Gender

Empowering Through Gender Equality Initiatives

Ayan Said, Voicing Voices

Ayan provides practical tools and tips to help us all, and particularly business decision makers to create the spaces for better communication.
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Systems Theory Through a Gender Lens

The potential to incorporate a systems approach into a fund structure represents new thinking on how to evaluate opportunities, support businesses, increase impact, measure impact, and shape entire markets to reduce the gender gap.
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How does gender equity drive resilience for women and for business?

Gender equity is a driver of resilience, both for women and also for the businesses that work with them across their value chains. In
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What can we learn from women leaders in the fights for climate justice

What can we learn from women leaders in the fight for climate justice? – full video

This session explored the central theme of International Women’s Day – the important role that women leaders are playing in driving a more sustainable
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How can we drive gender equity through responsible sourcing?

Hosted with UN Foundation Responsible Sourcing holds the promise to improve the lives of millions of women workers globally. Corporate leaders have offered researchers
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Gender Summit 2022

On March 8th, sessions included how gender equity can drive resilience for women and for business; what we can learn from women leaders in
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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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Regenerative agriculture and women farmers

Engage with our featured content to discover the value of regenerative agriculture, and how companies, NGOs and farmers are utilising this approach to create profit, gender-inclusivity and climate resilience.
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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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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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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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Bridging the gender digital divide and improving girls’ self-esteem – An opportunity to partner with UNICEF

Over the past 3 years UNICEF and Dove have partnered to adapt and integrate Dove’s evidence-based self-esteem and body confidence curriculum (DSEP) within UNICEF’s ongoing collaboration with ministries of education and the private sector across 3 countries. Read on to learn more.
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16 Days of Activism: Essential resources from the Business Fights Poverty resident gender expert

This year 16 Days of Activism against Gender-based Violence kicked off on 25 November, the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, and runs until 10 December, Human Rights Day. We invited our resident Gender Expert, Alice Allan to share her top resources on how businesses can take the lead in tackling gender-based violence in the workplace.
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16 Days of Activism: Essential resources from the Business Fights Poverty resident gender expert

16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence kicked off on 25 November, the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, and ran until 10 December, Human Rights Day. We invited our resident Gender Expert, Alice Allan to share her top resources on how businesses can take the lead in tackling gender-based violence in the workplace.
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Putting People at the Heart of Climate Action: 3 Reasons Business Must Care

We’re just over two weeks away from a critical milestone in the fight against climate change. The UK will host the COP26 climate conference, bringing together countries to enhance their commitments for the first time since they made them under the Paris Agreement in 2015. Zahid Torres-Rahman shares 3 reasons why business must put people at the heart of climate justice.
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Why does so little funding go to women entrepreneurs, and what can we do about it?

According to the World Economic Forum, it will take over 250 years to achieve gender economic parity. Currently, only two per cent of venture capital goes to women-led startups. While investing in women entrepreneurs alone cannot fix the problem, it could help bridge this gap and reap benefits for men and women alike. What can bankers, entrepreneurs, and support organisations do to shift more capital to women entrepreneurs?
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The pandemic, supply chains and gendered impacts

Rita Mendez, impacts senior coordinator at ISEAL, shares the findings of a recent paper on gender and gender risks across the supply chain.
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Women, Family and Contraceptives

Watch this Fireside with Bayer on Women, Family and Contraceptives. SPEAKERS: Mildred Nadah Pita, Head Global Health Programs/Sustainability,  Middle Africa, Bayer Dr. Claus Runge,
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COVID-19 recovery: Why childcare must be part of the plan

As countries struggle to address the economic and health costs of COVID-19, finding solutions for mothers in informal employent will be important. Governments, donors, and businesses will need to invest in care — and will need to know what works and what doesn’t in reaching the most vulnerable families.
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What do we mean by "Gender"?

Explore initiatives focused on gender equality, which are essential for promoting human rights and reducing global poverty. Click through to learn more...

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