Economic Development

Economic Development Strategies to Combat Global Poverty

Laura Kelly

In our latest leader spotlight interview we hear first hand from the inside of the UK’s Department for International Development (DFID). Katie Hyson, Business Fights Poverty’s Director of Thought Leadership, catches up with Laura Kelly, former Team Leader for DFID’s Business Engagement Hub.
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Building Scalable and Self-Sustaining Safe Water Enterprises

Jon Shepard shares why he see grounds for optimism in reaching the UN Sustainable Development Goal of equitable access to safe, affordable drinking water for all by 2030. In particular the growing number of impact entrepreneurs who are innovating new models for the scalable and sustainable provision of safe water in underserved communities.
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Why Going All in for Sustainability Makes It More Likely a Business Will Encourage Its Intrapreneurs

In their new book “All In – The Future of Business Leadership,” David Grayson, Chris Coulter and Mark Lee argue that businesses can no longer afford to be hesitant or half-hearted about sustainability. They have to be “All In!”
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Partnerships Cultivate Change in the Niger Delta

Mamadou Beye, Government and Public Affairs General Manager at Chevron discusses Chevron’s Global Memorandum of Understanding (GMoU) partnership approach in the Niger Delta, with insights on how the GMoU community impact model has empowered conflict resolution and encouraged locally-developed economic initiatives
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Investing in Africa: The UK announces its ambition to become the leading G7 investor in Africa

As the UK announces its ambition to become the leading G7 investor in Africa, Charlie Hare, Director of Global Operations at Business Fights Poverty, explores what this means for responsible businesses committed to scaling the quantity and quality of their investments.
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The Global Sanitation Crisis Presents Lucrative Business Opportunities

At the recent World Water Week 2018, the Toilet Board Coalition explored the commercial and social impact opportunities for businesses willing to engage in the sanitation crisis. What exactly is the sanitation economy? And what role can business and government play?
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Animal Medicine on the Move: Delivering Agro-Vet Services to Pastoralists

TechnoServe share insights from their Innovation in Outcome Measurement (IOM) project— a two-year program to develop and test cheaper, better, and faster ways of collecting key agricultural data— partnered with the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) and the Kenya Markets Trust (KMT) to evaluate creative new ways of providing commercial agro-vet services to pastoralists.
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Sue Garrard

Business Fights Poverty’s Katie Hyson, Director of Thought Leadership catches up with Sue Garrard, former Unilever SVP for Sustainable Business Development and Communications. During the interview Sue explores the development and convergence of PR, employee engagement and societal impact within business; before sharing her career advice, providing insight into what motivates and inspires her.
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8 SSIR Articles on Businesses Pursuing a Social Mission

Stanford Social Innovation Review curate eight articles from their archives- specifically for Business Fights Poverty—that offer insight into how companies can successfully orient themselves around purpose, both internally and externally, to reap its many rewards.
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How to Set up Global Partnerships for Impact and Success

Katie Hyson, Director of Thought Leadership at Business Fights Poverty caught up with the team from Novo Nordisk to talk about their new partnership, which aims to help ensure access to diabetes medicines and healthcare, is accessible to all.
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Galvanizing Businesses to Generate Positive Social Impact Through Impact Sourcing

The Impact Sourcing Challenge is the first of its kind to specifically focus on escalating impact sourcing as a way to increase employment and career development opportunities for disadvantaged workers.
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Watch the Videos: Business Fights Poverty Oxford 2018

On 18 July, over 300 individuals from business, civil society and government came together for Business Fights Poverty Oxford 2018 to explore the themes of business, purpose and collaboration. Watch the videos of the plenary sessions.
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Business and the SDGs – WBCSD’s key takeaways from the 2018 High-level Political Forum on Sustainable Development

WBCSD share key takeaways from the recent 2018 High-level Political Forum on Sustainable Development, the UN’s central platform for follow-up and review of the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
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Walking Beyond Tokenism

The link between Fair trade and climate change is complex but interconnected. By subscribing to the former, you help alleviate the effects of the latter. Pushpanath Krishnamurthy has taken 30 million steps in support of climate justice and the fairtrade movement. Read about his remarkable journey so far.
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From Produce to Profits: How Mobile Technology Is Strengthening the Livelihoods of Spinach Growers

Technoserve share their case study on innovative models for creating a profitable agribusiness that builds wealth in small farming communities of East Africa. Learn more about Kenyan agribusiness Akili Group, a firm using information and communication technology to improve upon the traditional out-grower models.
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Why, and How, Business Needs to Change its Approach to the SDGs

Shift, in collaboration with WBCSD, has launched a first-of-its-kind compendium of 15 real-life case studies that illustrate what various individual companies and collaborative initiatives are doing to put business respect for human rights into practice and how those efforts go beyond “doing no harm” to show great promise in making powerful and positive contributions to the SDGs.
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Want More Intrapreneurs in Your Organisation?  Create the Right Culture

An update on the findings so far, of the Intrapreneur Systems Challenge, launched earlier this year with the objective deepening our understanding of the features that need to be in place at a systemic level within an organisation to catalyse and support more innovative and impact-driven initiatives getting off the ground and reaching scale.
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Sizakele Marutlulle

This week Katie Hyson, Director of Thought Leadership at Business Fights Poverty interviews Sizakele Marutlulle, Founder and CEO of communications strategy company: Marutlulle +CO. Sizakele talks to us in anticipation of her keynote speaker role during the Business Fights Poverty flagship 2018 Oxford conference.
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Henriette Kolb

An Interview with Henriette Kolb, Head of the Gender Secretariat at the International Finance Corporation. Henriette takes listeners on a journey through the challenges of addressing gender inequality, before explaining why the IFC is focusing on balancing the roles of carers, creating access to finance for female entrepreneurs and understanding how women can get ahead in the sharing economy.
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Emeritus Professor David Grayson, CBE

Katie Hyson, Director of Thought Leadership at Business Fights Poverty interviews Emeritus Professor David Grayson, CBE
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