Access to Basic Services

Access to basic services, including water and sanitation, energy, and clean cooking, is starkly unequal across many low- and middle-income countries. While innovative solutions exist, the impact-oriented enterprises developing them often struggle to scale because of the ‘missing middle’ in access to finance. Addressing these challenges requires innovation and a commitment to building partnerships between social enterprises, funders, industry bodies and market leaders.

We bring significant experience in ensuring that finance works for growth, equity and impact. Recent examples include work with a social enterprise in Cambodia to scale their sanitation solutions, and support to USAID to rethink how they can grow and sustain private sector contraceptive provision in LMICs through innovative finance mechanisms.