Economic Development

Economic Development Strategies to Combat Global Poverty

Addressing Forced Labor from the Bottom Up

Forced labor, also referred to as modern slavery, is one of the most pervasive issues facing supply chains today. For our part to contribute to these efforts, Quizrr has launched a global initiative to eradicate forced labor in supply chains with the support of funding from The Walt Disney Company’s Supply Chain Investment Program.
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Boda Boda, Economic Development and the Future of Work

The BodaBoda Safety Association of Kenya (B.A.K) currently has 1.4 million registered members. 1.2 million of these are between the ages of 18-35. As an association, our entire membership base is made up of small business owners. We are developing a framework to effectively upskill and reskill for the future of work.
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How can businesses help prevent and tackle GBV in the workplace?

Hosted with Avon When incidents of Gender-Based Violence (GBV) spiked during the pandemic, many businesses stepped up. Yet organisations still have a role to
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How can business prevent and tackle GBV in their workplaces and supply chains?

Businesses are stepping up to tackle GBV. This session will bring together business and expert voices to explore recent examples, lessons and challenges. In
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Snigdha Ali and Maria May

Snigdha Ali and Maria May explain why being unbanked is a serious inequality issue and how digital financing can create economic empowerment, particularly for women in emerging markets.
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Looking ahead to 2022: climate justice, food systems and the private sector

Practical Action collate their top pieces and events, delving into the topics of climate justice, food systems and the private sector.
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A transformative journey: Kasha’s mission to provide equal health access to all women

Leading East African FemTech company, Kasha, share nine key lessons learnt from scaling their business with support from TRANSFORM. TRANSFORM is a joint initiative between Unilever, the UK’s Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO) and EY that provides grant funding and business consultancy to impact enterprises in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia.
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Together for 2022 Workshop – Partnerships

Our workshop explored “How do we transfer the learning of rapid collaboration for transformational change, learnt during the pandemic, to the challenges ahead?” Participants
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Our workshop explored “How do we transfer the learning of rapid collaboration for transformational change, learnt during the pandemic, to the challenges ahead?” Participants
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Our workshop explored “How do we transfer the learning of rapid collaboration for transformational change, learnt during the pandemic, to the challenges ahead?” Participants
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Our workshop explored “How do we transfer the learning of rapid collaboration for transformational change, learnt during the pandemic, to the challenges ahead?” Participants
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Together for 2022 Workshop – Livelihoods

Our workshop explored “How do we increase the resilience to shocks of the livelihoods of those most vulnerable during 2022?”. Participants discussed the importance
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Together for 2022 – Workshop

Our workshop explored “How do we increase the resilience to shocks of the livelihoods of those most vulnerable during 2022?”. Participants discussed the importance
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Karen Simmonds

Founder of Travel Matters and the ‘Make Travel Matter’ campaign – Karen Simmonds has been within the travel industry her entire career and joins us for this podcast to share how there could be benefits to the traveller, business, economies, the environment and to local communities if we consider travelling a bit differently.
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What If we created our own celebration days?

François Taddei, from his upcoming book Game-Changing: Together Solving the Problems of the 21st Century, writes about the importance of celebration to foster collaboration and co-creation among engaged actors, including the business community, to transform education for the future of the planet.
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Are you a social innovator working to increase access to healthcare? Apply now!

Applications are open for the Entrepreneurs for Resilience Award 2022. This competition awards impact-driven, market-based organizations that contribute to building resilient societies. This year, the award targets enterprises that increase financial access to healthcare in low-income communities.
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Sabina Alkire, University of Oxford

This conversation goes deep into examining poverty. Sabina explains how measuring multidimensional poverty can incorporate different dimensions, or aspects of poverty, to create measures tailored to each context. With colleagues at the University of Oxford this has been applied and implemented empirically to produce a Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI).
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How businesses and young people can collaborate to be a force for development

Clean water and sanitation for all is a critical Sustainable Development Goal which has only become more significant in the global pandemic. In rural Tanzania the spread of water-borne diseases affects everyday lives, so Raleigh International young people teamed up with Reckitt employees, and found an impactful way to combat this problem.
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Seeking entrepreneurs and SMEs that are innovating in the care economy

Business Fights Poverty is excited to be part of a new programme to transform the care economy and is seeking SMEs and entrepreneurs across our network to be matched with investors. Sign up by 10th December. Read on for more information!
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Powering the just transition – The biggest opportunity for inclusive business

Markus Dietrich, celebrates his 10th anniversary in the inclusive business community and reflects on the journey of the once ‘new paradigm for doing business’. How far did we get since then? Did IB end up on the dust heap of history as another management concept that was overtaken by another school of thought? Looking at the management literature one could almost think so, as now the net-positive company is being proclaimed as the new kid on the block. But IB has proven very resilient; there is even a fair share of IB in the net-positive company.
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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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