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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 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.
How Can Businesses Tackle the Poverty Tsunami?
This Resource Kit, supported by Pearson, includes practical tools for businesses to support the lives, livelihoods and access to learning of the most vulnerable people and communities affected by the poverty tsunami.
A briefing paper exploring the current confluence of challenges and the role businesses can and should play: Facing the Poverty Tsunami Briefing paper
A report demonstrating a new perspective on how paying living wages benefits companies, workers and society: The Case for Living Wages report
Learn from a panel of experts in this live webinar: How can businesses tackle the new wave of poverty?
Learn from a panel of experts and members of the BFP community in this live workshop: How do we work together to tackle multidimensional poverty?
Insights from our live workshop: How do we work together to tackle multidimensional poverty?
How Paying Living Wages Improves Business Performance and Tackles Poverty?
This Resource Kit on living wages offers a multifaceted exploration of the concept, benefits, and implementation strategies of living wages globally. It serves as an essential guide for businesses, policymakers, and individuals interested in understanding and advocating for living wages.
A report demonstrating a new perspective on how paying living wages benefits companies, workers and society: The Case for Living Wages report
Learn from a panel of experts in this live Fireside Chat: How do we build a living wage movement?
Insight from our Written Discussion: The business case for paying living wages, and how business can implement it across their value chains?
More Poverty Resources
Our second session of our Community Forum on 16 July at 10am GMT+1 explores how to build effective partnerships across sectors to tackle complex challenges (Bridge 5). The online elements will be held on the forum and Zoom; this interactive written discussion invites shared insights and practical action.
Our first session of our Community Forum on 16 July at 10am GMT+1 explores how to build effective partnerships across sectors to tackle complex challenges (Bridge 5). The online elements will be held on the forum and Zoom; this interactive written discussion invites shared insights and practical action.
Our second session of our Community Forum on 21 May at 3pm BST explores how to better connect decision-makers with those closest to the issues (Bridge 4). The online elements will be held on the forum and Zoom; this interactive written discussion invites shared insights, bold ideas, and practical action.
Our first session of the Community Forum on 21 May at 10am BST explores how to better connect decision-makers with those closest to the issues (Bridge 4). The online elements will be held on the forum and Zoom; this interactive written discussion invites shared insights, bold ideas, and practical action.
With over 120 million displaced people worldwide, the digital economy offers an untapped opportunity to connect refugees to meaningful work. This article explores how businesses can close global talent gaps by integrating refugee workers through inclusive hiring and impact outsourcing. Featuring Na’amal Agency, it demonstrates how digital work can drive business success and social equity.
With the impacts of climate change exacerbating health inequalities, how can businesses promote health equity through their climate action? Partnership for Southern Equity relates how it worked directly with healthcare professionals to advance climate and health equity, and introduces four practical steps outlined in the new Centering Health Equity in Climate Action Toolkit for Businesses.
As AI advances globally, low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) risk being left behind. Yet AI holds transformative potential for addressing local challenges—from healthcare to climate resilience. This article explores the funding gaps, structural barriers, and innovation potential in LMICs, calling for inclusive investment, infrastructure, and policy to ensure AI delivers for everyone, everywhere.
As expectations rise and regulatory demands grow, businesses must strengthen their ability to manage social impact. This article outlines three key priorities for companies: addressing core worker concerns like wages and job security, using social data to inform decision-making, and building relationships across systems to tackle complex issues like forced labour and living wage.
How Can Collaboration Drive Fair Pay for Women in the Garment Sector? Hosted with Primark Gain an insider’s perspective on a pilot project which collected wage data and measured gender pay gaps in garment supply chains. Hear from Primark and the Fair Labor Association as they discuss the challenges, key lessons, and successes from this pioneering initiative. Learn practical strategies for identifying gender pay gaps and pursuing living wages for all factory workers.
