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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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?