Insights

Notes from
the field.

Perspectives from inside our development, finance and community practice.

Perspectives from our practice

The Model

Why integration, not acquisition, is the real test of a development group

Buying capabilities is straightforward. Wiring them into a single delivery model is the part that takes years.

Dr Godbless Safugha
From the Field

Productive-use energy financing only works when the structure understands the cash flow

What we have learned designing end-user financing for PUE assets, and where the most common mistakes hide.

Emeraid Asset Finance
From the Field

The trainer-of-trainer multiplier: what VSLA scale actually depends on

VSLAs do not scale on programme budgets. They scale on facilitation quality.

EDI programme team