Economic Development

Economic Development Strategies to Combat Global Poverty

Climate finance for women-led enterprises

The $1 Trillion Blind Spot: Redirecting Climate Finance to Women-Led Solutions.

Women-led micro and small enterprises are already delivering climate solutions, yet receive only a fraction of global climate finance. This article explores how redesigning climate finance, procurement and investment can unlock the potential of women-led businesses to strengthen resilience, reduce emissions and accelerate an inclusive, locally driven climate transition.
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Aline Sara

Creating Work Opportunities for Refugees, with Aline Sara

Meet Social Impact Pioneer, Aline Sara, Co-Founder and CEO of NaTakallam, the award-winning social enterprise transforming how businesses and individuals engage with refugees and conflict-affected communities.
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Staying Ambitious with AI: 5 Lessons for Responsible Social Impact

Artificial intelligence has the potential to transform social impact, but only if it is deployed responsibly. Drawing on Business Fights Poverty’s latest Insight Paper, this article explores five practical lessons for using AI to strengthen lives, livelihoods and learning through inclusive design, trusted partnerships, strong governance and human-centred implementation.
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From Engagement to Action: 5 Ways to Activate Internal Stakeholders on Social Impact

Moving internal stakeholders from awareness to action is one of the biggest challenges facing social impact professionals. Drawing on insights from Business Fights Poverty’s latest Insight Paper, this article outlines five practical strategies for building trust, creating relevance and activating sustained internal engagement to embed social impact across business strategy and operations.
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Moving Beyond Projects: How Corporate–NGO Partnerships Can Build Systems Collaboration

As global crises intensify and aid declines, corporate–NGO partnerships must evolve beyond project-based funding. Drawing on Business Fights Poverty’s latest Insight Paper, this article outlines six practical lessons for building financially resilient, locally led and systems-focused partnerships that create lasting social impact while strengthening business resilience.
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Unlocking More Impact from Limited Capital: 5 Lessons on Catalytic and Recyclable Finance

As social impact budgets tighten, businesses are exploring catalytic and recyclable finance to achieve greater impact with limited capital. Drawing on Business Fights Poverty’s latest Insight Paper, this article shares five practical lessons to help companies use grants, blended finance and impact investing more strategically to build resilient, long-term social and environmental outcomes.
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Responsible Business

How the TISFD Framework Supports Businesses and Investors to Manage People-Related Risks and Opportunities

As inequalities remain high and persistent globally, the Taskforce on Inequality and Social-related Financial Disclosures (TISFD) is inviting stakeholders to participate in the development of its draft framework, which aims to help businesses and investors to better understand the risks and opportunities arising from inequalities and other social issues.
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Your mission is clear, your messaging isn't

Your Mission is Clear. Your Messaging Isn’t

Many social impact organisations assume that a strong mission is enough to attract support. In reality, growth depends on understanding and responding to audience needs. This article explores how listening, audience insight and feedback loops help impact brands communicate more effectively, build trust and reach the people they were created to serve.
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Catalytic Finance

Staying Ambitious: Practical Steps for Businesses to Unlock Recyclable and Catalytic Social Impact Finance This paper explores how businesses can use catalytic and recyclable
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Internal Stakeholder Activation

Staying Ambitious: Moving internal business stakeholders from engagement to action – practical insights from social impact professionals This paper explores how social impact professionals
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Corporate NGO Partnerhips

Staying Ambitious: How Corporate-NGO Partnerships Can Move Towards Systems Collaboration This paper explores how corporate-NGO partnerships can evolve beyond traditional project-based approaches to deliver
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From Reaction to Prevention: Using Remittances to Act Before Climate Crises Hit

As climate-related disasters become more frequent and severe, the case for acting before crises strike is growing stronger. This article explores how Mercy Corps, H&M Foundation and Adyen are testing an innovative approach that links climate early-warning systems to remittances, helping vulnerable families access resources before disasters hit and building more resilient, anticipatory humanitarian systems.
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Ian Leader

Brokering Partnerships and Collaboration with Ian Leader

Listen in to Ian Leader, Social Impact Pioneer, cross-sector strategist and founder of Local Works. Ian shares his experience in building partnerships that really work, between business, community and government.
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Peer Learning Forum 2026

Held at the University of Oxford. The Forum offers a private, business-only space for senior practitioners with 10+ years of experience to reflect, share
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Ulrich Assouah

AI Literacy and Local Humanitarian Leadership in Cameroon

In this interview, we hear from Ulrich Assouah, Managing Director of IFP Humanitarian Studies, based in Douala, Cameroon. With a background in humanitarian leadership development, organisational governance, and capacity building for local NGOs and young professionals across Africa and fragile contexts, Ulrich brings a practitioner’s lens to the question of AI’s role in locally led humanitarian action.
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Ambition at a Time of Crisis and Constraint

Ambition at a Time of Crisis and Constraint: Harnessing Partnerships and AI for Global Development This paper explores how organisations can stay ambitious in
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innovative corporate social impact

When Budgets Tighten, Corporate Innovators Invest More in Social Impact. Here’s Why.

Across the corporate social impact community, budgets are tightening and many companies have gone quiet on commitments. New research from Project ROI, aggregating 640+ peer-reviewed studies, shows the opposite move: high-performing companies invest more in CSR during downturns. Here’s the data, and what it means for corporate leaders and their nonprofit partners.
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Decade of TRANSFORM

What a Decade of TRANSFORM Teaches Us About Partnerships

The new TRANSFORM Playbook shares practical lessons from more than a decade of collaboration between Unilever, FCDO and EY. With contributions from Business Fights Poverty CEO and Co-Founder Zahid Torres-Rahman OBE, it offers timely guidance for impact accelerators and organisations seeking to build public-private partnerships that deliver lasting social impact.
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Getting Growth Right: A Vision for Global Prosperity (Full Session)

Getting Growth Right: a vision for global prosperity in the next decade Organised by the International Growth Centre at the London School of Economics,
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Getting Growth Right: A Vision for Global Prosperity

Getting Growth Right: a vision for global prosperity in the next decade Organised by the International Growth Centre at the London School of Economics,
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