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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
Women farmers are central to fixing broken food systems, yet they remain excluded from the technologies, financing and markets needed to scale solutions. New research from CARE shows that reducing food loss and waste requires gender-responsive design, investment and partnerships. Empowering women farmers can strengthen food security, resilience and climate outcomes globally.
Strong partnerships are essential to building resilient, climate-smart supply chains. Drawing on ofi and GIZ’s multi-year collaboration, this article shares five practical lessons for empowering women farmers at scale. From aligning around shared challenges to designing inclusive, long-term programmes, it shows how partnership can unlock livelihoods, strengthen value chains and drive measurable impact.
Supply chain resilience begins at the household level. Drawing lessons from the cocoa sector in West Africa, this article explores how strengthening women’s financial inclusion, decision-making power and access to savings groups can stabilise farming families and reduce risks across global supply chains. When households become more resilient, companies gain stronger, more reliable and sustainable supply systems.
AI is helping women entrepreneurs save time, but not yet unlock the full growth potential of their businesses. Drawing on research across 3,000 women entrepreneurs in 66 countries, this article explores why AI adoption remains concentrated in marketing and communications, and what targeted action is needed to turn AI from a helpful tool into a genuine driver of resilience, productivity and growth.
As water scarcity intensifies, businesses must rethink not only how much water they use but who is most affected by its depletion. This article explores why gender equality, disability and social inclusion (GEDSI) are essential to effective corporate water stewardship, helping companies reduce operational risks, strengthen community trust and build more resilient, equitable water management strategies.
Despite growing commitments to gender equality, many supply chain programmes struggle to deliver real outcomes for women. This article argues the problem is not motivation but design. By rethinking how gender initiatives are structured—embedding context, capability, and evidence from the start—companies can move beyond participation metrics and create meaningful, lasting change in global supply chains.
Avon is redefining beauty through purpose-driven sustainability. From empowering millions of Representatives to innovative cruelty-free and refillable products, Avon’s strategy integrates climate action, ethical sourcing and gender equity. This article explores how Avon’s inclusive business model and ESG commitments are creating lasting social impact across communities and supply chains.
Women’s Entrepreneurship Day highlights a critical truth: empowering women entrepreneurs is essential for global economic growth. Despite driving innovation and community resilience, women still face systemic barriers to finance, digital access, networks, and safety. Closing the gender gap in entrepreneurship is not only a moral imperative—it is a powerful economic strategy with transformative potential.
