Economic Development

Economic Development Strategies to Combat Global Poverty

From Response to Rebuilding Better

Business Fights Poverty convened an online discussion on 14 May 2020 to examine how business can build purposeful collaborations to support the resilience and recovery of those most vulnerable to COVID-19. What examples of business best practice are available, and what practical actions could assist with the recovery and rebuilding better during and post COVID-19?
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New Ways of Thinking, Convening, Leading

WWF is supporting the Business for Nature Coalition in convening a major global leadership event on 15 June to address the vital role of nature in building a resilient future for everyone. This unique virtual event will bring together CEOs from five large multinational companies with the heads of key UN institutions in exactly the type of conversation and collaboration we need to grow in the coming months.
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TWO WEEKS IN ONE!

Carers Week and Global Intrapreneur Week – taking place in the same week: two weeks in one. For me though these “two weeks in one” are not just a diary clash as two of my passions – by strange coincidence – choose the same week to promote their cause. Rather, they are a stimulus to reflect on how intrapreneurism can help improve support for carers – and why, in the future, caring should inspire more social intrapreneurs.
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How Can We Help Business Rebuild Better Post COVID-19?

Join us for an online written discussion with a panel of experts and members from our community to explore how we can help business rebuild better post COVID-19. This live panel takes place on Thursday 25th June, 3.00pm – 4.00pm GMT / 10am-11am EDT
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Put Collaboration at the Heart of Global Efforts to Re-build MSMEs Post COVID-19

New guide provides insights on how sectors can work together to remove the systemic barriers that stand in the way of MSMEs re-building from the crisis
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Technology and the Workplace: Putting People First

Work is the engine at the center of our economies. Shaping a future of work where people can thrive is essential for the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals. (WBCSD) have collaborated to develop shared business principles aimed at putting people first when it comes to the impact of technology on how work is carried out by direct employees, contract and temporary workers, and workers throughout the supply chain
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Purposeful Collaboration to Fight COVID-19

While the focus has rightly been on responding to the most immediate impacts of COVID-19, we need to start thinking now about how to recover and “rebuild better”. Please share your advice on how we can best support this collective effort.
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Lessons for COVID-19-era CEOs

When the global economy is in crisis, the call for corporations to “lead with empathy” is no longer theoretical. Jane Nelson, founding director of the Corporate Responsibility Initiative at the Harvard Kennedy School, offers guidance.
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Holding Course in the Middle of a Storm: Navigating the Deeply Disrupted Decade Ahead

If we are to truly recover from COVID-19, then it will not be about putting things back together to how they were – we need to build back better and address these deep systemic vulnerabilities that have been allowed to develop over the last decades. So what are the main challenges ahead and how will business navigate them?
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How Can Partnerships Create Rapid Innovation During COVID-19 Crisis?

COVID-19 requires rapid action, and it requires innovation. This unprecedented challenge demands that we overcome organisational and sector boundaries and join forces. A number of companies have managed to move extremely fast on innovating COVID-19 responses. Usually, these kinds of partnerships take months if not years to develop. Instead these are taking days and weeks.
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In Emerging Markets, Entrepreneurial Support Organizations are Key to the COVID-19 Economic Response

In emerging markets, the COVID-19 crisis presents an even greater economic challenge than in the United States. The American economy was the strongest in the world before the crisis. Even now, under widespread stay-at-home orders, US unemployment has risen to only 20%, whereas most emerging market countries started the year with formal unemployment rates well above 20%.
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How to Ensure MSMEs Thrive Post COVID-19?

Join us for an online written discussion with a panel of experts to explore how we can ensure MSMEs thrive post COVID-19. The live
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How to Ensure MSMEs Thrive Post COVID-19?

Join us for an online written discussion with a panel of experts to explore how we can ensure MSMEs thrive post COVID-19. Taking place on Thursday, Thursday 4 June, 3pm BST/ 10am EDT
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Dominic McVey

If you want to hear first-hand insight of the impact of COVID-19 on factory workers in emerging markets, this podcast is for you. Meet Dominic McVey; Entrepreneur, Board member and adviser with companies, INGOs and governments in Sri Lanka, Ethiopia and Kenya. During our conversation Dominic provides candid insights of the effects of COVID-19 on vulnerable workers, value chains and the systems that support them
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Rapid Innovation Through Partnerships

The novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic has spread rapidly around the world, creating the worst humanitarian and economic crisis in a generation. The response to this pandemic has needed to be equally rapid and innovation has been required at many levels. Private sector partnerships have been playing an important role in generating creative solutions.
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How Can Business Build Purposeful Collaborations to Support the Resilience and Recovery of Those Most Vulnerable to COVID-19?

Join us for an online discussion to explore how can business build purposeful collaborations to support the resilience and recovery of those most vulnerable to COVID-19. Thursday 14th May 3pm BST / 10am EDT
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From ‘Immediate Response’ to ‘Rebuilding Better’: Public Webinar and Online Discussion

In recent weeks, it has become clear that COVID-19 will sadly continue to have devastating impacts on the lives, livelihoods and learning of millions of people for the foreseeable future, and will exacerbate existing inequalities. As we come to terms with this new reality, what can we learn from the immediate response to the pandemic, and how can we use this knowledge to help us to recover and rebuild better?
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A Just Transition that Leaves No One Behind

World Benchmarking Alliance (WBA) will assess and benchmark the 2000 most influential companies on their SDG contributions. WBA recognises that a social transformation underpins the systems transformations that must happen to achieve a sustainable future. WBA recently launched the draft model for integrating social criteria into all benchmarks, to drive a ‘just transition that leaves no one behind’.
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Dan Neale

Dan Neale heads up social transformation within the World Benchmarking Alliance (WBA). With money, time and energy flowing in all directions at an unprecedented scales during the COVID-19 crisis – Dan explains why data and measurement are vital to ensure business impact is positive, real and lasting.
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How Can Business Build Purposeful Collaborations to Support the Resilience and Recovery of those Most Vulnerable to COVID-19?

Join us for an online discussion to explore how can business build purposeful collaborations to support the resilience and recovery of those most vulnerable
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