Human Rights and Governance

Advancing Human Rights and Governance

Systems Theory Through a Gender Lens

The potential to incorporate a systems approach into a fund structure represents new thinking on how to evaluate opportunities, support businesses, increase impact, measure impact, and shape entire markets to reduce the gender gap.
icon-content-article-grey

How does gender equity drive resilience for women and for business?

Gender equity is a driver of resilience, both for women and also for the businesses that work with them across their value chains. In
icon-content-video-grey
What can we learn from women leaders in the fights for climate justice

What can we learn from women leaders in the fight for climate justice? – full video

This session explored the central theme of International Women’s Day – the important role that women leaders are playing in driving a more sustainable
icon-content-video-grey

How can we drive gender equity through responsible sourcing?

Hosted with UN Foundation Responsible Sourcing holds the promise to improve the lives of millions of women workers globally. Corporate leaders have offered researchers
icon-content-video-grey

Gender Summit 2022

On March 8th, sessions included how gender equity can drive resilience for women and for business; what we can learn from women leaders in
event-grey

Rethinking Fundraising

In January, UNICEF Italy launched BZR, a new fundraising platform developed as part of Next Generation, a laboratory for new disruptive solutions of partnerships and fundraising. BZR is a virtual marketplace where fashion companies and influencers sell their unused products, and all profits go directly to fund UNICEF programmes in Afghanistan. 
icon-content-article-grey

Boda Boda, Economic Development and the Future of Work

The BodaBoda Safety Association of Kenya (B.A.K) currently has 1.4 million registered members. 1.2 million of these are between the ages of 18-35. As an association, our entire membership base is made up of small business owners. We are developing a framework to effectively upskill and reskill for the future of work.
icon-content-article-grey

How can businesses help prevent and tackle GBV in the workplace?

Hosted with Avon When incidents of Gender-Based Violence (GBV) spiked during the pandemic, many businesses stepped up. Yet organisations still have a role to
icon-content-video-grey

How can business prevent and tackle GBV in their workplaces and supply chains?

Businesses are stepping up to tackle GBV. This session will bring together business and expert voices to explore recent examples, lessons and challenges. In
icon-content-video-grey

Regenerative agriculture and women farmers

Engage with our featured content to discover the value of regenerative agriculture, and how companies, NGOs and farmers are utilising this approach to create profit, gender-inclusivity and climate resilience.
icon-content-article-grey

Snigdha Ali and Maria May

Snigdha Ali and Maria May explain why being unbanked is a serious inequality issue and how digital financing can create economic empowerment, particularly for women in emerging markets.
icon-content-podcast-grey

Nudges & Bridges: making better decisions & finding common ground

In this first episode of Nudges & Bridges: Making Better Decisions & Finding Common Ground, 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? Read on to learn more.
icon-content-article-grey

A transformative journey: Kasha’s mission to provide equal health access to all women

Leading East African FemTech company, Kasha, share nine key lessons learnt from scaling their business with support from TRANSFORM. TRANSFORM is a joint initiative between Unilever, the UK’s Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO) and EY that provides grant funding and business consultancy to impact enterprises in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia.
icon-content-article-grey

What If we created our own celebration days?

François Taddei, from his upcoming book Game-Changing: Together Solving the Problems of the 21st Century, writes about the importance of celebration to foster collaboration and co-creation among engaged actors, including the business community, to transform education for the future of the planet.
icon-content-article-grey

How businesses and young people can collaborate to be a force for development

Clean water and sanitation for all is a critical Sustainable Development Goal which has only become more significant in the global pandemic. In rural Tanzania the spread of water-borne diseases affects everyday lives, so Raleigh International young people teamed up with Reckitt employees, and found an impactful way to combat this problem.
icon-content-article-grey

Seeking entrepreneurs and SMEs that are innovating in the care economy

Business Fights Poverty is excited to be part of a new programme to transform the care economy and is seeking SMEs and entrepreneurs across our network to be matched with investors. Sign up by 10th December. Read on for more information!
icon-content-article-grey

Bridging the gender digital divide and improving girls’ self-esteem – An opportunity to partner with UNICEF

Over the past 3 years UNICEF and Dove have partnered to adapt and integrate Dove’s evidence-based self-esteem and body confidence curriculum (DSEP) within UNICEF’s ongoing collaboration with ministries of education and the private sector across 3 countries. Read on to learn more.
icon-content-article-grey

What can a dog park teach us about bridging great societal divides?

In this video, actually filmed in a dog park, Tim shows how dogs can turn other dogs – strangers and members of other packs – into friends. Then making the dog park into a metaphor, he shows how we humans can go beyond our own identities and packs to find common ground with those we may disagree with on social and political grounds.
icon-content-article-grey

A Great Reset On Disability

Poor treatement and downright discrimination against disabled people in the workplace are things we don’t ever want to go back to. David Grayson argues that businesses and society need a “reset” on disability, and hopes to see the sustainability-related business led networks becoming much more proactive in making the links between disability and the achievement of the SDGs.
icon-content-article-grey

The GSMA Innovation Fund for Climate Resilience and Adaptation

The GSMA, the UK Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) and the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida) have announced the launch of the GSMA Innovation Fund for Climate Resilience and Adaptation. The objective of this new Fund is to help accelerate the testing, adoption and scalability of digital innovations that enable the world’s most vulnerable populations to adapt to, anticipate and absorb the negative impacts of climate change.
icon-content-article-grey

What do we mean by "Human Rights and Governance"?

Explore initiatives that advance human rights and promote effective governance, driving global change, enforcing equity and alleviating poverty.

Sub-topics within this category