This report discusses how commercially driven partnerships and their grant funders and investors can accelerate the SDGs and overcome the missing middle challenge by examining new approaches of funding and exploring lessons learned from partnership funding journeys.
The report puts forward a series of recommendations to overcome the barriers faced by commercial partnerships to demonstrate impact, including: the importance for grant funders to adopt approaches to financing that stretch beyond their comfort level, and the need for investors should be more transparent and increase their accountability to better optimize impact.
