Market shaping and social innovation

What it covers

Market systems development and market diagnostics
Blended and innovative finance structuring
De-risking mechanisms and guarantee design
Social enterprise and impact-model design
Public–private partnership design and governance

Typical engagements

We diagnose a sector's structural constraints and design the market-shaping interventions that address them.
We structure blended-finance and de-risking instruments that make public-priority investments commercially viable.
We test the feasibility of new financing models with the employers, insurers, or providers who would have to adopt them.
We design public–private partnership platforms, including the governance that keeps them accountable.

Sectors

Where it sits in the arc

This pillar leads on Shape and Build. Instruments are designed, then the partnership and governance structures that operate them are stood up.

Think
Shape
Build
Deliver
Prove

Related experience

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BGI

Pharmaceutical industry diagnostics and sector strategy

Diagnosed the structural constraints and growth opportunities across Ethiopia's pharmaceutical sector and shaped recommendations to strengthen local manufacturing, competitiveness, and resilience.

Pillars this draws on

Marie Stopes International Ethiopia (MSIE)

Employer-supported health insurance feasibility assessment

Tested the feasibility of employer-supported health insurance to expand access to sexual and reproductive health services for low- and middle-income workers at mass employment centres, examining financing, employer appetite, and policy implications.

Pillars this draws on

Multi-partner consortium

Public–private partnership advisory for diagnostic services

Advised a consortium of partners on the design and governance of a public–private partnership platform to expand access to quality diagnostic services across Ethiopia.

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