Zahid Torres-Rahman

How Can We Create Food Security and Ensure Strong Farmer Livelihoods?

Join us for this live written discussion with a panel of experts to explore what role businesses can play in addressing the social and equity dimensions of climate change. The live panel is taking places on Wednesday 25th October 2023, 10am to 11am EST / 3pm to 4 pm GMT
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How Can Business Most Effectively Address Gender-Based Violence?

This live written discussion with a panel of experts will explore how business can most effectively address gender-based violence in the workplace, their value chains and communities.
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What Does It Really Take for Companies to Lead on Gender Equity?

Women control over £14tn in annual consumer spending, expected to rise to nearly £21tn within five years. Designing for and with women is crucial to capture the value of the female economy. Leading companies create business models that serve women across all operations, uncovering biases and discovering new opportunities.
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Women Smallholders Will Drive Africa’s Transition to Regenerative Agriculture

Regenerative agriculture improves the soil, traps carbon emissions and lifts farmers out of poverty. 80% of Kenya’s smallholder farmers are women, which is why Hand in Hand’s regenerative agriculture curriculum places women at its core. The organisation aims to reach one in 20 Kenyan farmers in the next five years.
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How can businesses best support youth employability in light of the trends we are seeing around the future of work?

This live written discussion with a panel of experts to explored how businesses can best support youth employability in light of the trends we
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Sustainable Green Building and Green Tree Tops ESG

How can we better articulate the benefits of managing environmental, social and governance issues for businesses and wider stakeholders?

A live written discussion with a panel of experts to explore how we can better articulate the benefits of managing environmental, social and governance
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How can businesses encourage and support social innovation in their businesses?

A live written discussion with a panel of experts to explore how businesses encourage and support social innovation in their businesses, and the benefits
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What are the connections between health equity and climate change, and how can businesses play a role?

This live written discussion explored the connections between health equity and climate change, and how can businesses play a role. Thursday 16 March, 11
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Time to Act on Mental Health: UNICEF’s Global Coalition for Youth Mental Well-being

The Global Coalition for Youth Mental Well-being, hosted by UNICEF, was born out of the belief that the mental well-being of youth cannot be addressed by one entity alone but needs collective action. It is time for joint action on mental health
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How Gender-Responsive Media Can Help Women’s Economic Empowerment–and Business

Entrepreneurs face a number of challenges to starting and running profitable businesses, and societal attitudes often present an additional obstacle for women. What role can media play in changing these attitudes, and how can we make such programming financially sustainable?
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Gender-based violence is a work issue, with Jane and Craig

Social Impact Pioneers: Jane Pillinger and Craig Wilkinson are two of the most important thinkers and activators the world has in addressing harassment and gender-based abuse in and out of the workplace. Together they share their practical wisdom, for women and men, for individuals and organisations to help make it safe for everyone, everywhere.
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Systems change for social and ecological transformation: putting nature at the heart of scaling impact

A narrow understanding of systems thinking is holding social impact non-profits back from creating transformative change. As long as ‘natural systems’ remain the domain of environmental non-profits alone, we perpetuate an arbitrary separation between nature and humans – one that suits the drivers of our exploitative systems. Instead, we need to think about our systems as social-ecological and recognise that nature is the concern of social impact makers too.
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The View From the Blimp: How Cultural Artifacts Provide a Sense of Perspective

The insights in the Nudges and Bridges series aim to help everyone, including business people, understand how they can contribute to peace. In this video, Timothy Fort looks at lessons dogs teach us at a dog park, how religion is all about attempting to find perspective, and how two different plays in a football game can provide a perspective that lasts nearly a half-century.
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Four Essential Elements for the “Just” in “Just Transitions”

The concept of “just transition” – a whole-of-society approach to decarbonisation that respects human rights while promoting sustainable development, the eradication of poverty, and the creation of decent work and quality jobs – has come increasingly centre stage in national and international discussions on finance, energy, agriculture, and other key industrial transitions to net-zero. 
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Business Fights Poverty Climate Justice 2023

The online Business Fights Poverty Climate Summit 2023, broadcasting live from Dubai and Nairobi during the COP28 climate summit, will give you the chance to
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How Storytelling Can Paint a Full Picture of Impact for Businesses 

Across the globe, inclusive businesses are making differences in the lives of the world’s most vulnerable – from empowering rural women to improving access to education. However, plain numbers struggle to capture the breadth of important work they are doing to investors, potential partners, and the people they aim to help the most. To bring their work to life, inclusive businesses can use authentic storytelling – stories of successes but also challenges and realities on the ground.
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Business Fights Poverty Global Goals Summit 2023

Hybrid Summit (Online, New York, London, Nairobi). Three days of highly interactive events timed to coincide with the UN General Assembly (UNGA). This is
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Business Fights Poverty Gender Summit 2023

Hybrid Summit (Kenya, London, Online). To coincide with International Women’s Day (IWD) 2023,  focused on the IWD theme #EmbraceEquity and on how we as
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Business Fights Poverty Global Summit 2023

Hybrid Summit (Online, Oxford, London and Nairobi). Highly interactive sessions that brought together voices and insights from across the globe, from business, NGOs, academia
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Millers Change the Game for Food Fortification

Davos event calls on private and public sector actors to support, empower and reward millers who fortify commonly consumed staple foods with essential micronutrients
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