Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

Promoting Diversity, Equity, Inclusion to Fight Poverty

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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Resilience Through Refugee-Inclusive Business

A report on how more business action can strengthen the foundation for partnerships to improve refugees’ wellbeing, education, and economic inclusion so that refugees can thrive, not just survive. Includes deep-dives into digital education, inclusive business and off-grid energy. With Pearson, Business Call To Action, Mercy Corps, Thomson Reuters Foundation, UNHCR and Innovest Advisory.
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CARE Examine the Importance of Gender Equity in Business

Gender equality is high on the corporate agenda, but behind the hashtags, the empowering t-shirts and glossy photographs, are we really creating change and tackling the barriers to gender equity and inclusive business? CARE, who will host the Women’s Equity and Inclusivity Zone at Business Fights Poverty Oxford, examine the importance of gender equity in business.
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What is a Refugee-Inclusive Business?

As part of the Business and Refugees Challenge, we have been exploring some of the barriers to mobilizing more business action to support refugees’ resilience in low to middle income countries. In the process, we have uncovered numerous examples of innovative business ideas, ambitious commitments, and genuine efforts to support the needs of refugees.
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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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Sweet Dreams Coming True For Syrian Refugees

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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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Why We Must Go Beyond Economics In The Discourse on Empowerment of Women

With increasingly more women’s economic empowerment initiatives being announced Jemimah Njuki asks if these kinds of initiatives are enough to transform the lives of women, their families and communities? Exploring why we must go beyond economics in the discourse on empowerment of women.
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Five Years after Rana Plaza, We Still Must Do More to Empower Women Workers in Bangladesh

Five years ago the Rana Plaza tragedy turned the eyes of the world to Bangladesh and sparked a conversation about compliance, building safety and the empowerent of workers. BSR’s HERproject share four things they believe that brands, suppliers, and the development community can do to further the empowerment of women workers.
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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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Mapping Lives with Refugees

How the Poverty Stoplight, a social innovation that activates the potential of people to assess and eliminate poverty in their families and communities through a self-evaluation tech tool, can help provide more stable and conducive environments for refugees.
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The Impact of a Microfinance on Preventing Intimate Partner Violence

Indashyikirwa, meaning ‘agents for change’, is a program that seeks to prevent intimate partner violence (IPV) across Rwanda, and is being implemented by CARE Rwanda, Rwanda Women’s Network (RWN) and Rwanda Men’s Resource Center (RWAMREC). Here Erin Stern shares some key learnings, processes and impacts from the programme.
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Virtual Exchange: Students Collaborate to Tackle Social Enterprise Challenges in the Middle East

The M²GATE Virtual exchange program pairs students from Michigan & the Middle East to take on social enterprise challenges. Together they collaborate to identify a social problem in the region and come up with an entrepreneurial solution.
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5 Ways Local Markets Help Refugees Rebuild Their Lives

In the westernmost corner of Uganda, something interesting is happening. This rural area of Uganda is challenging perceptions of how refugees can contribute to the local economy. West Nile in Uganda is home to hundreds of thousands of South Sudanese refugees, and together with their Ugandan host communities, they are beginning to drive growth.
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Successful Businesswoman Inspires Entrepreneurs in Tanzania

With support from the UNIDO trade sector development programme in Tanzania, Fatma Riyami, Managing Director of NatureRipe Kilimanjaro and East African Businesswoman of the Year, grew her business rapidly, achieving an annual turnover of half a million US dollars and has gone on to inspire other women entrepreneurs in Tanzania
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Women Working to Improve Sanitation and Hygiene

In the peri-urban areas of Maputo women are playing a key role in tackling the sanitation challenge. Poorly managed shared facilities have a major impact on women’s lives. As part of the WSUP programme in the city, women are playing a leading role in tackling the sanitation and hygiene challenge in their communities
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Women Sea Salt Producers in Indonesia Cooperate to Seize New Economic Opportunities

MCC’s investments in Indonesia are helping to empower women salt producers to increase the quantity and quality of salt production to boost incomes. The women are benefiting from labor-reducing and energy-efficient technologies as well as training programs aimed at improving salt-making skills, financial management, marketing and more.
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Virtual Reality Training in Southern Africa

New technology fills a gap that many governments and training institutions in Africa are struggling to bridge: the need for more skilled workers. Virtual reality training can offer opportunities in a number of fields, giving people access to knowledge which can be used to improve their lives.
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A Nigérien Entrepreneur Finds Her Niche in Camel Milk

MCC’s $437 million five-year compact to strengthen agriculture sector entered into force in January. The compact will focus on improving access to water for agriculture and livestock and expanding access to markets. In this blog post, we profile Wouro Habsatou Aboubacar, who runs a camel farm outside of Niamey.
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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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