Inclusive Business

Race to the top: How we pushed supermarkets to take human rights seriously

From new gender policies to commitments on living wages, Oxfam have come a long way since they published its first supermarkets scorecard in 2018. Radhika Sarin explains what does the 2022 scorecard reveals and what more must be done.
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What is a value chain? And why you should care.

Farmer-centered agricultural value chains are a critical pathway to help vulnerable people provide nutritious food for their families and communities, while earning a Sustainable Living Income. Heifer Impact Capital is working to transform value chains that traditionally exclude farmers by deploying financing to optimize local value chains to keep income in the pockets of farmers.
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Jiselle and Cesar, On Gender Transformative Approaches

Cesar and Jiselle share some of their 30 plus years of experience working on women’s empowerment. Together they have recently been working on ‘gender transformative approaches.’ Cesar and Jiselle deep dive into what this means and the practicalities of implementing gender transformative approaches – for businesses everywhere, across value chains.
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Inclusive future of work for women with disabilities

The inequalities experienced in the world of work for women with disabilities (WWDs) are significant and need to be addressed. Employability data for WWDs are hard to obtain locally, and where data is available the labour market participation rate of WWDs is lower than that of the general population.
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With their own businesses and as workers, Egypt’s women can be winners

The Rabeha programme, run jointly by the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) and UN Women, aims to significantly boost women’s economic empowerment in Egypt by mid-2024.
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Empowering underserved women around the globe

Inclusive Businesses are uniquely equipped to improve gender equality. As commercially profitable, yet impact-driven companies, they follow the market and their social vision. Both paths lead towards women empowerment.
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Robust social metrics for ESG investing: A practical way for boards to invest for impact

Almost two trillion dollars is being invested in ESG investment vehicles annually. And yet to date the instruments for investing and tracking the impact of the social dimensions are weak. The Citi-SOPHIA Oxford collaboration has uncovered a robust way to improve this.
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The time to accelerate the “S” in ESG is now

Parental leave is just one of many topics that workers in factories needs to learn more about. With 16 weeks stipulated by law it is quite generous from an international perspective, but with many factories lacking effective training tools, and many workers unable to read and write, this is sadly often missed.
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‘Inequality kills’ but only 1% of companies show social responsibility

A new assessment shows that just 1% of the world’s most influential companies are demonstrating the fundamentals of responsible business conduct. Dan Neale outlines what needs to change for the private sector to address rather than add to growing inequality.
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Addressing Forced Labor from the Bottom Up

Forced labor, also referred to as modern slavery, is one of the most pervasive issues facing supply chains today. For our part to contribute to these efforts, Quizrr has launched a global initiative to eradicate forced labor in supply chains with the support of funding from The Walt Disney Company’s Supply Chain Investment Program.
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Looking ahead to 2022: climate justice, food systems and the private sector

Practical Action collate their top pieces and events, delving into the topics of climate justice, food systems and the private sector.
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Powering the just transition – The biggest opportunity for inclusive business

Markus Dietrich, celebrates his 10th anniversary in the inclusive business community and reflects on the journey of the once ‘new paradigm for doing business’. How far did we get since then? Did IB end up on the dust heap of history as another management concept that was overtaken by another school of thought? Looking at the management literature one could almost think so, as now the net-positive company is being proclaimed as the new kid on the block. But IB has proven very resilient; there is even a fair share of IB in the net-positive company.
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The role of social procurement for inclusive value chains

By definition, social procurement leverages the purchasing power of companies to achieve broader social impact objectives. It goes beyond responsible sourcing which integrates and manages ESG criteria into the procurement process. Instead, it focuses on buying goods, materials, or services from social businesses with the explicit intention to create net positive impact.
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Investing in poverty reduction and global growth with Alicia Phillips Mandaville

How do you effectively spend billions of dollars of taxpayer’s money to help fight global poverty? And how do you invest for climate resilience and account for the unknown such as the risks of pandemics? We hear from Alicia Phillips Mandaville who is the Vice President of the Department of Policy and Evaluation at The Millennium Challenge Corporation (the MCC)
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Let’s learn from local communities and step up more to create climate and social impact

An article from the latest edition of CLUED-iN, giving hands-on insights on how exactly inclusive businesses are already living up to climate and social impact expectations ahead of COP26, and what is needed to help other entrepreneurs to step up.
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How can business-led innovation support refugees?

As the humanitarian landscape changes and COVID-19, with its associated economic turbulence accelerates need, business has a key role to play in supporting the livelihoods of refugees. The Business Refugee Action Network (BRAN) has explored the implementation of new, business-led approaches to employing refugees and reflected on the impact of COVID-19.
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Since the pandemic, many businesses have accelerated their strategies towards greater social purpose.

Are you a company considering Corporate Social Investing as a way to mainstream purpose within your business? Reach out to Sophie Faujour at EVPA on sf******@*****eu.com for an informal chat and guidance. This article by Sophie also provides valuable insights.
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How can companies contribute to growth that generates benefits for society as a whole?

At the Business Roundtable for Inclusive Growth, Fundación CODESPA and a group of Spanish companies dedicated their 2020 annual research study to answer the question above. As a result, it has inevitably sparked another question: Is inclusive growth possible now, in times of socio-economic crisis?
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How Can Businesses Support Economic Inclusion for People in Extreme Poverty?

Before COVID-19, over 700 million people worldwide were living in extreme poverty. The pandemic could push an additional 150 million people into extreme poverty by the end of 2021. People experiencing extreme poverty already have limited access to health care, food, clean water, and public services. They face obstacles in accessing markets, employment opportunities, and financial services, and this inequality has only increased due to pandemic lockdowns.
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Inclusive businesses’ insights to staying resilient in times of crisis

Inspiring inclusive businesses have invested in their relationships with stakeholders, shared experiences and strengthened public-private partnerships to stay resilient during the Covid-19 pandemic and tackle the needs of low-income communities around the globe in times of crisis.
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