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Gender

What does gender equity mean for business?

How does business create gender equality? And how do you create a gender equal business?

How can you prevent and tackle gender-based violence across the workforce and value chain? How can you mobilise men as allies to drive gender equity?

Find out the answers to your business and gender related questions here.

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 businesses ensure gender equity throughout value chains?

This Resource Kit focuses on how businesses can empower women within their workforces and ensure gender equity throughout their value chains.

More Gender Resources

Women micro-entrepreneurs in Nairobi’s informal settlements struggle to get online and access the credit they need. Hand in Hand and Visa Inc.’s groundbreaking ‘acceleration’ programme tackled digital and financial exclusion, boosting participants’ profits by an average of 95%. Lucy Kerei, Programme Manager at Hand in Hand, Eastern Africa, shares how.
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Are you ready to learn from a young female entrepreneur from Ghana and an Africa and Middle East female finance leader from Pakistan who are passionate about the way we approach green tech solutions and improve incomes for smallholder farmers? Then buckle up and tune into this podcast featuring Social Impact Pioneers Audrey S-Darko and Khadija Hashimi
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With climate change having an outsize impact on women and girls, particularly those in developing countries, there must be a focus on the link between gender equity and climate as we consider climate solutions. This article highlights the role of carbon finance in channelling investment to projects impacting both, and the need to raise organisations’ climate ambitions.
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The Cherie Blair Foundation for Women’s latest research reveals the key challenges, motivations, and opportunities for women entrepreneurs. Here, the Foundation’s CEO, Helen McEachern, shares their key findings and calls on the private sector to take urgent action to support women entrepreneurs and help close the global gender gap in entrepreneurship.
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Coinciding with International Women’s Day, the Business Fights Poverty Gender Summit was the perfect opportunity to come together to share the latest thinking and action around gender equity. Together, we explored how to enhance the lives and livelihoods of women around the world, and empower them to thrive. This is your chance to gain access to the latest insights, with voices from across the globe.
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Listen in to explore the challenges and opportunities surrounding gender equality and women’s empowerment. The conversation goes beyond the standard gender equality rhetoric, peering deeper into some uncomfortable areas of why gender equality is in some cases stalling or reversing.
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