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Ensuring Governance and Transparency in Aid

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.

Governance and Transparency

January 30, 2019

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.

Governance and Transparency

January 25, 2019

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.

Governance and Transparency, Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises

December 5, 2018

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.

Governance and Transparency, Human Rights

November 16, 2018

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.

Governance and Transparency, Innovative Business Models

September 20, 2018

Partnerships Cultivate Change in the Niger Delta

Mamadou Beye, Government and Public Affairs General Manager at Chevron discusses Chevron’s Global Memorandum of Understanding (GMoU) partnership approach in the Niger Delta, with insights on how the GMoU community impact model has empowered conflict resolution and encouraged locally-developed economic initiatives

Governance and Transparency, Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises, Partnerships

September 3, 2018

How Can We Engage SMEs Exporting to Frontier Markets With the Case for Doing Business With Integrity?

Introducing our new Challenge on doing business with integrity, with support from the UK’s Department for International Development. This Challenge aims to identify the best way to articulate and communicate the benefits of doing business with integrity to SMEs exporting to frontier markets, with a focus on eradicating bribery and corruption.

Governance and Transparency

June 3, 2018

Communities First: Top Human Rights Priorities for Extractives Companies

The extractives industry has had a long and complicated relationship with human rights. With the announcement of the U.S. withdrawal from the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative, these issues are once again making headlines around the globe. BSR highlights the most salient human rights challenges for the extractives industry today.

Governance and Transparency, Human Rights

November 29, 2017

System Leadership in Practice: Technoserve’s East Africa Coffee Initiative

Read enough blogs, and you might think the formula for increasing smallholder farmers’ incomes is well-known: training + access to (inputs x finance x markets). Simple, right?