Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

Promoting Diversity, Equity, Inclusion to Fight Poverty

It’s time to collect more and better gender-disaggregated supply chain data

Data is essential in today’s world. In the context of global supply chains, data is the cornerstone of effective human rights due diligence and risk assessment. Without the necessary data, businesses will fall short in addressing and preventing risks to workers and mitigating harm that may be caused as a result of their business operations.
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Diversity and Inclusion and Climate Change: Spreading the Benefits and Burdens Fairly

Join us for this live written panel discussion to explore Diversity and Inclusion and Climate Change: spreading the benefits and burdens fairly. This event is part of an online discussion series from April-May 2022 to inform business action at COP 27, Egypt, Nov 7-18. LIVE Panel Thursday 5 May, 10am-11am EST/ 3pm-4pm BST
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Using gender data to translate inclusion strategies into programming reality

The face of farming is female in much of the world. At the same time, little is known about rural women’s access to resources, the diversity of their income and how they use their time. Closing the gender data gap makes women in agriculture visible and allows programmes and their partners to realise inclusive impact.
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How can business help strengthen the care economy?

Hosted with the International Development Research Centre (IDRC) Investing in the care economy is critical to progress on gender equality and to ensuring an
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Switching to digital delivery during COVID-19: Key lessons

The Cherie Blair Foundation WEAVE project ran in Indonesia and Vietnam in 2020 and 2021. It successfully supported over 12,000 women entrepreneurs through our three online programmes – in the midst of the global pandemic. Alice Allan, Challenge Director at Business Fights Poverty, explores some of the key lessons learned from switching to digital delivery in order to continue working through the crisis.
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Empowering women and inspiring youth: Reflections from Stephanie Lamma Ewi

Ewi Stephanie Lamma works directly with women who rely on forests, and speaks movingly of their breakthroughs as women. She stresses the benefits of women’s environmental leadership to the wider community, quoting the Cameroonian proverb: “If you train a man, you have just trained one person. If you train a woman, you have trained a nation.”
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A Fairer Future for All Means Gender Equality Now

Fairtrade is a critical tool for achieving gender equality and fairness. And it is why Fairtrade certified cooperatives do better than non-certified ones in women’s representation in leadership positions. But we cannot do it alone. Businesses everywhere must enact policies that support gender equality on the ground, in their supply chains, and in their boardrooms.
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Turning an Onboarding Exercise into a Knowledge Hub for Gender Mainstreaming

iDE’s innovation lab specializes in human-centered design. They have identified three user journeys to guide users to those resources that can help address gender in the workplace according to where you are currently in your level of mainstreaming as well as your size and the type of their organization.
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Gender Summit 2022

On March 9th we first discussed how business can prevent and tackle GBV in their workplaces and supply chains in a session co-hosted with Avon.
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What is a value chain? And why you should care.

Farmer-centered agricultural value chains are a critical pathway to help vulnerable people provide nutritious food for their families and communities, while earning a Sustainable Living Income. Heifer Impact Capital is working to transform value chains that traditionally exclude farmers by deploying financing to optimize local value chains to keep income in the pockets of farmers.
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What can we learn from women leaders in the fight for climate justice?

What can we learn from women leaders in the fight for climate justice?
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Living income and gender: adopting gender transformative approaches to improve livelihoods

Lily Petkova from ISEAL discusses the gender barriers that affect the income of female smallholder farmers and how we can apply a gender lens to transformative approaches when considering a living income.
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Gender 2022 – Day 2 Webinar 2

Our webinar explored “How can business help strengthen the care economy?” emphasizing the care economy’s importance for gender equity progress. Experts shared business actions
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Gender 2022 – Day 2 Webinar 1

Our webinar explored “How can businesses help prevent and tackle GBV in the workplace and value chain?” with a focus on ending violence and
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Spotlighting Fairtrade and Aldi UK’s ‘Dignity for All’ – a programme for female flower workers

This International Women’s Day, Fairtrade Foundation spotlight how their relationship with Aldi UK went from sourcing to becoming longstanding programme partners, and how it has supported women, including Meseret Teshome who didn’t have the opportunity to progress with her education when she was young.
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Jiselle and Cesar, On Gender Transformative Approaches

Cesar and Jiselle share some of their 30 plus years of experience working on women’s empowerment. Together they have recently been working on ‘gender transformative approaches.’ Cesar and Jiselle deep dive into what this means and the practicalities of implementing gender transformative approaches – for businesses everywhere, across value chains.
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Gender 2022 – Day 1 Webinar 1

Our webinar explored “What can we learn from women leaders in the fight for climate justice?” by discussing barriers impacting women and solutions for
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Gender 2022 – Day 1 Webinar 2

Our webinar explored “How can we drive gender equity through responsible sourcing?” and examined the potential of responsible sourcing to improve millions of women
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Women as drivers of climate resilience

Mars has long-standing commitments to act on climate change and empower women. Now, the company is connecting these two areas of focus. In this article, Lisa Manley explains why women are at the core of climate resilience and how companies can support them.
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Business and the Ukraine Crisis: Supporting Women and the Most Vulnerable

While much has been done by the business community in response to the Ukraine crisis, much more is needed, and this must start with a better understanding of the needs of the most vulnerable people and communities. This article provides insights into understanding who the vulnerable are and advice on actions that businesses can take, along with useful links.
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What do we mean by "Diversity, Equity and Inclusion"?

Learn about strategies that promote diversity, equity, and inclusion, fostering an environment where all individuals can thrive regardless of gender or economic status.

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