Human Rights and Governance

Advancing Human Rights and Governance

Disability Access with Ceri Davies

How can business better support people with disabilities and access issues? There are an estimated 1 billion people globally experiencing some form of disability. Though accessibility issues are inherently personal, with so many people face extra challenges to navigate our world – how can we all better support each other
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Addressing the Future of Work for Young Africans in a Post-Covid World

This article aims to highlight the changing nature of work for young Africans that has been severely impacted by the Covid-19 pandemic. This explores the state of youth unemployment on the continent and the potential for digitalisation to impact the future of work, calling on the business community and leaders to invest in skills development of youth, promoting entrepreneurial mindsets.
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Naga sticky rice being harvested by a small farmers group in Nagaland, India

Network of Small-Scale farmers in India Tackle Climate Change

This article shares the story of a network of small-scale farmers in India tackling climate change. It forms part of ANDE’s Stories of Climate Resilience: Small Businesses, Big Impact campaign, that showcases adaptation solutions to climate change driven by entrepreneurs.
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Effective Support for Women Entrepreneurs Goes Beyond Skills Training

When women’s businesses succeed, the benefits to their families and communities are substantial. However, obstacles like those faced by Bernadette are pervasive for women entrepreneurs, often preventing them from reaching their full economic and personal potential. Many women entrepreneurs lack access to the training and resources they need to help them develop their business skills.
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Rainforest Alliance Youth

If We Want to Meet the SDGs, We Need to Ditch Empty Rhetoric and Invest in Young People

María Fernanda Ghiso, Youth Inclusion expert at the Rainforest Alliance, marked International Youth Day (last month) by reminding organisations that they need to enable today’s youth to deliver tangible and sustainable change.
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On The Difference Between Us and Them as Opposed to Us vs Them

The insights in the Nudges and Bridges series aim to help everyone, including business people, understand how they can contribute to peace. The words “us” and “them” typically are used to characterize problematic opposition. This video looks at these issues and also offers ways in which creating an “us” can be a good thing.  Maybe it is terms of finding a common enemy – that seems very true these days – but it also looks at more constructive possibilities of “us and them” while warning of the very real dangers of “us vs them.” 
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Real-time information for famers enables climate change adaption

Interview with Moses Kimani, Founder and CEO at Lentera Ltd, a farming technology company that provides farmers with market linkage opportunities, digital extension services and quality inputs. Read on to learn how how real-time information for famers enables climate adaption.
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Bridge through the forest

The Importance of Nudges & Bridges in an Increasingly Conflicted World

This iteration is an interview conducted by the CIBER Institute at the Kelley School of Business with Tim Fort that frames the notion of Nudges & Bridges, and the cultural artifacts that comprise them, in the context of the conflicted world in which we live in 2022.  The interviewer poses both international and domestic questions of Professor Fort to elucidate the ways in which cultural artifacts both help us to make better decisions, especially collaborative ones, as well to act as bridges for people to find common ground with those they disagree.
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How can young people from low-income countries get the best from financial services?

With goals that range from “[being] financially stable”, to “being an established business tycoon”, young people from low-income communities have big ambitions. However, due to an interwoven mix of financial barriers, they currently lack the information, infrastructure, and knowledge to pursue such ambitions. How can organisations put young people from low-income communities at the heart of financial inclusion decision-making, in order to help them achieve their ambitions?
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Progress in closing the gender gap in mobile internet use has stalled

More than 3.2 billion people in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) now access the internet on a mobile phone. Mobile is the primary way men and women access the internet in LMICs, accounting for 85% of broadband connections in 2021.[1] Despite the critical role of mobile in providing connectivity, progress in closing the gender gap in mobile internet use has stalled.
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Advancing Gender Equality through Inclusive Distribution Networks

A new learning brief from IFC introduces how the fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG) sector, including manufacturers, e-supply chain actors, investors, and development organizations, can advance gender equality within the distribution activities. The brief provides a market overview and presents an emerging business case, the challenges facing women distributors and retailers, and recommendations.
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Nudges & Bridges: The Sporting Life

In this episode of Nudges an Bridges, Eveleigh Professor of Business Ethics, Kelley School of Business at Indiana University, suggests that each of us could find common ground with those we may disagree with on social and political issues. How do we do that? Timothy relates to famous incidents of bonds in sportsmanship.
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Social inequality has become an investor priority

When the European Union embraced the concept of double materiality in the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive, mandating that investors consider risks corporations externalize onto people, the business and human rights movement notched a significant win. Now the notion of double materiality is also taking shape in a different guise beyond Europe: in rising investor concerns around systemic risks, including inequality.
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Ben Jeffreys, ATEC, clean and safe cooking

Ben Jeffreys is a social impact pioneer – he is dedicating his life to bring clean cooking to everyone around the world. Ben believes that this is one of, if not the world’s biggest social and environmental challenge … and he has the statistics to back it up.
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Six ways social entrepreneurs can step up to help refugees

Half of refugees in the UK struggle to get employed. What can those of us working in the social impact space do to help them find meaningful work? In the recent WISE Ways to Lead webinar, hosted by Pioneers Post in partnership with NatWest, we heard from social enterprises working with refugees to answer just that. Read on for highlights, and watch the full discussion video.
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Futuremakers Research 2022

On behalf of Futuremakers by Standard Chartered, Business Fights Poverty in partnership with Murray Edwards College, University of Cambridge, conducted a survey of over 1,200 young people about financial inclusion. The survey responses and stakeholder interviews point to three main issues: i. Young people need to be put at the heart of designing products and services that are fit for them; ii. Young people require financial information and infrastructures to make informed financial decisions; iii. A relationship of trust needs to be built as part of the provision of financial services and products.
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Climate Justice Online Forum Discussions

A summary of a series of online forum discussions about how business can put people at the heart of their climate actions. The series also covered the role of education and skills in the just transition and how thinking about diversity and inclusion can help spread the burdens and benefits of climate action.
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Poverty Tsunami Briefing Paper

COVID, conflict and climate change are among a confluence of challenges driving a tsunami of poverty that is already crashing into the lives of vulnerable people and communities around the world. This briefing explores these trends and the role businesses can and should play.
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Futuremakers Forum 2022

Virtual Summit, 6-7 July 2022. Through thought-leading research, employee volunteering and a two-day global Futuremakers Forum, we deepened our understanding of how to unleash
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5,000 miles of connection – why the war in Ukraine is causing starvation in the Horn of Africa

The last two years have reminded us how connected the world is and how our lives and livelihoods depend on one another. Disruptions in supply chains during the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic and now the war in Ukraine continues to demonstrate that what happens in one part of the world can have severe consequences in another. It is 5,000 miles between Ukraine and the Horn of Africa and yet war in Eastern Europe threatens an unprecedented famine in the Horn of Africa
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