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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 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.
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, Climate and Supply Chains
A brief overview of the intersection of gender equality and climate action within supply chains, with insights on how businesses can take action.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
More Gender Resources
As we mark International Women’s Day 2025, the Work and Opportunities for Women (WOW) programme comes to a close after seven years of advancing women’s economic empowerment in global supply chains. Working across 12 countries, WOW has helped improve job access, working conditions, and financial independence while tackling broader issues like unpaid care, gender-based violence, and climate resilience. Its legacy highlights the ongoing challenges and opportunities in creating fairer, more inclusive economies.
Despite progress, gender equality remains a complex challenge, further complicated by political and cultural pushback. The Partnership Collective advocates for an equity-driven approach, introducing the Fairness and Opportunity Framework to transform global value chains. By fostering inclusive participation, collective action, and accountability, businesses can create fairer, more sustainable systems that benefit all stakeholders.
A new Toolkit, published by the UK Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office’s (FCDO) Work and Opportunities for Women (WOW) programme, provides guidance for multinational companies on boosting the resilience of their supply chains in low-and middle-income countries by investing in women. Integrating gender equity into ESG strategies can help to meet evolving human rights and environmental due diligence requirements, improving risk management while unlocking productivity, innovation, and brand value.
Investing in women’s health and reproductive rights is both smart climate action and good business. With women disproportionately affected by climate stressors—like heat, flooding, and forced migration—companies have a responsibility and a benefit in enhancing their health. Boosting women’s well-being strengthens supply chains, drives productivity, and builds resilience in the face of climate change.
