Impact-Driven Investing in New Mobility Enterprises: Perspectives from Kampala, Uganda, and Hyderabad, India

The research examines the challenges of impact-driven investing in new mobility enterprises in Kampala and Hyderabad. It identifies systemic barriers, including regulatory risks, entrenched stakeholders, and the difficulty of quantifying transport-related impacts due to the sector's indirect role in other development areas. The paper argues that successful impact investing requires stakeholders to understand market and institutional barriers and commit to supportive partnerships.

• Impact investing in mobility enterprises is uncommon due to several systemic and technical challenges: the difficulty of accounting for impact, the dilution of impact across cross-cutting sectors, the presence of entrenched stakeholders who obstruct investment, and regulatory or political risks that threaten business operations.
• Creating transport impact metrics and outcome narratives is challenging because the mobility sector often acts as an indirect or unacknowledged link to other critical areas, including climate change, urban development, gender equity, education, and health.
• For impact investing to be effective in this sector, investors and governments must comprehend the net impacts (both positive and negative) and the institutional and market barriers facing enterprises, and be willing to provide partnership and support to overcome these hurdles.

APA

World Resources Institute (n.d.). Impact-Driven Investing in New Mobility Enterprises: Perspectives from Kampala, Uganda, and Hyderabad, India. https://www.wri.org/research/impact-driven-investing-new-mobility-enterprises-perspectives

Chicago

World Resources Institute. Impact-Driven Investing in New Mobility Enterprises: Perspectives from Kampala, Uganda, and Hyderabad, India. n.d. https://www.wri.org/research/impact-driven-investing-new-mobility-enterprises-perspectives.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{worldresourcesinstitutendimpactdriven, author = {{World Resources Institute}}, title = {{Impact-Driven Investing in New Mobility Enterprises: Perspectives from Kampala, Uganda, and Hyderabad, India}}, institution = {World Resources Institute}, url = {https://www.wri.org/research/impact-driven-investing-new-mobility-enterprises-perspectives}, urldate = {2026-08-17}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }