"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has."
Margaret Mead

SNV adds value
SNV helps public and private organisations to succeed and scale by unlocking and harnessing their true potential for transformative social change. SNV adds value through a powerful blend of strategic and thematic solutions.
Strategic Offerings


• Organisational Effectiveness: We provide strategic advice to ensure that our clients make the right decisions that take full advantage of their internal asset-base and external opportunities;
• Scalability and Impact Assessment: We help organisations maximise growth opportunities, identify new methods and markets for scale, and help them assess their financial, social and environmental returns;
• Innovative Solutions: As a thought-leader in developing inclusive markets, we develop know-how that leverages our clients’ (hidden) assets to improve their performance;
• Change Management: We help organisations make critical choices about their future and develop meaningful strategies to get them to where they want to be;
• Stakeholder and Shareholder Management: We develop comprehensive engagement strategies for our clients to work effectively within and across sectors and stakeholder groups, to minimise risk and maximise opportunities for mutual benefit.

Core Practice

• Market-Based Solutions: We develop innovative strategies, such as Inclusive Business, that integrate the low-income segment into a company’s value chain. These strategies create growth and new opportunities for the company, while generating sustainable livelihoods for the poor. SNV, as the market leader in Inclusive Business development, has worked with more than 70 industry leaders to make Inclusive Business a viable business strategy to create growth in new markets, lower supply-chain related transaction costs, manage stakeholder and shareholder risks, and leverage blended financial mechanisms;
• Public Sector Innovation: We work with governments at national and local levels to develop innovative public policy frameworks and public-private partnerships that enhance an enabling environment for competitive and inclusive private sector development, while ensuring conditions for social empowerment, inclusion and sustainable development;
• Blended Capital Solutions: We actively design and broker financial solutions that provide the most appropriate capital structure to ensure the effective development and delivery of inclusive solutions in the public and private sectors, and work with investment funds and donors to ensure they meet their strategic objectives;
• Education for Employment: We develop public-private partnerships that catalyse sustainable opportunities to reduce unemployment and underemployment through targeted vocational education/labour certification programmes.

 

Our sectors
SNV designs and implements projects, develops know-how, and adds value to clients in the following sectors: Agribusiness, tourism, forestry, renewable energy (including biofuels), low-cost housing, consumer products, vocational education, and financial services.