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Resource Kits
Explore our issue-based resource kits with downloadable, co-created learning resources. Everything you need to inform your organisation’s social impact strategy and stay ahead of emerging social impact trends.
How can we integrate gender into net zero planning in supply chains?
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This Resource Kit looks at how businesses can integrate gender equality with climate change initiatives in their supply chains and how this can be critical to achieving net-zero emissions by 2050. Companies can integrate gender through supply chain mapping, incentivising suppliers, and investing in gender-responsive projects to enhance outcomes.
Gender Integration in Carbon Projects
Practical guidance for Voluntary Carbon Market developers to create inclusive projects, improving outcomes for women. Includes steps, resources, and examples. This report is part of the FCDO’s Work and Opportunities for Women Programme.
Women and the Net Zero Economy
A toolkit on how companies can transition to a net-zero economy while economically empowering vulnerable women working in global value chains.
Decarbonisation with a Gender Lens
Guidance for companies on gender considerations they need to keep in mind when planning Scope 3 emissions reductions across their supply chain.
Applying a Gender Lens to Net-Zero
A workshop panel discussion sharing the latest thinking and examples on how applying a gender lens can help drive progress towards net-zero.
Climate and Women in Agriculture
A report looking at the impacts of climate change on women in agricultural supply chains, responses and recommendations for business action.
Gender and Climate Change Resources
A list of other resources for integrating gender and climate action in supply chains, including frameworks, case studies, videos and podcasts.
How can we measure women’s economic empowerment in supply chains?
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This Resource Kit focuses on measuring the impact of Women’s Economic Empowerment (WEE) in supply chains. It outlines initiatives and measures that businesses can adopt to empower women and improve gender equality in global supply chains. This starts with gender-disaggregated data and gender-sensitive audits to better understand and mitigate risks.
Aligning gender related activities to EU Regulations
This report shows businesses and organisations how to integrate gender equality into their activities aligned with current EU reporting metrics, specifically addressing the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD), covering broad ESG topics alongside gender-focused sustainability indicators and frameworks.
Women's Empowerment in Supply Chains
A toolkit for multinationals to reduce risks by investing in women, supporting sustainable practices and improving supply chain management.
Measuring Women's Empowerment
A brief overview of women’s economic empowerment, why it matters in supply chains and what lessons there are for businesses about measuring its impact.
Approaches to Measuring Impact
A guidance note identifying core indicators, principles and recommendations for effective, consistent measurement of women’s economic empowerment.
What Works for Empowerment
A report on what works to overcome barriers to women’s economic empowerment, participation, progression, voice and agency.
The Challenge of Data on Women
A report about how a lack of data about women in value chains inhibits companies’ ability to make informed business decisions, with advice on what they can do.
Measurement Resources
A list of other resources for measure the impact of women’s economic empowerment in supply chains, including guides, videos and links.
Managing Gender Inequalities in Supply Chains with Sam Ludlow Taylor
Sam Ludlow-Taylor, Senior Manager for Human Rights Programmes at the John Lewis Partnership, highlights the critical business and ethical importance of addressing gender inequalities in supply chains, emphasising that empowering women enhances economic and operational efficiency.
Ethical Supply Chain Management with Clare Fitton
Clare Fitton of Sedex discusses the importance of gender data and ethical supply chain management in enhancing business performance and improving lives, emphasizing how gender-inclusive practices and effective data use can drive economic and social benefits in global value chains.
What is the care economy, and why does it matter in supply chains?
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This Resource Kit explores the barrier of unpaid care work to women’s advancement in professional roles. It provides guidance on why and how companies can address this alongside other gender equity issues within supply chains. By recognising, reducing, and redistributing unpaid care work, businesses can enhance gender equity and supply chain resilience.
The Care Economy and Why it Matters
A brief overview of the importance of the care economy in global supply chains, and what companies can do to address unpaid care work.
Care and Female Garment Workers
A report on unpaid work and care for female garment workers in Bangladesh with advice for brands, buyers and suppliers.
Tackling Women’s Invisible Labour
A guide to help businesses address unpaid, invisible labour and unrecognised care, recognising the opportunities of action and costs of inaction.
Care Economy Resources
A list of other resources to help businesses unlock the potential of the care economy, including toolkits, case studies, videos and links.
How Can Businesses Support Healthier Futures for Women, Children, and Adolescents?
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This Resource Kit is the product of a collaboration with the Global Financing Facility looking at how businesses can support healthier futures for women, children, and adolescents. It provides insights into the private sector’s role in advancing health through innovation, collaboration, and family planning, while sharing lessons from entrepreneurs and workshops on leveraging technology for impact. By prioritizing health equity, businesses can drive progress toward the SDGs and global development.
Delivering healthier futures for women children and young people
This discussion paper explores the private sector’s role in improving health for women, children, and youth through innovative solutions and collaboration to achieve the SDGs.
Driving Health Outcomes for Women and Children
A webinar on how to discover the pivotal role of businesses in advancing health for women, children, and adolescents during the Business Fights Poverty Equity Summit.
Catalysing female entrepreneurship and improving access to healthcare
This insights paper shares lessons from a workshop with Reckitt and WiNFUND, featuring 6 African entrepreneurs on supporting women entrepreneurs and leveraging technology, including AI.
Revolutionising Maternal Health Supply Chains
Discover how innovative public-private partnerships, like those in Mozambique involving GFF, MSD for Mothers, and the USP Foundation, leverage AI, big data, and supply chain solutions to transform maternal health outcomes in underserved regions with Jeffrey Jacobs and Tara Tagmyer.
Why Family Planning Should Be a Business Priority for Essential Healthcare
Discover why family planning is a critical healthcare service and how businesses can play a pivotal role in prioritizing it to support global health and development.
More Gender Resources
Climate change is already harming garment workers—especially women—through extreme heat, flooding, illness, lost wages, and increased violence. RISE’s new research reveals how climate risks cascade through workers’ lives and offers actionable steps for brands and manufacturers. The call is clear: climate action in the garment sector must start with listening to workers.
Accelerators are touted as engines of SME growth. Yet most target established businesses, leaving low-income women behind. Hand in Hand’s grassroots accelerator proves their potential: over 8,000 women have scaled businesses, boosting incomes, creating jobs, and lifting families well beyond the poverty line. Amalia Johnsson, Hand in Hand International CEO, explains why inclusive growth demands we accelerate women too.
Challenging stereotypes through marketing isn’t just good ethics—it’s smart business. With global ad spend nearing $2 trillion, brands have immense power to shift harmful beliefs. This article explores how inclusive communications can reduce discrimination, boost ROI, and unlock competitive advantage—if businesses act now, before the window of opportunity closes.
Claire Sibthorpe from the GSMA explores how progress in closing the mobile internet gender gap has stalled, with women 14% less likely than men to use mobile internet. She highlights key barriers including handset affordability and digital skills, and the $1.3 trillion GDP opportunity. Urgent, targeted action from stakeholders is needed to prevent women being left behind digitally.
Online gender-based violence (GBV) is driving women-owned micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) offline, shrinking markets, profits and global economic growth. This MSME Day, we’re calling for the private sector to take urgent action to address this issue and create a more inclusive digital business world. Our new research with Intuit and the World Bank’s ‘Women, Business, and the Law’ project sheds light on how.
Despite making up the majority of the garment, footwear, and textile workforce, women are vastly underrepresented in leadership and technical roles. A new RISE report explores how businesses can unlock flexible, inclusive pathways for career advancement—boosting retention, equity, and resilience. From fair promotion systems to childcare support, the solutions are practical, scalable, and urgent.
Women entrepreneurs are vital to economic growth, yet continue to face persistent barriers—especially in accessing finance. This article explores how Learning Networks, like WE Connect in Vietnam, bring together ecosystem actors to co-create practical solutions. Through shared knowledge, innovation, and partnership, these networks can drive inclusive finance and long-term success for women-led enterprises.
