Economic Development

Economic Development Strategies to Combat Global Poverty

Professionalising African Motorcycle Taxis: From Vitamins to Painkillers

Rwanda-based motorcycle taxi company SafeMotos is taking the app-based transport service idea, made famous by Uber, a step further by ensuring its product is based on the local needs of both passengers and drivers. SafeMotos joined Business Call to Action with a pledge to ensure more female drivers; to reduce road accidents and to increase incomes.
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Investing In The Energy Transition

The Private Financing Advisory Network (PFAN) bridges the gap between investors and entrepreneurs. It identifies promising clean energy projects at an early stage and provides no-cost coaching and investment facilitation. When in place, these measures make it easier for investors to understand a project’s potential, increasing the odds that they will make an investment.
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Advocating Together to Promote the Value of Overseas Development Assistance

Last year, the new US administration proposed significant funding cuts to US overseas development assistance. In response, both CARE USA and Mars decided to advocate jointly to policy makers in the US Congress to make the case that US government aid spending should be maintained at current levels.
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Care Work Matters: Advocating for Greater Recognition of Unpaid Care and Domestic Work

Oxfam, Unilever and Surf have come together to jointly advocate for public policies that recognise the burden of unpaid care and domestic work, and reduce and redistribute time spent on unpaid care and domestic work by girls and women through better access to public services, infrastructure and social protection policies.
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Advocating Together for the Voluntary Principles on Security and Human Rights

International Alert, a peacebuilding organisation with over 30 years’ experience, and Anglo American, one of the world’s leading mining companies, share how they are working together to advocate for more respect for human rights and greater understanding of conflict-sensitivity within the extractive sector.
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Advocating Together for Universal Health Coverage

How can we strengthen business-NGO advocacy partnerships for the SDGs? GSK and Save the Children share their insights on advocating together for universal health coverage.
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The Business Case for a Gender Audit 


The IFC has developed a gender toolkit for companies in the infrastructure and natural resources sectors, offering a roadmap to conducting such an audit and designing a customized action plan to address obstacles to equality and inclusion in the workplace, across the supply chain, and in the communities in which they operate or invest.
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Joint Civil Society – Business Advocacy Is Emerging as a Powerful Tool to Drive Policy Change in Support of the SDGs

Civil society and business are increasingly seeing joint advocacy as a valuable tool to overcome limitations with individual advocacy. Our new guide to advocacy collaboration highlights three opportunities to drive change in support of the SDGs, as well as six key building blocks for responsible and effective advocacy collaboration.
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Bringing Business Back Home: Biomass Energy of Sri Lanka

Biomass Supplies, a Sri Lankan subsidiary of Biomass Group – the visionary renewable energy company – is developing Sri Lanka’s abundant sustainable energy resources through innovative partnerships with the country’s smallholder farmers.
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Entrepreneurs Are Changing The World

The CEMEX-Tec Award, in alliance with other organisations, annually recognises entrepreneurs and students who develop high-impact initiatives to foster sustainable development, innovation and entrepreneurship. This year its global call will receive projects until May 31st 2018.
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How can joint advocacy between civil society and business help to drive the policies needed to achieve the SDGs?

Click here to join this discussion on 22 May (3 – 4pm UK time) with a panel of panel of business and civil society organisations in the vanguard of joint advocacy.
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Sweet Dreams Coming True For Syrian Refugees

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Business Fights Poverty NYC 2018

Join us for our annual UNGA week event, co-hosted with Barclays and GSK.  This half-day event, from 10.30am to 2.30pm, will include an inspiring
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Business Fights Poverty Oxford 2018

Join us for our annual flagship event at Saïd Business School, University of Oxford, with the theme Rethinking Collaboration for Social Impact.  The one-day
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Meet the Longlist: Unilever Global Development Award, Supported by Business Fights Poverty

Business in the Community announce the longlist of companies selected for the The Unilever Global Development Award, supported by Business Fights Poverty. The award recognises businesses that demonstrate positive impact against one or more of the United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
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From Gender Lens to Inclusive Impact Investment

By defining and disaggregating the ways investments empower women, beyond the very rudimentary criteria of solely investing in women, gender lens investing is helping to create frameworks and tools for the industry as a whole.
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Formal Finance and Informal Groups: Inside the Black Box

A successful business case for linkages must offer something useful to all involved parties. This means looking ‘inside the black box’ of different mindsets: the bank or microfinance institution, the fintech or platform provider; and the informal savings groups. As well as figuring out how to build long-term relationships between the complexities of these diverse mindsets.
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Gib Bulloch

Meet Gib Bulloch, Intrapreneur turned author, Intrapreneur-in-Residence at Business Fights Poverty, a Steward of The League of Intrapreneurs and a Visiting Fellow of Social Intrapreneurship at Cranfield School of Management.
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Helping Refugees Move From Crisis To Resilience and Self-Reliance

Introducing our new Challenge on Business and Refugees with support from Pearson and in partnership with UNHCR, Mercy Corps, Business Call to Action, Innovest Advisory and Thomson Reuters Foundation. The Challenge aims to strengthen the foundation for effective partnerships to improve refugees’ wellbeing and educational and livelihood opportunities so refugees can thrive, not just survive.
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Charting a Course for Robust Private Sector Engagement

MCC share the highlights from their recent Advisory Council meeting in Washington, D.C. The gathering brought together Council members with deep subject area expertise, representing a variety of U.S. industries, to provide specific feedback on agency plans, as well as advice on how MCC can improve its engagement with the business community.
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