Delving into the Training of Trainers (ToT) model, this article evaluates its effectiveness and best practices. Drawing from Primark’s Ethical Trade Team’s experience and research, it offers insights into optimising ToT for large-scale knowledge dissemination and behaviour change.
As the impacts of climate change bite, business efforts to reduce emissions must now be matched by action to strengthen climate resilience. Here Dr. Tom Mitchell, Executive Director, International Institute for Environment of Development (IIED), sets out four action areas where companies can better protect themselves and others, while seizing opportunities to market resilience-enhancing products.
Discover the six principles that businesses can use to drive sustainable behaviour change in low-income communities. Based on his experiences with TRANSFORM, Dr. Richard L. Wright shares his insights and learnings to inspire other businesses to use their influence to help create more sustainable societies. Learn how to engage customers, broaden the conversation, ensure impact, and more.
International Women’s Day. A day to not only celebrate everyone who identifies as a woman but also help drive gender equity in the workplace. Alas our Masculinity in the Workplace report shows that there is still so much more work to do and that starts by ensuring we engage more men. And that means getting far more than just turning up to a IWD event once a year.
BSR’s HERproject, Gap Inc. P.A.C.E, CARE, and Better Work, have come together to launch RISE (Reimagining Industry to Support Equality) on International Women’s Day. The organization aims to empower women workers in the garment, footwear, and home furnishings supply chains by building on the founding partners’ proven approaches and expertise.
Women control over £14tn in annual consumer spending, expected to rise to nearly £21tn within five years. Designing for and with women is crucial to capture the value of the female economy. Leading companies create business models that serve women across all operations, uncovering biases and discovering new opportunities.
Entrepreneurs face a number of challenges to starting and running profitable businesses, and societal attitudes often present an additional obstacle for women. What role can media play in changing these attitudes, and how can we make such programming financially sustainable?
A narrow understanding of systems thinking is holding social impact non-profits back from creating transformative change. As long as ‘natural systems’ remain the domain of environmental non-profits alone, we perpetuate an arbitrary separation between nature and humans – one that suits the drivers of our exploitative systems. Instead, we need to think about our systems as social-ecological and recognise that nature is the concern of social impact makers too.
The insights in the Nudges and Bridges series aim to help everyone, including business people, understand how they can contribute to peace. In this video, Timothy Fort looks at lessons dogs teach us at a dog park, how religion is all about attempting to find perspective, and how two different plays in a football game can provide a perspective that lasts nearly a half-century.
The concept of “just transition” – a whole-of-society approach to decarbonisation that respects human rights while promoting sustainable development, the eradication of poverty, and the creation of decent work and quality jobs – has come increasingly centre stage in national and international discussions on finance, energy, agriculture, and other key industrial transitions to net-zero.
