Harnessing the SDGs to Strengthen Smallholder Supply Chains: A Guide for Business
This business guide explains what the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are, how they link to smallholder sourcing programmes and ways for a company to contribute to their achievement. The guide was developed as part of the Challenge on the SDGs and Agriculture, in partnership with Sustainable Food Labs. The Challenge was supported by AB InBev, Mars and DFID. The guide sets out some practical steps to start the process of operationalising the SDGs, building on existing practices and sustainability work that field based teams are already engaged in, often in collaboration with other stakeholders.
Embedding the SDGs into Business
A guide that provides insights into the opportunities and challenges businesses face in integrating the Sustainable Development Goals into their core operations and supply chains. The guide was developed by Business Fights Poverty in partnership Ashridge Hult Centre for Business and Sustainability, as part of the Challenge on Embedding the SDGs. The Challenge was supported by Pearson, CEMEX, De Beers Group and DFID. Through company examples, the Guide illustrates the ways in which businesses are linking the SDGs to strategic priorities and bringing them to life in the business.
Business and the SDGs: Building Blocks for Success at Scale
A Report by Business Fights Poverty and Harvard Kennedy School’s CSR Initiative, looking at the critical enabling conditions
that must be in place to align business incentives and capabilities in favor of success at scale. This report identifies what these
“building blocks” are, takes stock of the progress we are making in putting them in place, and explores what more needs to be done.
Business and the United Nations: Working Together Towards the Sustainable Development Goals – A Framework for Action
The scale and ambition of the new Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) require us to be bold and creative in how we work together to achieve them. This report with Harvard Kennedy School’s CSR Initiative, and in partnership with the SDG Fund, provides a practical framework for how to engage effectively with business in support of the SDGs. It provides a business perspective on what works, what does not and what more can be done by the UN to harness the full potential of what business can bring.
Partnering for Impact: Supporting Systemic Change to Deliver the SDGs in Africa
A Report by Business Action for Africa, Harvard Kennedy School’s CSR Initiative and The Partnering Initiative, looking at how companies and their partners are working to catalyse systemic change in a wide range of ways. The report makes recommendations for all stakeholders concerned with establishing the means and mechanisms to tackle deeply entrenched systemic challenges.
A New Global Partnership with Business
This report by Business Action for Africa, Harvard Kennedy School’s CSR Initiative and The Partnering Initiative looks at the role of partnering with business deliver the Post-2015 development framework and achieve sustainable prosperity in Africa.
Business Partnerships for Development in Africa: Redrawing the Boundaries of Possibility
Business Action for Africa’s 2010 Report, produced with the CSR Initiative at the Harvard Kennedy School, examines how business- driven partnerships are addressing Africa’s development challenges in new and innovative ways, redrawing the boundaries of what is possible, and creating new frontiers for sustainable development and growth on the continent. Drawing on detailed case studies from BAA member companies and the Harnessing the Power of Business for Development Impact event series, supported by Business Action for Africa, UK’s Department for International Development (DFID) and the CSR Initiative at the Harvard Kennedy School, the report addresses four challenge areas—enterprise development, regional integration and trade, human development, and environmental sustainability— and examines the role of business and what can be achieved in collaboration with others.
MDGs at the Mid-Point: Accelerating Business-Led Growth and Collective Action
In 2008, halfway to the deadline for meeting the internationally-agreed Millennium Development Goals, Business Action for Africa invited a wide selection of leading thinkers to share their views on the evolving discussion about the role of business. The result is an insightful and thought-provoking assessment of the private sector’s role in accelerating progress towards the MDGs in Africa and the key priorities moving forward.
From Crisis to Opportunity: Harnessing the Power of Business to Sustain Momentum towards the MDGs
The 2009 global economic and financial crisis had severe implications for the economic and social progress made across Sub-Saharan Africa. At the same time it presented an opportunity to stimulate new thinking on how to generate innovative and more sustainable ways to support the region’s growth and development. Business Action for Africa invited a wide range of leading thinkers from business, government and the NGO community both international and from Africa to share their views on how to ensure the private sector continues to act as the engine room of growth and development, and the type of policies required to help businesses to manage and innovate through the crisis.
