Governance and Transparency

Ensuring Governance and Transparency in Aid

Doing Nothing is Not an Option

Impact is a word we hear all the time in sustainability circles. Often when we talk about impacts, we’re talking about reducing the negative ones. Causing less damage. But that’s not nearly enough, says Arjen Boekhold of Game Changer Unltd. and known from Tony’s Chocolonely.
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Claims, Credibility and Landscape Approaches

As the rates of climate change, deforestation and biodiversity loss continue to increase, the urgency to address these sustainability challenges grows. In recent years, landscape and jurisdictional approaches have become an increasingly popular response to these challenges. Patrick Mallet, Innovations Director at ISEAL, and Akiva Fishman, Senior Program Officer at World Wildlife Fund, discuss what credible assurance at a landscape level looks like. ​
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CEO Agenda 2019: An Ambitious Vision Lacking Commitment or Detail

The CEO Agenda 2019 was launched at DAVOS by a number of leading fashion brands, with support from Global Fashion Agenda. CARE share where they see important gaps in this agenda and limitations to what it can achieve in its current form.
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What She Makes: The True Price of Fashion

The Australian fashion industry was worth almost $23.5 billion in 2018 — a staggering amount. But a system of entrenched exploitation and the widespread payment of poverty wages is denying the workers making our clothes the opportunity for decent lives.
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A Transparent Cuppa – Mapping Our Tea and Coffee Supply Chains

As we enter the second week of Fairtrade Fortnight, it’s a time to celebrate our Fairtrade products and reflect on our hard work building strong relationships with our producers and working on programmes such as empowering women in the supply chain.​
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Moving Towards Gender Equality: A New Index Looks at Legal Reforms to Help Women’s Economic Inclusion

Do you think the world is becoming more equal for women at work? The recently published Women, Business and the Law 2019: A Decade of Reform gives us some insight. While achieving gender equality requires a broad range of efforts over time, the study focuses on the law as an important first step to providing an objective measure of how specific regulations affect women’s incentives to participate in economic activity.
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Business Integrity Initiative: Changing the Way We Do Business in Africa?

The Ethics 1st program of the US Centre for International Private Enterprise (CIPE) and the Business Integrity Initiative of the UK Government seek to put businesses from the US and the UK in touch with companies in Africa (and elsewhere) that are certified as anti-bribery and anti-corruption compliant. 230,000+ UK SMEs need clean business partners and intermediaries. Is this a business opportunity for your country?
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Large Companies Have a Key Role in Strengthening Small Supplier Integrity

This year, I’ve been proud to participate as an adviser in a project commissioned by the U.K. Government’s Business Integrity Hub, which has been established to provide practical support for companies to help prevent bribery and corruption when doing business overseas.
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Doing Business with Integrity is an Increasingly Important Driver of Commercial Success

UK Government launches new Business Integrity Hu​b to support SMEs operating in frontier markets
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Building Resilient Businesses through the Ministry of Justice’s Six Principles of Bribery Prevention

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Doing Business with Integrity: An Important Driver of Commercial Success

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Doing Business with Integrity Makes for Better Business

UK Government launches new Business Integrity Hub to support SMEs operating in frontier markets
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Doing Business with Integrity Case Study: Forensic Pathways

The UK government encourages businesses operating in emerging markets to prepare for bribery and corruption risks, as well as potential human rights abuses. The Department for International Development has launched the Business Integrity Hub to help businesses do this. Forensic Pathways talks about the benefits of operating a business with integrity in new markets.
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Doing Business with Integrity Case Study: MLM Brasil

The UK government encourages businesses operating in emerging markets to prepare for bribery and corruption risks, as well as potential human rights abuses. The Department for International Development has launched the Business Integrity Hub to help businesses do this. MLM Group talks about the benefits of operating a business with integrity in new markets.
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Doing Business with Integrity Case Study: Dints International

The UK government encourages businesses operating in emerging markets to prepare for bribery and corruption risks, as well as potential human rights abuses. The Department for International Development has launched the Business Integrity Hub to help businesses do this. Dints International talks about the benefits of operating a business with integrity in new markets.
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Doing Business with Integrity is Good for Business and Society​

Over the last six months Business Fights Poverty has been working with the UK Government’s Business Integrity Initiative, supported by DFID, FCO and DIT, which aims to help SMEs to anticipate and avoid bribery, corruption and human rights risks when doing business in frontier markets.
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Are B Corps an Elite Charade for Changing the World?

Responding to Anand Giridharadas, who recently called elites to account for giving so much lip service to “changing the world,” while mostly upholding an unacceptable status quo, Co-Founder and Managing Partner of B Lab, Jay Coen Gilbert welcomes criticism of B Corps.
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Are you a Small Business Working in Frontier Markets? An Opportunity to Showcase your Approach and Influence How You Get Support

We invite you to share your experiences of barriers and drivers of doing business in frontier markets and to help shape how small and medium-sized enterprises are better supported by the UK Government and other organisations in doing their international business.
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Winners of Stop Slavery Award at International Human Rights Forum announced

Unilever and Standard Chartered PLC, both Business Fights Poverty Business Leaders Group members, have received awards at the Thomson Reuters Foundation’s annual human rights forum, Trust Conference.
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Laura Kelly

In our latest leader spotlight interview we hear first hand from the inside of the UK’s Department for International Development (DFID). Katie Hyson, Business Fights Poverty’s Director of Thought Leadership, catches up with Laura Kelly, former Team Leader for DFID’s Business Engagement Hub.
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