Economic Development

Economic Development Strategies to Combat Global Poverty

How can business drive climate justice through supply chains? – highlight video

Hosted with Meta This session explored how business can support climate justice by building supply chain resilience, especially for those people living in the
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How can we support new voices for climate justice?

Hosted with Meta Interviewees: Amanda Gardiner, Head, Sustainability Innovation & Engagement, Meta Sophia Li, Journalist and Climate Advocate
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How can business partnerships tackle the hidden hunger through access to essential nutrients?

Hosted with Bayer Interviewees: Daniella Foster, Senior Vice President and Global Head of Public Affairs, Science and Sustainability, Consumer Health Division, Bayer Minaud Dacius,
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How can business partner to help small retailers thrive? Lessons from the country-level

Hosted with AB InBev Across the value chains of companies like AB InBev, there is a network of millions of entrepreneurs – from small-scale
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How can we accelerate access to clean water, sanitation and hygiene?

Hosted with Reckitt The pandemic and effects of climate change are creating a challenging terrain with high levels of water stress impacting the most
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How can multi-stakeholder platforms drive engagement and behaviour change? Lessons from addressing health issues in East Africa

Hosted with Amref and the National Business Compact on Coronavirus Focused on learnings from an ambitious multi-stakeholder platform tackling COVID-19 in East Africa, this
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How can business support vulnerable people and communities in the face of the poverty tsunami?

COVID, conflict and climate change are among a confluence of challenges driving a tsunami of poverty that is already crashing into the lives of
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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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How can business help drive a more equitable society?

Hosted with Barclays Interviewees: Stella Tran, Senior Associate, Acumen America April Dominguez, CEO, Handsome App
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How do you create a sustainable and ethical supply chain for decarbonization? Lessons from mining

Hosted with Anglo American The session focused on how to create sustainable and ethical supply chains for decarbonization. It built on many of the
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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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What difference does tackling restrictive gender norms make to micro-enterprise and other social impact programmes?

Hosted with Hand in Hand International Gender norms restrict the lives of women and girls across the world. Drawing on new research and key
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How do we build a living wage movement?

Welcome by Zahid and Yvette Torres-Rahman, Founders, Business Fights Poverty Followed by a Fireside Chat with: Marina Leal, Sustainability and Human Rights Manager, Natura
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How do we apply a climate justice lens to build business and community resilience?

This session, hosted with Change by Degrees, explored how businesses can put people at the heart of their climate actions. What does climate justice
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How can business best support the livelihoods of refugees?

This session, hosted with Visa, explored how businesses can best support the livelihoods of refugees. What models of engagement of the business community to
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Global voices on climate justice – Highlight

We heard about insights, priorities and actions by members of our community and beyond from around the world including Fiji, Ghana, Uganda, India, Sudan,
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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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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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Effective Partnerships: Key to Supporting Climate Vulnerable Communities

Practical Action’s purpose for almost 60 years has been to work with people living in poverty so that they can transform their lives and influence wider systems change so that the changes can be sustained and scaled. This now means that almost everything we do with communities, business or government includes dealing with the impacts of the climate crisis.
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