Governance and Transparency

Ensuring Governance and Transparency in Aid

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The Silent Voices of the Global South: How USAID’s Funding Freeze Exposes the Need for Change

As a Ugandan beneficiary of aid, Keith Kibirango highlights how USAID’s funding freeze exposes the flaws in traditional aid models, leaving communities vulnerable and disillusioned. This crisis calls for new, sustainable partnerships that prioritize direct impact and local leadership. The Global South must take charge of its development and funding future.
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Together for 2025

Business as a Force for Good: Key Priorities and Actions for 2025

In January 2025, over 200 members of the Business Fights Poverty community came together for a virtual Community Forum, bringing a wealth of experience and fresh perspectives to explore some of the most pressing social and environmental challenges of our time. Over the course of the event, participants shared their insights, successes, and cautions, all framed by one central ambition: to identify the critical priorities, actions, and collaborations necessary to drive maximum social impact in the year ahead.
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Katarina and Justin Insights from Baku Climate COP24

Katarina and Justin, Share their Insights from Baku and the Climate COP29

In this special episode, we bring you exclusive insights straight from COP29 in Baku, Azerbaijan, with long-time Business Fights Poverty community members, Justin Perrettson and Katarina Kahlmann. As global leaders and changemakers convene to tackle the pressing challenges of climate change, Justin and Katarina share their experiences, expertise, and perspectives from inside the conference.
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Amanda Smith

Business, Social Impact and Inclusivity, with Amanda Smith of Diageo

Social Impact Pioneer Amanda Smith, Diageo explores how to turn ambitious corporate commitments on social impact and inclusivity to reality.
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Driving ESG Innovation in the New Regulatory Context with Meta

Companies today face the challenge of maintaining ambitious social and environmental innovation while navigating an increasingly complex regulatory landscape. During a hybrid workshop hosted
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Driving ESG Innovation in the New Regulatory Context

Watch this Hybrid Workshop with Meta on how companies can remain ambitious in delivering social and environmental innovation while ensuring compliance with the evolving regulatory landscape.
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Investors and Women's empowerment

Enhancing Women’s Empowerment Strategies: The Investor’s View

Enhancing women’s empowerment strategies faces resistance from power dynamics and short-term profit concerns. However, long-term and well-diversified investors recognize the sustainable benefits of diversity, equity, and inclusion, influencing firms to prioritize gender equality and reaping positive financial outcomes. This article explores the critical role investors play in promoting women’s empowerment in business.
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SMEs and UN Sustainable Development Goals

How SMEs Can Gain a Competitive Edge by Embracing UN SDGs

Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) can achieve a competitive edge by adopting the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Embracing sustainability offers numerous benefits, and the UN Global Compact Network UK’s SDG Playbook provides practical steps to help SMEs successfully integrate these goals into their business models.
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Together for 2024

The landscape of global development is evolving, with new challenges and opportunities emerging on the horizon. As we navigate these complexities, the power of collaboration, innovation and impactful action becomes increasingly apparent. This paper synthesises the insights from a vibrant Online Written Discussion, “Together for 2024”.
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Leadership and Governance on Sustainability

Navigating Leadership and Governance on Sustainability

Explore crucial insights in the Annual ESG Preparedness Report, highlighting leadership’s role in integrating Environmental, Social, Governance (ESG) into business. This report emphasises women’s impact on sustainability governance and calls for actionable leadership strategies in a world increasingly aware of its ecological footprint.
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Corruption and climate vulnerability – A devastating relationship

The negative impact of corruption on climate action is a link we can no longer ignore. Dana Schrann explains how it is imperative to keep a close eye on whether states are over-exaggerating actual efforts towards climate action, while continuing with business as usual.
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Investing in poverty reduction and global growth with Alicia Phillips Mandaville

How do you effectively spend billions of dollars of taxpayer’s money to help fight global poverty? And how do you invest for climate resilience and account for the unknown such as the risks of pandemics? We hear from Alicia Phillips Mandaville who is the Vice President of the Department of Policy and Evaluation at The Millennium Challenge Corporation (the MCC)
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Six Actions Businesses Can Take To Reduce Negative Impacts of Purchasing Practices on Human Rights

As Human Rights Due Diligence becomes increasingly important for businesses, Oxfam’s Private Sector Human Rights Advisor, Monica Romis looks at how purchasing practices have direct implications on the human rights of workers, sharing some of Oxfam’s research and highlighting concrete steps business can take for a more equitable sharing of rights and responsibilities through the supply chain.
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Corruption, Covid-19 and Inequality: the vital role of companies in preventing this deadly mixture

With over 1.4 million deaths, COVID-19 has disrupted health systems all over the world and highlighted profound inequality. Corruption during the pandemic has widened the gap between the haves and have-nots. Alongside policy makers, there is much that businesses can do to tackle corruption in the response to COVID-19 and contribute to more equal societies.
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Swiss to vote on holding multinationals responsible for supply chains

On 29 November, Switzerland will hold a nationwide referendum on the Responsible Business Initiative. A vote in favour of the initiative will make companies headquartered in Switzerland legally responsible for what happens in their supply chains.
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Integrated Corporate Governance: Six Leadership Priorities For Boards Beyond The Crisis

The COVID-19 crisis is accelerating a shift toward a more integrated approach to corporate governance that has been gathering force for some time
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The Legislative Framework We Need to Protect Workers Across Supply Chains

To ensure a resilient world economy that will sustain a Covid-19 recovery conducive to social progress, governments must now take decisive legislative action, according to a new ITUC report.
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Would Workers on Boards Make Corporations More COVID-19 Resilient?

COVID-19 has become the window frame through which we now view so much of our lives. Certainly, high on that list is our work and workplace. For many who are fortunate to be employed and work from home, there have been annoyances and stresses in managing our home life and work life at the same time. But for a whole host of “essential workers” that workplace can be a matter of life or death, quite literally.
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Rachel Cooper

The COVID-19 global pandemic leaves people and systems vulnerable to bribery and corruption. Rachel Cooper, Director of Transparency International’s Health Initiative is a leading expert in understanding the causes and cures of ethically dubious bad practice.
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Three Priorities for Business on the Coronavirus

Business Fights Poverty and Business Partnerships for Sustainable Development are convening a process to rapidly co-create and share insights and best-practice, replicable solutions across markets. In thinking through what the priorities should be for business, there are three that stand out.
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