Global Goals

Achieving Global Goals for Poverty Eradication

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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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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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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Daniella Foster

The tourism industry already accounts for 10.4% GDP and employs 313 million people; find out why Hilton is on a social and environmental mission to ensure its future. Katie Hyson, Director of Thought Leadership at Business Fights Poverty interviews Daniella Foster, Senior Director of Global Corporate Responsibility at Hilton Hotels and Resorts
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Two Weeks to Go and Acumen Explore Investing in Impact

Business Fights Poverty’s flagship Oxford conference takes place on 18th July, with just two weeks to go we are pleased to introduce Acumen as our partners leading the Impact Investing zone.
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Dominic White

Marking the launch of Measuring Up, the UK Stakeholders for Sustainable Development’s (UKSSD) first stock take of progress across the UK against all the 169 targets identified in the SDGs, Business Fights Poverty’s Katie Hyson caught up with Dominic White, co-founder and co-chair of UK-SSD, as well as Head of International Development Policy at WWF-UK.
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Advocating Together for the SDGs

A report on how business and civil society can collaborate on advocacy for government policies in support of the SDGs. With Anglo American GSK, Mars Inc, International Alert, Oxfam, Save the Children and the Corporate Responsibility Initiative, Harvard Kennedy School.
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The Role of Business in Education and Training for Sustainable Development

A report on the role of business in supporting education and the SDGs. With Pearson, Arizona State University, and PRME, United Nations Global Compact.
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Partnerships with Innovation and Impact

On 18th July our flagship Business Fights Poverty Oxford conference takes place. This interactive day will explore how to enhance business with positive social impact, through collaboration and building trusted relationships. Our friends at Ethicore and The Partnering Initiative are leading the Partnership Zone and will be challenging attendees to think differently about impact partnerships.
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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 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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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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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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What do we mean by "Global Goals"?

Explore how achieving Global Goals can drive systemic changes and end poverty by fostering sustainable development and equality worldwide.

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