Sustainable Development to Combat Poverty

From Produce to Profits: How Mobile Technology Is Strengthening the Livelihoods of Spinach Growers

Technoserve share their case study on innovative models for creating a profitable agribusiness that builds wealth in small farming communities of East Africa. Learn more about Kenyan agribusiness Akili Group, a firm using information and communication technology to improve upon the traditional out-grower models.

Agriculture, Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises

July 25, 2018

Daniella Foster

The tourism industry already accounts for 10.4% GDP and employs 313 million people; find out why Hilton is on a social and environmental mission to ensure its future. Katie Hyson, Director of Thought Leadership at Business Fights Poverty interviews Daniella Foster, Senior Director of Global Corporate Responsibility at Hilton Hotels and Resorts

Climate & Environment, Climate Justice, Global Goals

July 16, 2018

Dominic White

Marking the launch of Measuring Up, the UK Stakeholders for Sustainable Development’s (UKSSD) first stock take of progress across the UK against all the 169 targets identified in the SDGs, Business Fights Poverty’s Katie Hyson caught up with Dominic White, co-founder and co-chair of UK-SSD, as well as Head of International Development Policy at WWF-UK.

Climate & Environment, Climate Justice, Global Goals

July 3, 2018

Building Transformational Partnerships

A briefing paper on lessons for building effective business-NGO partnerships, based on the experience of the Cargill-CARE partnership. With Cargill and CARE USA.

Agriculture, Partnerships

July 1, 2018

The Road of Change: Circular Economy in the Automotive Industry

Kaiho Sangyo, a Japanese automobile recycling company, joined Business Call to Action in December 2017 with a pledge to establish an eco-friendly auto recycling value chain in Brazil. As part of this commitment, it will develop the skills of 15,000 recycling engineers and expand 20 existing recycling businesses, including local garages and repair shops.

Climate & Environment, Climate Justice, Innovative Business Models

June 26, 2018

Eyes in the Sky: How Drones and Satellites Can Transform African Agriculture

What if every farmer knew exactly what each of her plants needed—the amount of water, the quantity and formula of fertilizer, the type of pesticide—at any given moment? This is the promise of precision agriculture, in which micro-level data is gathered by drones or satellites and used to enhance decision-making on the farm.

Agriculture

June 19, 2018

Child Labour in Cocoa: Why It’s So Hard to Combat and What We’re Doing About It

Today, on the UN’s World Day Against Child Labour, Olam take the opportunity to share some of the challenges faced in combating child labour in cocoa and where they, as the world’s leading exporter of cocoa from Africa, are focusing their efforts to eradicate child labour in their supply chain.

Agriculture

June 12, 2018

Boosting On-Site Sanitation in Urban Kenya and Nigeria: Four Consumer Realities

To be able to adequately meet the challenge of sanitation, it is critical for the design and implementation of on-site sanitation systems to understand and account for consumer preferences. Dalberg’s research within poor urban communities points to four lived realities that on-site sanitation providers need to consider before design and rolling out their products globally

Water and Sanitation

June 3, 2018

Investing In The Energy Transition

The Private Financing Advisory Network (PFAN) bridges the gap between investors and entrepreneurs. It identifies promising clean energy projects at an early stage and provides no-cost coaching and investment facilitation. When in place, these measures make it easier for investors to understand a project’s potential, increasing the odds that they will make an investment.

Climate & Environment, Climate Justice, Energy, Finance and Investment, Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises

May 29, 2018

Bringing Business Back Home: Biomass Energy of Sri Lanka

Biomass Supplies, a Sri Lankan subsidiary of Biomass Group – the visionary renewable energy company – is developing Sri Lanka’s abundant sustainable energy resources through innovative partnerships with the country’s smallholder farmers.

Agriculture, Innovative Business Models, Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises

May 18, 2018

Meet the Longlist: Unilever Global Development Award, Supported by Business Fights Poverty

Business in the Community announce the longlist of companies selected for the The Unilever Global Development Award, supported by Business Fights Poverty. The award recognises businesses that demonstrate positive impact against one or more of the United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

Agriculture, Energy, Global Goals, Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises, Social Enterprises, Technology, Water and Sanitation

May 7, 2018

From Gender Lens to Inclusive Impact Investment

By defining and disaggregating the ways investments empower women, beyond the very rudimentary criteria of solely investing in women, gender lens investing is helping to create frameworks and tools for the industry as a whole.

Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, Finance and Investment, Gender, Innovative Business Models, Water and Sanitation

May 1, 2018

Helping Refugees Move From Crisis To Resilience and Self-Reliance

Introducing our new Challenge on Business and Refugees with support from Pearson and in partnership with UNHCR, Mercy Corps, Business Call to Action, Innovest Advisory and Thomson Reuters Foundation. The Challenge aims to strengthen the foundation for effective partnerships to improve refugees’ wellbeing and educational and livelihood opportunities so refugees can thrive, not just survive.

Climate & Environment, Conflict and Peace, Education, Finance and Investment, Food and Nutrition, Gender, Health, Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises, Partnerships, Refugees and Migration, Social Enterprises

April 20, 2018

Mapping Lives with Refugees

How the Poverty Stoplight, a social innovation that activates the potential of people to assess and eliminate poverty in their families and communities through a self-evaluation tech tool, can help provide more stable and conducive environments for refugees.

Refugees and Migration, Technology, Water and Sanitation

April 20, 2018

Charting a Course for Robust Private Sector Engagement

MCC share the highlights from their recent Advisory Council meeting in Washington, D.C. The gathering brought together Council members with deep subject area expertise, representing a variety of U.S. industries, to provide specific feedback on agency plans, as well as advice on how MCC can improve its engagement with the business community.

Agriculture, Finance and Investment, Technology, Water and Sanitation

April 20, 2018

Making Payment Acceptance a Driver for Financial Inclusion

Mastercard believe that merchant acceptance is key to financial inclusion. Here they discuss advancing payment acceptance at the base of the pyramid and how new product solutions, business models and partnerships can advance both electronic payments and financial inclusion.

Finance and Investment, Innovative Business Models, Technology, Water and Sanitation

April 18, 2018

Sustainability Standards Embrace GIS Technology

ISEAL Alliance, who represent the global movement of sustainability standards, share insights on the exponential growth of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) for sustainability and how this integrative technology is enabling standards to deliver a more tailored approach to compliance and capacity building, making certification more accessible to smallholders.

Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises, Technology, Water and Sanitation

April 17, 2018

Virtual Exchange: Students Collaborate to Tackle Social Enterprise Challenges in the Middle East

The M²GATE Virtual exchange program pairs students from Michigan & the Middle East to take on social enterprise challenges. Together they collaborate to identify a social problem in the region and come up with an entrepreneurial solution.

Education, Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises, Refugees and Migration, Social Enterprises, Water and Sanitation

April 3, 2018

Why Retailers are Uniting to Tackle Climate Change

The British Retail Consortium (BRC) explains how some of the UK’s leading retailers are coming together to strengthen the industry’s response to environmental challenges. Recognising that scale is essential to drive change, the BRC and has come together under the new initiative Better Retail, Better World, to build a better, more prosperous and sustainable world.

Climate & Environment, Climate Justice, Finance and Investment, Global Goals, Water and Sanitation

March 26, 2018

Engaging the Private Sector for Development Results in Indonesia

Nilmini Rubin, Vice President for International Development at Tetra Tech in Jakarta, Indonesia, shares how MCC-funded projects are engaging the private sector in cocoa production and other industries to achieve better development results.

Agriculture, Energy, Finance and Investment, Water and Sanitation

March 26, 2018

Sustainable Development

Advancing the Sustainable Development Goals