Insights

From Response to Rebuilding Better

Business Fights Poverty convened an online discussion on 14 May 2020 to examine how business can build purposeful collaborations to support the resilience and recovery of those most vulnerable to COVID-19. What examples of business best practice are available, and what practical actions could assist with the recovery and rebuilding better during and post COVID-19?
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Black Lives Matter Series: Views from the Business Fights Poverty Community – Dr Myriam Sidibe

Members of the Business Fights Poverty network share their reflections on Black Lives Matter in this series. Today we hear from Dr Myriam Sidibe.
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Black Lives Matter Series: Views from the Business Fights Poverty Community – Tomisin Fasosin

Members of the Business Fights Poverty network share their reflections on Black Lives Matter in this series. Today we hear from Tomisin Fasosin
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Black Lives Matter Series: Views from the Business Fights Poverty Community – Naomi Cameron-Wyatt

Members of the Business Fights Poverty network share their reflections on Black Lives Matter in this series. Today we hear from Naomi Cameron-Wyatt.
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Black Lives Matter Series: Views from the Business Fights Poverty Community – Dr Tauni Lanier

Members of the Business Fights Poverty network share their reflections on Black Lives Matter in this series. In this article we hear from Dr Tauni Lanier
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Black Lives Matter Series: Views from the Business Fights Poverty Community – Sizakele Marutlulle

Members of the Business Fights Poverty network share their reflections on Black Lives Matter in this series. In this article we hear from South African born Sizakele Marutlulle.
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Coronavirus, “Hunger-Virus” & The Lived Experience of Slum-Dwellers in Lockdown

Archipel&Co share a snapshot of how the COVID-19 crisis is impacting the daily lives of those living in low-income communities in the hopes that it might inform public, social and private sector understanding and response. It is not a full picture, but we hope it adds to the conversation. Most importantly, this is about ‘hearing’ from those whose voices are too often marginalised.
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Fighting Our Other Pandemic: Racism

At Business Fights Poverty, we believe that there is no place for racism in society and that businesses must be actively anti-racist and need to work collaboratively to fight it. It has been encouraging to see companies and our fellow organisations working in the social impact space coming out unequivocally to say that they believe, like we do, that Black Lives Matter. Yet making statements, or blacking out social media for a day, or even giving large philanthropic donations, is not enough. And it is not enough for two reasons.
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TWO WEEKS IN ONE!

Carers Week and Global Intrapreneur Week – taking place in the same week: two weeks in one. For me though these “two weeks in one” are not just a diary clash as two of my passions – by strange coincidence – choose the same week to promote their cause. Rather, they are a stimulus to reflect on how intrapreneurism can help improve support for carers – and why, in the future, caring should inspire more social intrapreneurs.
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Purposeful Collaboration to Fight COVID-19

While the focus has rightly been on responding to the most immediate impacts of COVID-19, we need to start thinking now about how to recover and “rebuild better”. Please share your advice on how we can best support this collective effort.
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Please Share Your Insights on Our COVID-19 Resources

We want to understand your priorities as we start thinking about how to recover and “rebuild better”, and how we can be most helpful to your work.
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Lessons for COVID-19-era CEOs

When the global economy is in crisis, the call for corporations to “lead with empathy” is no longer theoretical. Jane Nelson, founding director of the Corporate Responsibility Initiative at the Harvard Kennedy School, offers guidance.
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Holding Course in the Middle of a Storm: Navigating the Deeply Disrupted Decade Ahead

If we are to truly recover from COVID-19, then it will not be about putting things back together to how they were – we need to build back better and address these deep systemic vulnerabilities that have been allowed to develop over the last decades. So what are the main challenges ahead and how will business navigate them?
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In Emerging Markets, Entrepreneurial Support Organizations are Key to the COVID-19 Economic Response

In emerging markets, the COVID-19 crisis presents an even greater economic challenge than in the United States. The American economy was the strongest in the world before the crisis. Even now, under widespread stay-at-home orders, US unemployment has risen to only 20%, whereas most emerging market countries started the year with formal unemployment rates well above 20%.
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From Response to Rebuilding Better: A Framework for Action

The COVID-19 pandemic has had, and will continue to have, devastating impacts on the lives, livelihoods and learning of millions of people, particularly the most vulnerable. While efforts are rightly focused on mitigating the immediate impacts, we need to start thinking about how to recover and rebuild, because action taken now will have long-lasting effects on people’s wellbeing and resilience. This is an effort that must be led by government, but business, along with civil society, has a critical role to play.
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What Can the Covid Crisis Teach Us About Resilience: Building Stronger Organizations After COVID19

As a small-business manager, director of an organization or medium size NGO, your day to day is filled with urgent tasks. Until a crisis hits. Fernando Casado and Camila Lobo from GlobalCAD share insights on building stronger organisations after COVID19.
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From ‘Immediate Response’ to ‘Rebuilding Better’: Public Webinar and Online Discussion

In recent weeks, it has become clear that COVID-19 will sadly continue to have devastating impacts on the lives, livelihoods and learning of millions of people for the foreseeable future, and will exacerbate existing inequalities. As we come to terms with this new reality, what can we learn from the immediate response to the pandemic, and how can we use this knowledge to help us to recover and rebuild better?
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Businesses Want Governments on Stand-by for Coronavirus Relief

Seven years since the Rana Plaza disaster, the COVID-19 crisis is a stark reminder how businesses have a responsibility to their supply chain workers.
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What’s the Impact of Sustainable Farming on Smallholder Suppliers in Ethiopia?

In Ethiopia, the agriculture sector employs more than 70 per cent of the country’s population of 105 million people. Recently, Ethiopian farmers have been particularly vulnerable to the devastating impacts of the locust invasion affecting the country.
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How Can Business Help in the Building of National Coalitions to Fight COVID-19

The COVID-19 global pandemic is resulting in business, governments and civil society working together like never before. We are witnessing the mobilisation of national collaborations – such aKenya’s National Business Compact on Coronavirus –  to accelerate local action and support government efforts to counter the pandemic.
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