Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises

SMEs Against Global Poverty

Entrepreneurs Are Changing The World

The CEMEX-Tec Award, in alliance with other organisations, annually recognises entrepreneurs and students who develop high-impact initiatives to foster sustainable development, innovation and entrepreneurship. This year its global call will receive projects until May 31st 2018.
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Sweet Dreams Coming True For Syrian Refugees

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Meet the Longlist: Unilever Global Development Award, Supported by Business Fights Poverty

Business in the Community announce the longlist of companies selected for the The Unilever Global Development Award, supported by Business Fights Poverty. The award recognises businesses that demonstrate positive impact against one or more of the United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
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Helping Refugees Move From Crisis To Resilience and Self-Reliance

Introducing our new Challenge on Business and Refugees with support from Pearson and in partnership with UNHCR, Mercy Corps, Business Call to Action, Innovest Advisory and Thomson Reuters Foundation. The Challenge aims to strengthen the foundation for effective partnerships to improve refugees’ wellbeing and educational and livelihood opportunities so refugees can thrive, not just survive.
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Sustainability Standards Embrace GIS Technology

ISEAL Alliance, who represent the global movement of sustainability standards, share insights on the exponential growth of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) for sustainability and how this integrative technology is enabling standards to deliver a more tailored approach to compliance and capacity building, making certification more accessible to smallholders.
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Virtual Exchange: Students Collaborate to Tackle Social Enterprise Challenges in the Middle East

The M²GATE Virtual exchange program pairs students from Michigan & the Middle East to take on social enterprise challenges. Together they collaborate to identify a social problem in the region and come up with an entrepreneurial solution.
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Success on Every Corner: How Mom-and-Pop Shops Can Drive Growth in Africa

The Mom and Pop Shops Project, a partnership between TechnoServe, the Citi Foundation’s Pathways to Progress initiative, the elea Foundation, and others, aims to address skills gaps for micro retailers around Nairobi and Abuja. Here Technoserve share their insights about how to help micro-retailers become engines for local growth.
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5 Ways Local Markets Help Refugees Rebuild Their Lives

In the westernmost corner of Uganda, something interesting is happening. This rural area of Uganda is challenging perceptions of how refugees can contribute to the local economy. West Nile in Uganda is home to hundreds of thousands of South Sudanese refugees, and together with their Ugandan host communities, they are beginning to drive growth.
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Successful Businesswoman Inspires Entrepreneurs in Tanzania

With support from the UNIDO trade sector development programme in Tanzania, Fatma Riyami, Managing Director of NatureRipe Kilimanjaro and East African Businesswoman of the Year, grew her business rapidly, achieving an annual turnover of half a million US dollars and has gone on to inspire other women entrepreneurs in Tanzania
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Women Sea Salt Producers in Indonesia Cooperate to Seize New Economic Opportunities

MCC’s investments in Indonesia are helping to empower women salt producers to increase the quantity and quality of salt production to boost incomes. The women are benefiting from labor-reducing and energy-efficient technologies as well as training programs aimed at improving salt-making skills, financial management, marketing and more.
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A Nigérien Entrepreneur Finds Her Niche in Camel Milk

MCC’s $437 million five-year compact to strengthen agriculture sector entered into force in January. The compact will focus on improving access to water for agriculture and livestock and expanding access to markets. In this blog post, we profile Wouro Habsatou Aboubacar, who runs a camel farm outside of Niamey.
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A New Age of Startups: How Tunisia’s Millennial Entrepreneurs Are Boosting the Economy

The will of the young people of Tunisia to find solutions and innovate is clear. UNIDO’s Mashrou3i is empowering this generation to overcome the education and employment gap. Read more about this new age of startups and how Tunisia’s millennial entrepreneurs are boosting the economy.
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The Counter-intuitive Nature of ‘recovery’ Lending

What happens when disaster strikes a community that is depending on microfinance for its credit requirements? VisionFund believe the greatest benefit is seen when aid and recovery lending working together. Aid supports people at their most vulnerable, whilst the recovery lending stimulates productive economic activity.
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Growing Small Businesses Through Employee Volunteering

In 2016 Citi partnered with Balloon Ventures and VSO to launch the Volunteer Africa programme, where bankers work with high potential micro businesses in East Africa, providing support and advice to help them grow. Balloon’s insight and impact team reflect on progress made and lessons learned.
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Supporting Entrepreneurs in the Pursuit of Peace

Bpeace is a nonprofit that matches business experts with entrepreneurs in challenged economies, to help them grow their businesses and generate jobs. In this story Bpeace share some successful examples of connecting experts with growing businesses and how they believe that more jobs means more peace.
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Access to Energy Through Mobile Is Changing Lives

The mobile industry is playing a crucial role in achieving SDG 7: Universal energy access by 2030. New models to deliver energy to underserved consumers are emerging out of a convergence between mobile payments, the internet and mobile services. GSMA discuss how access to energy through mobile is changing lives
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Meet the Winner: The Olam Prize for Innovation in Food Security

At the International Forum for Food and Nutrition, four scientists were recognised for their work in finding global solutions to food security issues. Meet the winner of the Olam Prize for Innovation in Food Security, Dr Filippo Bassi, whose research could transform the lives of over 1 million smallholder farmers.
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Meet the Winners: The Louis Malassis Scientific Prize for Agriculture and Food Security

Scientists hold some of the answers to so many of today’s agricultural challenges at their fingertips. Support for this community is a vital if we are to deliver the SDGs. The Louis Malassis Prize has been established to recognise some of the brightest scientific minds. Meet the 2017 Prize winners.
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Delivering on the Promise of Inclusive Business

Inclusive business as an idea has pushed the boundaries of what is possible and it offers the potential for scale in a way that philanthropy never could. So why are there so few examples that have truly scaled? What needs to happen to deliver on the promise of inclusive business?
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Leveraging the Power of Skillanthropy

avier Guerrero of Happy Punk Panda, a Salvadoran digital media company, visited New York through Bpeace’s Fast Runner Program to meet with top digital agencies including SapientRazorfish. Bpeace talk with Marco Ambrosio, North America Growth Strategist for SapientRazorfish, about the experience.
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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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