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The Business Fights Poverty Fortnightly Round-Up

Annabel Beales rounds-up Business Fights Poverty’s activities over the last two weeks. 
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COVID-19 and Responsible Restructuring

The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic has been devastating, particularly for impoverished countries with weak or non-existent health care and social protections and insufficient fiscal space to help struggling businesses. 
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How has global multi-dimensional poverty changed over the first ten years of measurement?

Sabina Alkire, presents the headlines from the latest Multi-Dimensional Poverty report. Poverty is not just about income – dollars per day. It includes indicators on poor health, education, housing and more. For the last ten years, we’ve been measuring this more nuanced multi-dimensional poverty – here’s what we’ve found.
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5 Insights From Business Fights Poverty Global Summit 2020

Business Fights Poverty Global Summit 2020 was packed full of insights – with 70+ speakers across nearly 40 sessions and 5 themes – and free learning content from our event partner Pearson.  It was great to be joined live by over 1,000 participants from all around the world. Our community also contributed 5 How-To Videos and 6 Seminars. So, it’s hard to pick out my favourite insights, but here goes. And if you missed any of the sessions, you can access the content using the link below
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The four blind spots companies working on purpose uncover

Last Monday I was invited to share my thoughts at the Business Fights Poverty 2020 conference in partnership with Pearson on: how can we embed purpose into business, as we rebuild better? The thought-provoking conversation with companies, academics, and NGOs reminded me of one thing: besides being a powerful force for change, purpose is a way to uncover business blind spots.
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The Business Fights Poverty Fortnightly Round-Up

Following a busy week of live events, peer networking and structured learning at our online conference, Annabel Beales provides a round-up of the wealth of video, podcast and written content we’ve published over the last fortnight. 
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Experts from the Business Fights Poverty Network share insights and practical tips in our new “How-To” Videos and Seminars. 

To help our members take their next step, we have released a set of “How To” Videos and Seminars to help answer the biggest question of all in the purpose debate: How can we translate our aspirations to rebuild better into practical action that makes the difference? 
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COVID-19 & Inequality Test Corporate Purpose

A new initiative designed to evaluate how well companies are living up to their statements of corporate purpose in a time of global crises seeks expert input from stakeholder communities.
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VIDEO: How do I measure my company’s sustainability performance?

Members of the Business Fights Poverty share their insights through a series of “how-to” videos and seminars on the themes of Business Fights Poverty Online 2020. Clara Barby, Chief Executive of Impact Management Project looks at how to measure a company’s sustainability performance.
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Seminar Video: What are the socio-economic impacts of COVID-19 on the most vulnerable?

Members of the Business Fights Poverty share their insights through a series of “how-to” videos and seminars on the themes of Business Fights Poverty Online 2020. Dr Dirk Willem te Velde is a Principal Research Fellow and Director for International Economic Development at the Overseas Development, Institute looks at the socio-economic impacts of COVID-19 on the most vulnerable
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VIDEOS: How to report on your company’s purpose, Integrated Reporting, GRI, SASB and more

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Financing impact start-ups: two solutions, two challenges

Crowd funding has been a sea change for start-ups, but more work needs to be done to make it accessible to developing world entrepreneurs. In addition, large companies and development charities could do much more to use a small part of their procurement budget to support start-up ecosystems.
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COVID-19: A Proposal for a Better World and an Opportunity Not to Be Wasted

The COVID-19 pandemic has given us a new purpose. We now have a rare opportunity to affect positive change. Beyond dialogue for creating awareness, it’s time to develop and implement tools that empower us to take committed action and credibly measure our progress toward affecting long-overdue transformations.
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Join Us for Business Fights Poverty Online 2020: Rebuild Better

We invite you to join us for Business Fight Poverty Online 2020, 13 to 17 July – a week of inspiring and engaging content, live events, peer networking and structured learning to explore how we can rebuild better together.
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The Business Fights Poverty Fortnightly Round-Up

Annabel Beales provides a sneak peak of what you can expect from our upcoming online event, Business Fights Poverty Online 2020: Rebuild Better, as well as a round-up of our written content over the past fortnight. 
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Business has a vital role to play in fighting poverty after the DFID-FCO merger

By some estimates, half a billion people globally will be pushed into poverty by COVID-19. For many in the international development community, therefore, the government’s decision to merge its Department or International Development (DFID) into the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) is ill-conceived and poorly timed.
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How can we help workers, SMEs and farmers thrive?

The coronavirus pandemic has exposed and exacerbated existing fragilities in value chains. How can we create opportunity and build resilience, especially for the most
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How can we embed purpose into business, as we rebuild better?

Efforts to rebuild better must be led by governments, but business, along with civil society has a critical role to play. Embedding purpose into
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Early actions to stop the spread of COVID-19 and help the most vulnerable

The Business Partnerships Platform brings government, business and NGOs together to scale business opportunities for social impact. The BPP, supported by the Australian Government and implemented by Palladium, has invested in 33 cross-sector partnerships. Our partners are rapidly pivoting their business models and finding innovative ways to support staff and communities during the COVID-19 crisis. 
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The Fortnightly Business Fights Poverty Round-Up 

Annabel Beales rounds-up Business Fights Poverty’s activities over the last two weeks. We have continued our Black Lives Matter Series; delved into how companies and investors can collaborate to embed purpose authentically into business; and examined how a focus on greater inclusivity can build resilience in the COVID-19 era. 
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