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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 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 does paying living wages improve business performance and tackle 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
In this interview, we hear from Ulrich Assouah, Managing Director of IFP Humanitarian Studies, based in Douala, Cameroon. With a background in humanitarian leadership development, organisational governance, and capacity building for local NGOs and young professionals across Africa and fragile contexts, Ulrich brings a practitioner’s lens to the question of AI’s role in locally led humanitarian action.
Ambition at a Time of Crisis and Constraint: Harnessing Partnerships and AI for Global Development This paper explores how organisations can stay ambitious in a context of overlapping crises, rising needs and shrinking resources. Drawing on insights from Business Fights Poverty’s Partnerships Series, it highlights two practical routes forward: systemic partnerships that align incentives, share risk and build trust; and human-centred AI that can unlock knowledge, increase efficiency and extend capability while protecting rights, inclusion and accountability.
Across the corporate social impact community, budgets are tightening and many companies have gone quiet on commitments. New research from Project ROI, aggregating 640+ peer-reviewed studies, shows the opposite move: high-performing companies invest more in CSR during downturns. Here’s the data, and what it means for corporate leaders and their nonprofit partners.
The new TRANSFORM Playbook shares practical lessons from more than a decade of collaboration between Unilever, FCDO and EY. With contributions from Business Fights Poverty CEO and Co-Founder Zahid Torres-Rahman OBE, it offers timely guidance for impact accelerators and organisations seeking to build public-private partnerships that deliver lasting social impact.
Getting Growth Right: a vision for global prosperity in the next decade Organised by the International Growth Centre at the London School of Economics, the UK Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, and Business Fights Poverty, this official companion session to the FCDO Global Partnership Conference explores what it means to “get growth right” amid geopolitical fragmentation, AI, climate risk and demographic change. Building on the Beyond GDP agenda, it examines how growth metrics must evolve to support shared wellbeing, sustainability and resilience within planetary and social boundaries. Panellists from government, industry, academia and multilateral organisations discussed implications for policy, business and supply chains, and how countries can adopt credible, politically viable growth models. Host Jonathan Leape, Executive Director at International Growth Centre (IGC), London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) Opening Seema Malhotra MP, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State (Minister for Equalities) and Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State (Indo-Pacific), UK Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office Panellists Susan Brown, Deputy Head and UN Assistant Secretary General, United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Professor Lord Nicholas Stern, IG Patel Chair of Economics and Government, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) Asif Saleh, Executive Director, BRAC Payal Dalal, Executive Vice President, Global Programs, Center for Inclusive Growth, Mastercard Moderator: Cailin Birch, Global Economist, The Economist Intelligence Unit (The EIU) Closing His Excellency Mr. Ismaël Nabé, Minister of Planning, International Cooperation and Development of the Republic of Guinea
Getting Growth Right: a vision for global prosperity in the next decade Organised by the International Growth Centre at the London School of Economics, the UK Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, and Business Fights Poverty, this official companion session to the FCDO Global Partnership Conference explores what it means to “get growth right” amid geopolitical fragmentation, AI, climate risk and demographic change. Building on the Beyond GDP agenda, it examines how growth metrics must evolve to support shared wellbeing, sustainability and resilience within planetary and social boundaries. Panellists from government, industry, academia and multilateral organisations discussed implications for policy, business and supply chains, and how countries can adopt credible, politically viable growth models. Host Jonathan Leape, Executive Director at International Growth Centre (IGC), London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) Opening Seema Malhotra MP, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State (Minister for Equalities) and Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State (Indo-Pacific), UK Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office Panellists Susan Brown, Deputy Head and UN Assistant Secretary General, United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Professor Lord Nicholas Stern, IG Patel Chair of Economics and Government, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) Asif Saleh, Executive Director, BRAC Payal Dalal, Executive Vice President, Global Programs, Center for Inclusive Growth, Mastercard Moderator: Cailin Birch, Global Economist, The Economist Intelligence Unit (The EIU) Closing His Excellency Mr. Ismaël Nabé, Minister of Planning, International Cooperation and Development of the Republic of Guinea
