four countries, I4DI is conducting rapid appraisals that include; a targeted analysis of […]
Program and Organizational Effectiveness Plan – Mars Inc.
I4DI provided performance management services to Mars. Inc covering business process review, knowledge asset mapping, technology systems review, and redesign of a comprehensive performance management system for activities supporting sustainable sourcing of cocoa in South Sulawesi, Indonesia. Services included 1) a performance monitoring and impact evaluation plan to increase the sustainable impact of Mars Indonesia’s […]
Support for the Implementation of the Decent Work Country Programme in Uzbekistan
This project is designed to mirror the framework of the Decent Work Country Programme (DWCP) aimed at “promoting decent work in Uzbekistan, with a focus on the prevention and reduction of child and forced labour, by building the knowledge, technical and institutional capacities of the constituents to monitor and promote decent working conditions, employment opportunities […]
My-PEC: Myanmar Program on the Elimination of Child Labor in Myanmar
ILO commenced implementation of My-PEC: Myanmar Program on the Elimination of Child Labor in December 2013 with a goal to reduce child labor in Burma through the establishment of a comprehensive, inclusive and efficient multi-stakeholder response system and establish reliable data and evidence to expand the knowledge base, track incidence and understand nature of child […]