A toolkit on how companies can help sustain a chosen NGO partner through the crisis, as well as protecting the investment already made in delivery of joint partnership work. With CEMEX, GSK, Primark, and the Corporate Responsibility Initiative, Harvard Kennedy School and UK Aid.
A toolkit drawing on the experience of a pan-African multi-stakeholder platform established to accelerate local action and share global best practice to counter the COVID-19 pandemic. With the Corporate Responsibility Initiative, Harvard Kennedy School, UK Aid and Brands on a Mission.
As Covid-19 wreaks havoc on lives and livelihoods around the world, fulfilling a social purpose has never been so important to businesses or their customers.
COVID-19 has increased the urgency for reliable, accessible and regular health information, and forced a shift to remote community engagement and greater focus on local-led responses. Our experience in Kenya shows that capacity building and mobilisation of local informal businesses through digital technology can empower high-risk communities with knowledge to combat COVID-19 and reduce financial barriers to essential health and hygiene products.
The COVID-19 crisis has upended the global economy. Airlines face dwindling passenger traffic; hospitals suffer exhausted workforces or mass layoffs; social venues are largely closed with many unlikely to re-open; and students and graduates experience fewer job prospects. Another deep recession is expected. Even as so many sectors struggle, there are winners.
COVID-19 continues to take a heavy toll on lives and economies across the world, changing the way we work and interact, while adding an additional layer of care responsibilities for families—especially for women.
Women’s specific needs and potential as leaders and agents of change must be considered for COVID-19 mitigation and recovery measures. This opinion piece is part of a series of articles by UNIDO’s Office for Gender Equality and Empowerment of Women.
As the COVID-19 crisis takes a massive economic toll, financial inclusion will be critical to helping the poor recover. Microfinance institutions should work in tandem with businesses to build community resilience and boost economic growth.
WWF is supporting the Business for Nature Coalition in convening a major global leadership event on 15 June to address the vital role of nature in building a resilient future for everyone. This unique virtual event will bring together CEOs from five large multinational companies with the heads of key UN institutions in exactly the type of conversation and collaboration we need to grow in the coming months.
Archipel&Co share a snapshot of how the COVID-19 crisis is impacting the daily lives of those living in low-income communities in the hopes that it might inform public, social and private sector understanding and response. It is not a full picture, but we hope it adds to the conversation. Most importantly, this is about ‘hearing’ from those whose voices are too often marginalised.
Carers Week and Global Intrapreneur Week – taking place in the same week: two weeks in one. For me though these “two weeks in one” are not just a diary clash as two of my passions – by strange coincidence – choose the same week to promote their cause. Rather, they are a stimulus to reflect on how intrapreneurism can help improve support for carers – and why, in the future, caring should inspire more social intrapreneurs.
Join us for an online written discussion with a panel of experts and members from our community to explore how we can help business rebuild better post COVID-19. This live panel takes place on Thursday 25th June, 3.00pm – 4.00pm GMT / 10am-11am EDT
While the focus has rightly been on responding to the most immediate impacts of COVID-19, we need to start thinking now about how to recover and “rebuild better”. Please share your advice on how we can best support this collective effort.
When the global economy is in crisis, the call for corporations to “lead with empathy” is no longer theoretical. Jane Nelson, founding director of the Corporate Responsibility Initiative at the Harvard Kennedy School, offers guidance.
If we are to truly recover from COVID-19, then it will not be about putting things back together to how they were – we need to build back better and address these deep systemic vulnerabilities that have been allowed to develop over the last decades. So what are the main challenges ahead and how will business navigate them?
COVID-19 requires rapid action, and it requires innovation. This unprecedented challenge demands that we overcome organisational and sector boundaries and join forces. A number of companies have managed to move extremely fast on innovating COVID-19 responses. Usually, these kinds of partnerships take months if not years to develop. Instead these are taking days and weeks.
In emerging markets, the COVID-19 crisis presents an even greater economic challenge than in the United States. The American economy was the strongest in the world before the crisis. Even now, under widespread stay-at-home orders, US unemployment has risen to only 20%, whereas most emerging market countries started the year with formal unemployment rates well above 20%.
Join us for an online written discussion with a panel of experts to explore how we can ensure MSMEs thrive post COVID-19. Taking place on Thursday, Thursday 4 June, 3pm BST/ 10am EDT
Dr Myriam Sidibe is the woman behind the multi award winning and UN recognized Global Handwashing Day. She has focused her professional life’s work on handwashing, leading Unilever’s Lifebuoy programme and is a senior Fellow at the Mossavar Rahmani Center for Business and Government at Harvard Kennedy School. During our podcast Myriam shares how she has set up the national business response coalition in Kenya
