Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises

SMEs Against Global Poverty

PREVIEW #BFPOXFORD Connection Lunch: Oxford Researchers Look to Tackle Multidimensional Poverty with Social Enterprise sOPHIa Oxford

Researchers from the Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI) have launched sOPHIa Oxford, the University’s first social enterprise spinout, to bring a multidimensional poverty-fighting method created by OPHI to businesses to help efforts to tackle poverty.
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PREVIEW #BFPOXFORD Keynote Profile: Monique Ntumngia, Winner of the Visa Everywhere Initiative

Be inspired by #BFPOxford Keynote speaker Monique Ntumngia, as she tells us more about the Green Girls Organisation, an award-winning clean energy technological innovation, which is creating a route towards economic independence for women and girls in Africa.
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Ivanka Trump Could Shape African Women’s Entrepreneurship

There were mixed views in February when U.S. “First Daughter” Ivanka Trump announced her Women’s Global Development and Prosperity Initiative with US$50 million in start-up funds. Many were left to wonder: Is this a publicity stunt by the Trump administration, more of the usual one-size-fits-all U.S. foreign aid programs, or a real commitment to drive change?  
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We Won’t Take This Lying Down: Women, Business and Equality in 2019

The Cherie Blair Foundation for Women has launched a new organisational strategy with an ambition to empower 100,000 more women and girls to fulfil their potential as entrepreneurs in the next four years. But why is this focus important and what does the roadmap towards getting there look like? ​
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The Unilever Young Entrepreneurs Awards 2019: Open for Applications Until 30 June

The Unilever Young Entrepreneurs Awards, delivered by Unilever and the University of Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership, support and celebrate inspirational young people from all over the world who have initiatives, products or services tackling some of the planet’s biggest sustainability challenges. ​
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In Benin, Young Entrepreneurs are Tackling the Plastic Problem

Through TechnoServe’s BeniBiz program, young entrepreneurs like Babatundé Oguidi are getting the training and technical advice they need to run successful micro-enterprises.
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How We Got Our Toilet Business Moving Again

By May 2018, we knew something was missing in the business model for Sama Sama, a toilet business iDE had started in rural Ghana in 2016.1 After two years of knocking on doors, sales were lower than expected or desired. This is a sure sign that another round of design is needed.
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Giving Women Better Access to Finance Could Unlock $330 Billion in Annual Global Revenue

Giving women better access to finance could unlock $330 billion in annual global revenue. Yet 80% of women-owned businesses are not getting the credit they need.  In response, CARE International has launched a campaign calling on the financial sector to develop products and services that are specifically designed to meet the needs of marginalised women.
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Henning Ringholz

Meet Henning Ringholz, Senior Executive for the Small Foundation and the focus of this week’s Business Fights Poverty Spotlight podcast. Henning and the Small Foundation are on a mission to help end extreme poverty in sub-Saharan Africa by supporting initiatives that improve the business ecosystems that proliferate income opportunities.
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WE SOLVE: A Unique Partnership Creates Jobs for Women and Breaks the Barriers to Clean Energy

The Arusha region is home to Tanzania’s nomadic Maasai and other communities who farm and herd in the plains around Mount Meru. Communities here face life without light as soon as the sun sets, meaning that kids can’t play in the streets or study and families are often dependent on expensive and toxic fuel-powered resources to do their daily chores. It is also here that women are seeking a livelihood so they can take care of their families.
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Paul Polak

Listen to this week’s Business Fights Poverty Spotlight podcast and hear from Paul Polak.
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How Can We Optimise Business Impact to Solve Complex Challenges? 5 Insights from the Ice Academy

Ben & Jerry’s, and The Entrepreneurial Refugee Network have plans to scale-up their Ice Academy programme in 2019. Having learned plenty along the way, how did these partners come together so effectively? Cat Baron, European Social Mission Programme Officer, Ben & Jerry’s and Charlie Fraser, Head of Partnerships and Co-Founder, TERN tell us more.
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The Tide is Coming in for Indonesia’s Seaweed

Do you know much about seaweed farming? No? Well, neither did we until our interest was piqued by a story in The Jakarta Post about a development project in Indonesia.
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Business Integrity Initiative: Changing the Way We Do Business in Africa?

The Ethics 1st program of the US Centre for International Private Enterprise (CIPE) and the Business Integrity Initiative of the UK Government seek to put businesses from the US and the UK in touch with companies in Africa (and elsewhere) that are certified as anti-bribery and anti-corruption compliant. 230,000+ UK SMEs need clean business partners and intermediaries. Is this a business opportunity for your country?
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Can Global Partners Collaborate with Local Entrepreneurs and Find Solutions to Urgent Urban Water Challenges in Bangalore?

A recent report predicted that Bangalore might be the next major city to face water shortages. The National Institution for Transforming India (NITI) expects Bangalore to run out of groundwater within just two years – this is in addition to the challenges that the booming city already faces in terms of water sanitation.
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How Can an Ecosystem Approach Help MSMEs to Thrive?

The need to adopt a more collaborative, SME ecosystem strengthening approach is increasingly understood, but there remains little in the way of practical guidance to help large companies to make this shift. A new Challenge brings together a group of companies and foundations with an interest in supporting MSMEs to learn from their experience and to help fill this gap.
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Get Involved: New Challenges on Gender-Based Violence, SME Ecosystems, Transformational Partnerships and Purpose

Business Fights Poverty’s Challenge approach brings together people from across our community and beyond who are passionate about tackling specific societal issues. We’re launching four new Challenges focused on Gender-Based Violence, SME Ecosystems, Transformational Partnerships and Purpose. Learn more and get involved!
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Skoll World Forum 2019 Ecosystem Event

This Skoll World Forum 2019 Ecosystem jointly hosted by Acumen and Business Fights Poverty and sponsored by Hershey, will explore how corporations, social enterprises,
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How Can Business Partner to Drive Responsible Sourcing?

Join this online discussion to dive into the challenges of responsible sourcing, the impacts to business and society when done well, and not so
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How Can Business Partner to Drive Responsible Sourcing?

Join us as we explore how businesses are forging partnerships with others to make the sourcing of food and agriculture sustainable, inclusive and a force for good. This live written discussion will take place on Thursday 25 April 15:00 BST / 10:00 EDT
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What do we mean by "Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises"?

Explore how empowering micro, small, and medium enterprises (SMEs) can drive economic development and reduce poverty by fostering innovation and job creation.

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