Sachin Gupta

Currently Team Leader of UK-Tanzania GreenGrowth Facility, a technical assistance facility to support economictransformation, private sector development with a focus on investment finance,high value crops, forests, carbon markets and climate change.

Recently managed the Kenya Country Programme for UK Partnership forAccelerating Climate Transitions. Also Senior Advisor to MastercardFoundation’s support for Founders Factory Africa.

Recently, Team Leader of a systems change programme in Tanzania. i4idtz.orgideates and prototypes systems change approaches for scale impact, usingpolicy, advocacy, private sector innovation, and coalition building to tacklecomplex development challenges.

We made huge strides in -
- inclusive education, persuading government to adopt a new national signlanguage through schools, national TV broadcasters, Universities, Ministries,and teacher training colleges;
- safe water, prototyping GIS systems with water utilities to increase networkreach and connections, now rolling out nationally through industryassociations, regulators and government;
- menstrual health products, catalysing market innovations, new products,distribution strategies and policy reforms, to improve access, affordabilityand choice for poor women and girls.
- Dar es Salaam solid waste management, testing and scaling innovations withinformal waste collectors, companies, municipalities and national policymakers
- sub-national investment facilitation, prototyping a new type of regionalgovernment service to accelerate job creation.

Expertise in private sector development, business model innovation, publicservice reform, civil society development, and HIV/Health systems. Strongbusiness and partnership development skills. Chartered Accountant. Recentexperience includes:

Palladium's Economic Growth Director. Portfolio of programmes across 15countries to enhance rural, agricultural and inclusive markets, advisinggovernments on economic and investment policy and accelerating investment andgrowth for innovation and social enterprises. Designed and led several,exciting, ambitious programmes -

SPRING - A business accelerator for start-ups and innovators, supporting over60 new products and services for adolescent girls to go to market, across 9countries, with human centred design, product development, investmentreadiness.

Economic Policy Incubator, Nepal - supporting reforms to help Nepal exploitopportunities to enhance inclusive growth and overcome constraints for growthand poverty reduction.

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