The private sector is being seen increasingly as a key agent of development by the international community and national governments. In the past, donors placed greater emphasis on assisting governments and the not for profit sector to support the business enabling environment or through the training of private sector associations or institutions. Increasingly donors are looking to the private sector directly as an agent of growth and ensuring that businesses adopt an inclusive approach to bringing in poor people into the supply chain as both suppliers and customers.
Triple Line has undertaken a number of consultancies for companies and worked through Challenge Funds in showing how inclusive business models can be sustainable and profitable for the business and generate substantial development impacts. In many cases it is a question of explaining the development jargon to business owners and translating the language of results measurement into something that a business can relate to. It is equally important to translate the language of business to donors and the not for profit sector who have been skeptical on the role that the private sector can play as an agent of development.
Examples of projects include: