Economic Development

Economic Development Strategies to Combat Global Poverty

How to social impact partner with Clive Allison and Nivedha RM

How to find your perfect social impact partner, and why partnering with social entrepreneurs is vital explain Clive Allison, Unilever and social entrepreneur Nivedha RM
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Mobile money with Ashley Onyango

Ashley explores the positive impacts of mobile money and examines the challenges that remain.
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Sustainability Strategy & Innovation with Mario Elias Gonzalez

Sustainability Strategy & Innovation with Mario Elias Gonzalez. Leading thinking to drive responsible and inclusive business deep into the core of companies.
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NEW REPORT – The Case for Living Wages

Our new report calls for living wages to be embraced as an investment in business success and a key step towards ending in-work poverty. The report demonstrates how living wages benefit core operations, value chains and the wider operating environment and enable businesses to better meet their human rights commitments. It is time for businesses, investors and governments to realise the right to a living wage for hundreds of millions of workers worldwide.
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Why decolonizing philanthropy is important now more than ever and how to achieve it

The InteRoots Initiative believes that what is made for the community should be by the community. Communities should decide how to best represent and govern endeavors through community-based systems. InteRoots works as a partner to communities to offer support, financial empowerment and resources.
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Prioritising engaging with workers and other stakeholders for human rights

Ensuring corporate respect for human rights is fundamentally about people. To ensure that their actions to prevent and address human rights harm are effective, it is essential that companies engage with affected people and communities. Unfortunately, most companies are failing to undertake such stakeholder engagement.
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Facing The Poverty Tsunami: How Business Can Support the Lives, Livelihoods and Access to Learning of the Most Vulnerable People and Communities

COVID, conflict and climate change are among a confluence of challenges driving a tsunami of poverty that is already crashing into the lives of vulnerable people and communities around the world. This article explores these trends and the role businesses can and should play.
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Climate Risk, Adaptation & Resilience with Swenja Surminski, IPCC

Climate Risk, Adaptation & Resilience with Swenja Surminski, IPCC. Swenja provides practical ways to embed climate risk across decision-making.
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Engendering Regeneration for Supply Chains that Last

ICRW explain how food systems unleash women’s full potential to advance sustainable businesses and foster deeper resilience in the communities that nourish the world.
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Chocolate supply chains with Shawn Askinosie

How to build resilience chocolate supply chains? Social enterprise founder, ethical chocolate CEO: Shawn Askinosie shares his insights.
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The path to living wages for low-paid workers worldwide

Sector-wide action across supply chains is key to making living wages a reality for workers in low-income countries, says the Fairtrade Foundation’s Naomi Somerville-Large.
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Inclusive business models can help close the gender gap

Four lessons from GROW on how to sustain and scale inclusive business models to address the economic and the non-economic constraints women face.
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Race to the top: How we pushed supermarkets to take human rights seriously

From new gender policies to commitments on living wages, Oxfam have come a long way since they published its first supermarkets scorecard in 2018. Radhika Sarin explains what does the 2022 scorecard reveals and what more must be done.
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Tackling global warming through the promotion of clean cooking energy in Ghana

The world’s poor are continuously affected by the low availability of sustainable and reliable energy, with increasing difficulty in remote areas. Modern energy services are crucial to human well-being as well as to countries’ economic development. Mark Kojo Medegli, Sustainability Leader of United People Global, explains what the way forward looks like.
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Women at the Center of Africa’s Post-Pandemic Recovery 

Women will play a central role in reviving African economies after Covid-19… Tribune by Julienne Lusenge, co-founder and president of Women’s Solidarity for Inclusive Peace and Development, and Natalie Africa, Senior Advisor to the Africa Director of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
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Development Finance Institutions with Andrew Palmer, BII

Andrew explains why the UK’s development finance institution is going through a rebrand and what the plans are going forward. He shares with us just how we can all get involved, partner and help shape their work.
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How can a company’s climate change commitments be better informed by those most impacted?

Join us for this live written panel discussion to explore How can a company’s climate change commitments be better informed by those most impacted? This event is part of an online discussion series from April-May 2022 to inform business action at COP 27, Egypt, Nov 7-18. LIVE Panel Thursday 12 May, 10am-11am EST/ 3pm-4pm BST
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Rosa Wang, mobile technology frontiers

Rosa Wang, social impact pioneer, examines how mobile technology frontiers are providing financial access, connectivity, identity and empowerment for people across the world – from Kenya to India.
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How the business community is stepping up in support of Ukrainian children and their families

UNICEF is appealing for $349 million to provide life-saving support for children and their families. This funding will help to support over 3.5 million people, including 2.2 million children, and the business community has responded at an unprecedented speed and volume.
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Switching to digital delivery during COVID-19: Key lessons

The Cherie Blair Foundation WEAVE project ran in Indonesia and Vietnam in 2020 and 2021. It successfully supported over 12,000 women entrepreneurs through our three online programmes – in the midst of the global pandemic. Alice Allan, Challenge Director at Business Fights Poverty, explores some of the key lessons learned from switching to digital delivery in order to continue working through the crisis.
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What do we mean by "Economic Development"?

Explore how economic growth can significantly reduce poverty through innovative business initiatives and strategic planning. Join us in making a difference.

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