WHAT IS THE INCLUSIVE INNOVATION JOURNEY?

Governments often have a hard time reaching and providing essential goods and services to low-income populations. At the same time, inclusive businesses are successfully operating innovative solutions to serve such communities, but often not at scale.

Business Call to Action's Inclusive Innovation Journey (IIJ) bridges this gap by fostering collaboration between the private sector and the government. The IIJ is a government-led inclusive innovation process that replicates and adapts proven inclusive business models and their solutions to serve low-income populations, in the last mile.

The Inclusive Innovation Journey has recently been launched in Colombia and Tunisia. Click on the maps below to find out more for country-specific contexts or continue scrolling for an overview of the IIJ process.

**Colombia**

Telehealth solutions for pre-natal, natal and post-natal services

**TUNISIA**

Agritech solutions for efficient management of water resources

WHAT ARE THE KEY FEATURES?

**Supports**

impact-driven businesses and local entrepreneurs by helping them fill development gaps

**Facilitates**

access to new technologies in the areas of telehealth, agritech, skills development and access to ICT

**Solves**

sectoral and local challenges faced by governments but also shared by public authorities worldwide

**Develops**

innovative content for governments, in addition to training and a support structure for public managers

HOW DOES IT WORK?

The Inclusive Innovation Journey deals with facilitating the replication and adaptation of global innovation processes. It does so by focusing on seeding an ecosystem of local entrepreneurs with inclusive models so that governments have viable options of essential services providers who are sensitized to the needs of low-income populations.

WORKING WITH UNDP COUNTRY OFFICES and local partners

BCtA’s Inclusive Innovation Journey leverages existing, proven, inclusive business models by adapting them to the needs of new geographies and contexts, with a business-to-government (B2G) model. UNDP Country Offices play a central role in facilitating the alignment of multiple stakeholders and mobilizing available resources to engage and prepare both local inclusive businesses and government institutions as agents of inclusive innovation.

At the same time, the Inclusive Innovation Journey integrates internal UNDP technical assistance with the complementary expertise of external private and public sector partners in service of local government development needs.

UNDP Country Offices take the lead in co-defining the critical problems of interest with local private and public sector partners, while BCtA collaborates with internal UNDP technical experts and its external member companies to provide the methodology, technical support, and expertise to replicate and adapt the required inclusive B2G solutions.

Through the collaboration with UNDP Country Offices, BCtA promotes a government-led inclusive innovation process that collaborates with local private and public sector actors to serve low-income populations at the last mile.

THE FIVE STAGES OF INCLUSIVE INNOVATION JOURNEY

To ensure the replication effort is context-oriented and the innovation process is inclusive, solutions must be adapted to the needs and reality of local low-income communities.

The successful replication and adaptation of agile, problem-based, proven solutions that reduce the risks of innovation and support governments in the delivery of essential services is guaranteed through a five-stage methodology.

DELIVERED OVER THREE MODULES

The five-stage methodology is delivered over three modules, with the end result being the successful implementation of the inclusive B2G solution.

module 1: Planning & Problem solving

Conducting a sector diagnostic and a policy analysis
Designing sectoral roadmaps for actionable problem-based solutions
Assessing business model replicability and adaptability levers

module 2: PilotinG

Deploying B4G services based on replication and adaption.

module 3: Scaling & Training

Co-creating guidelines on inclusive public procurement
Training on inclusive public procurement and impact management

WHERE DO I START?

Right here! The Inclusive Innovation Journey is seeking calls for applications in telehealth solutions in Colombia and agritech solutions in Tunisia.

Click on the maps below to find out more and on how to apply with your business solution.