December 4, 2023

Section three: Advice and services

Advice and Services

A guide to BPP services that can support  your business and social impact goals.

The BPP team will assign a Relationship Manager who will be your main point of contact, and work with you throughout implementation to support administration of your grant and support throughout implementation.

In addition, the BPP can offer limited access to technical expertise to support the implementation of your BPP initiative. This may include support from:

  • BPP Communications Adviser: to assist you to define communications objectives and strategy, provide communications training for staff, support for product development and PR advice to achieve your business objectives. This could include:
    • Marketing to develop strategies that promote your partnership to customers
    • Public relations to develop press releases and engage with relevant media to add legitimacy to your partnership and offerings
    • Digital engagement to develop content for social media channels and websites, driving engagement to your online presence and building communities of advocates.
    • Brand positioning to position your partnership as a responsible and inclusive business and demonstrating your wider impact.
  • BPP Gender and Social Inclusion Adviser: to assist you to improve social impacts, particularly the impact on women and girls, and gender relations. Advice can be tailored to your specific business and at any point in your business cycle.
  • BPP Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning Advisers: to support you with results monitoring activities, including data collection, analysis, tool choice, sample setting, and attribution. Support can also be provided for impact assessments, and on reporting results and impact.
  • BPP Business Advisers: to assist you develop and refine your business strategy. This includes ensuring business models are both impactful and viable, as well as addressing specific business constraints.

Other sectoral advisers are available upon request and where available.

If you are interested in receiving support in one or more of these areas, please let the BPP team know and they will confirm if appropriate resources are available.

Example from our partners

In Bangladesh, a business dedicated to empowering women was provided with BPP advice and support to conduct a gender analysis.

A BPP partnership with DFAT, eyeglasses manufacturer Essilor, health-promotion organization Grameen Kalyan and training consultancy, MART expanded Essilor’s Eye Mitro (“friend of the eye” in Hindi) optician training program for rural youth in Bangladesh.

When the training program first opened in Bangladesh, few women enrolled in the program and those that did often dropped out before completing their training. The BPP encouraged and supported the partners to undertake a gender study to identify the barriers women face in the training program, and as practicing Eye Mitro opticians.

The study found that one of the most significant barriers was a lack of family support, with families and community influencers expressing concerns about women working outside of the home and starting a business. This influenced the partnership’s approach to the successful recruitment and retention of female Eye Mitros, by involving families and communities directly in the recruitment process and by encouraging prospective students to meet successful female Eye Mitro, giving families and students positive examples of change.

One of the partnership’s female recruits shares her experience of the training:

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