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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 to Build Partnerships for Green and Inclusive Growth?
This Resource Kit includes practical tools for businesses to build Partnerships for Green and Inclusive Growth, unlock the benefits of integrating social and environmental goals, and enhance supply chain resilience through collaborative efforts for sustainability and improved nutrition.
Building future fit partnerships for green and inclusive growth
A Report on collaborations for sustainable development, featuring frameworks and case studies to address poverty, inequality, and climate change. Developed with the FCDO and Business Fights Poverty.
Green and Inclusive Partnership Examples
This provides a snapshot of partnership action relevant to green and inclusive growth. It describes over 50 different initiatives, spanning food and agriculture, fintech, fast-moving consumer goods, energy and infrastructure, and health.
Partnering for Green and Inclusive Growth with FCDO
Watch the Fireside Chat with the UK’s Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office to explore a new vision for how businesses can partner for green and inclusive growth.
Supply Chain and Farmer Resiliency
An Insights Paper Insights from the Mars-Tanager Mint Partnership in India, linking supply chain strength to farmer resilience through sustainable, farmer-centered interventions.
How Business Can Unlock the Benefits of Integrating Social and Environmental Goals
Watch this hybrid workshop with Mars Inc to learn from the latest research on the business case for integrating social and environmental strategies into business strategy.
Acting Together for More Nutritious Food
This article, by Christina Tewes-Gradl, Richard Gilbert, and Jane Nelson, explores key opportunities to enhance food fortification efforts, emphasizing collaboration and policy advocacy to tackle global micronutrient deficiencies.
The View on Partnership from Global South Business Leaders
These Spotlight Interviews provide insights from business leaders on how partnerships can drive social and environmental impact, focusing on trust, shared goals, and adaptability to achieve scalable solutions in areas like sustainability and social innovation.
More Climate Resources
Watch this Fireside Chat and Hybrid Workshop with Futuremakers by Standard Chartered to explore how to improve the finance ecosystem for young women entrepreneurs who run microbusinesses, identifying solutions and how they can be scaled up. Fireside Chat: INTERVIEWEES: Tameka Ridley, Futuremaker – Founder and CEO, I AM LIT Elizabeth Ochieng, Futuremaker – Founder and CEO, Ento Farms Alice Muhuhu, Futuremaker – Founder, Aurora Health Systems INTERVIEWER: Natasha Kwakwa, Global Head, Community Impact, Standard Chartered Workshop: OPENING SPEAKERS: Anita Tiessen, CEO, Youth Business International (YBI) Allie Burns, CEO, Village Capital Maureen Moraa Mogoah, Partnerships & Fundraising Manager, Somo Africa Edith Chumba, Head of Wealth & Retail Banking, Standard Chartered, Kenya MODERATORS: Katie Hyson, Director of Thought Leadership, Business Fights Poverty (in New York) Bill Omondi, Community Engagement Lead, Kenya, Business Fights Poverty (in Nairobi)
Watch this Hybrid Workshop with Meta on how companies can remain ambitious in delivering social and environmental innovation while ensuring compliance with the evolving regulatory landscape. PANELISTS: Amanda Gardiner, Head, ESG, Meta Lazaro Tiant, Sustainable Investment Research, Schroders Caroline Rees, President, Shift Alija Blackwell, #STMIC Fellow, New America and US National Lead Futures Methods From Around the World, School of International Futures (SOIF)
Watch this fireside chat with Cargill and CARE on how to help farmers and communities adapt to and mitigate climate change shocks and other impacts. Together we examined solutions that partnerships offer communities around the world. INTERVIEWEES: Taryn Davis, Senior Director, Strategic Partnerships & Stakeholder Engagement, Cargill Chris Noble, Corporate Partnerships, CARE
Watch this Webinar with Primark and ICRW to explore new research on attitudes held by male factory managers towards gender equity themes and resources to engage men as allies in empowering women workers in factories. Matthew Davidson, Senior Social Impact Executive, Primark Sue Tym, Social Impact Portfolio, Senior Manager, Primark Radhika Uppal, Gender and Development Specialist, International Centre for Research on Women Rachel Oguntola, Senior Project Manager, Private Sector Development, International Centre for Research on Women
Watch this Hybrid Workshop with Anglo American and IFC (a member of the World Bank Group) on behalf of the WBG Climate Smart Mining initiative, to explore how businesses and their partners can ensure that the pursuit of minerals essential to clean energy has a positive impact on the lives and livelihoods of people across the supply chain. PANELISTS: Richard Morgan, Head of Government and International Relations (UK, Middle East and Africa), Anglo American Dr. Gracelin Baskaran, Director for Project on Critical Minerals Security, Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) Arsalan Mahtafar, Head of J.P. Morgan Development Finance Institution, J.P. Morgan Agathe Bukasa, Executive Director, The Fair Cobalt Alliance Mpumi Zikalala, Chief Executive Officer Kumba Iron Ore, Anglo American MODERATOR: Arjun Bhalla, Global Climate Advisory Lead, IFC
Watch this Fireside Chat with BioSolutions provider Novonesis to explore strategies and initiatives to engage young people, women and stakeholders in people-centred climate action. INTERVIEWEES: Morten Enggaard Rasmussen, EVP People & Stakeholder Relations, Novonesis Fred Onduri, Chair, Advisory Board, The Climate Technology Centre and Network (CTCN) Inés Yábar, Lead Next Generation Fellow, UN Foundation INTERVIEWER: Katie Hyson, Director, Thought Leadership, Business Fights Poverty
Watch this Hybrid Workshop with Reckitt on unleashing social innovation to increase access to water and health by leveraging powerful partnerships and overcoming barriers to scale. OPENING SPEAKERS: Pradeep Kakkattil, CEO, Health Innovation Exchange (HIEx) Sergio López Ramos Executive Director, Yunus Social Business (YSB) Murendeni Mafuso, Founder & CEO, Kusini Water Sylvana Sinha, Founder, Chair, & CEO, Praava Health Elsie Wandera, Chief Executive Officer, Heroes for Change François Bonnici, Director, Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship; Head of Foundations, World Economic Forum (WEF) MODERATOR: Hamzah Sarwar, Global Social Impact and Partnerships Director, Reckitt
Watch this Fireside Chat with Merck on how innovative multi-stakeholder partnerships centred on the needs of rural communities can lead to transformative and timely healthcare being delivered to those who need it the most. INTERVIEWEES: Lisa K. Robertson, Executive Director, Indiana Immunization Coalition Charlotte Muheki, Director of Primary Health Care, Amref Health Africa Dr Vignesvari Subramaniam, Deputy Medical Director, National Cancer Society Malaysia INTERVIEWER: Josette Gbemudu, Executive Director, U.S. Health Equity, Merck
Watch this Community Clinic with experts and practitioners from across the global Business Fights Poverty community to share fresh insights and actionable advice. We’ll be hosting sessions online and in Nairobi. Speakers: Eunice Barasa, Founder/CEO, LYMA MEDIA Saksham Nijhawan, Energy Transition Lead, Forum for the Future Mariana Felicio, Sr. Social Development Specialist, World Bank Dr. Shyam Kumar Katta, Director Programs, Heifer International Larry Reed, Executive director, Thrive Lights, The Poverty Stoplight Kris Ansin, Kenya Country Director, TechnoServe Muthoni Karubiu, Head of Operations, Amini Vallen Omari, Legal Manager and Lead Advisor, Izwe Loans Kenya and Rhenium Pro Global Consultants Grace Waswa, ESG Lead, MMW ADVOCATES LLP Grace Cramer, Tech and Innovation Theme Leader, FCDO
