Human Rights and Governance Archives

Uncovering Vulnerability Inspires Authentic Leadership

Executive coaching is typically a privilege offered only to the most valued business professionals. After 20 years of working her way into the C-suite, Jane Finette’s employer offered her that opportunity. The experience fundamentally changed the way Finette saw the world and the role she would play as a leader.

Fostering Leadership, Gender

February 7, 2021

Women in industry – why we need more gender-sensitive statistics

COVID-19 is highlighting how a lack of gender-sensitive statistics threatens women’s health. But a shortage of good, reliable data on women is also holding back progress towards inclusive and sustainable industrial development (ISID), and hampering preparations for the changing employment landscape of the post-COVID economy.

Gender

January 26, 2021

Enabling greater inclusion of PWD’s amid the pandemic

Covid-19 has disrupted lives all across the world, limiting our daily routines and mundane activities. For people living with disabilities (PWDs), the pandemic has multiplied their challenges and raised their vulnerability to existing conditions.

Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, Health

January 26, 2021

Primary health workforce learning in an era of COVID-19: is digital delivery here to stay?

COVID-19 has forced us all to shift our ways of working, to rapidly innovate and adjust; and we have seen the extent to which this applies to primary healthcare workers. Not only the way in which they deliver care but also how these frontline workers are themselves supported and able to learn.

Health, Technology

January 25, 2021

2020 Hindsight to 2021 Foresight: Driving the Inclusive Digitization of MSMEs

In 2020, the modern economy became synonymous with the digital economy, and the Mastercard Center for Inclusive Growth re-doubled efforts to help MSMEs survive and thrive. Here they share four guiding principles that they will be incorporating into their work in 2021 to help bring about an inclusive and sustainable digital economy that works for everyone, everywhere.

Finance and Investment, Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises, Technology

January 13, 2021

Business Mentorship for LGBTQ Refugees

LGBTQ refugees and asylum seekers around the world are fleeing their home countries due to life-threatening persecution and violence. To help LGBTQ refugees integrate into their new communities and prepare for the job market, global businesses collectively committed to provide mentorship opportunities to approximately 1,250 LGBTQ refugees in North America over the next three years.

Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, LGBTQI+, Refugees and Migration

January 11, 2021

Diversifying livelihoods for Maasai people: The value of business

Small-scale enterprises are key in helping Maasai communities rise out of poverty. One example of these is beekeeping which brings not only financial benefits but also greater independence and influence for women in a traditionally patriarchal society. With Covid-19 having decimated tourism incomes in southern Kenya and northern Tanzania, diversified livelihoods have never been more important.

Agriculture, Gender

January 11, 2021

Clearing the Air in Darfur

In Darfur, shared knowledge and improved technology is making cooking at home safer and cheaper. Practical Action teamed up with the Women’s Development Association to educate communities and introduce new Liquid Petroleum Gas (LPG) stoves in El Fasher. Reducing carbon emissions and giving thousands of families clean homes, clean lungs and more money to spend on essentials.

Climate & Environment, Climate Justice, Gender, Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises

January 7, 2021

Rudrani Oza

Meet Rudrani Oza. She is senior manager of farm innovations for CottonConnect. Based in India, Rudrani is a gender expert, with over 16 years of experience in the areas of gender, HIV/AIDS, reproductive health, water & sanitation, and children’s rights.

Agriculture, Gender

December 18, 2020

Corruption, Covid-19 and Inequality: the vital role of companies in preventing this deadly mixture

With over 1.4 million deaths, COVID-19 has disrupted health systems all over the world and highlighted profound inequality. Corruption during the pandemic has widened the gap between the haves and have-nots. Alongside policy makers, there is much that businesses can do to tackle corruption in the response to COVID-19 and contribute to more equal societies.

Governance and Transparency, Health

December 16, 2020

I Am Purple: Youth-Focused Gender Empowerment

Every1Mobile shares lessons from ‘I Am Purple’, a youth focused Gender empowerment programme using digital platforms to change harmful social norms around gender equality among young men and women in Nigeria.

Gender, Technology

December 11, 2020

Early Intervention Results in Greater Gains for Girls

If leaders are made, and not always born, then why not begin nurturing women leaders as soon as possible? Envision Lead Grow program intercepts girls at 10 years old. Over the course of eight years, the program nurtures their entrepreneurial skills as they become “girl bosses.”

Gender, Youth

December 9, 2020

Business Fights Poverty Fortnightly Round Up

Over the last fortnight we have focused on gender and equality. Catch up on the highlights of our Gender Summit that took place on 3rd December, and find out what businesses are doing to support women through gender-lens investing, tackling gender-based violence, and women’s economic empowerment.

Gender

December 9, 2020

Gender-Based Violence and Tourism

Violence against women, in all its forms, is about the abuse of power as an expression of entitlement that underpins patriarchy. A new book Tourism and Gender-based Violence: Challenging Inequalities draws attention to the ways in which tourism may perpetuate gender inequality in its most exaggerated form.

Gender, Gender-Based Violence

December 9, 2020

SEMINAR VIDEO: WHY SHOULD COMPANIES HAVE PROGRAMMES TO DEVELOP WOMEN LEADERS?

Vasanthi Srinivasan is Professor of Organizational Behavior & Human Resources Management, and Chair of Digital Learning at the Indian Institute of Management Bangalore, talks to us about why companies should have programmes to develop women leaders.

Education, Fostering Leadership, Gender

December 9, 2020

SEMINAR VIDEO: WHY IS THE PANDEMIC DISPROPORTIONATELY AFFECTING WOMEN ENTREPRENEURS?

Ute Stephan, Professor of Entrepreneurship at King’s Business School, King’s College London, talks to us about the disproportionate impact of the pandemic on women entrepreneurs.

Gender, Health, Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises

December 9, 2020

Jessica Espinoza Trujano

Whether you have been working on the topic of gender investing deeply for years or you are new to the idea. Whether you are an investor, entrepreneur, development finance institution or corporate – take a listen to Jessica Espinoza Trujano.