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COVID-19: How Business and NGOs Can Partner to Support our Global Community Through the Pandemic

Mercy Corps joined a recent Business Fights Poverty online discussion on supporting NGO partners, Lisa Seymour-Doughty, Senior Manager Strategic Partnerships, shares reflections on Mercy Corps response to the pandemic and how the need to work together has never been more important.
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From ‘Immediate Response’ to ‘Building Back Better’: Public Webinar

Many of us want to make a difference in these unprecedented times, but it can be hard to know when, where and how to take action. To help companies address the challenges posed by the novel coronavirus, Business Fights Poverty will host a webinar to explore the Business and COVID-19 Response Centre, which is designed to guide companies’ immediate response to COVID-19 and efforts to rebuild, with a focus on protecting the most vulnerable.
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CEOS from 25 countries Call for G20 Support to Help Developing Country Producers Fight Covid-19

Partners and supporters of Business Fights Poverty will be as concerned as we are about the impact that Covid-19 is having on people across our shared world, and will be at the forefront of efforts to protect people’s health and livelihoods.
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COVID-19 and the Garment Industry: Protect Workers, Transform the Industry

The garment industry employs 60 million workers around the world, nearly 75% of whom are women. The International Labour Organization has estimated that nearly 25 million jobs could be lost as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, and women working in garment supply chains are particularly vulnerable. During this period of crisis, CARE is calling on brands, governments, supplier factories, trade unions and civil society to take action to protect the rights of women working in the garment industry.
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Covid-19 and Creating the Future We Want

Dame Polly Courtice, Director of the Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership (CISL), reflects upon the impact of Covid-19 on business, society, and our collective future.
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Covid-19 and the Voluntary Sector

The voluntary sector has been badly hit by the crisis, but exactly how much is it worth to the economy and to society? Jonathan Roberts argues that any proposed government support should acknowledge the voluntary sector’s wide societal contributions, and should not focus on charities alone.
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The Business and COVID-19 Action Mapping Tool is Now Live

Learn more abut the searchable Action Mapping Tool with over 200+ examples of best practice, a featured resource in the Business and COVID-19 Response Centre.
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How Start-Ups are Helping to Fight COVID-19? An Emerging Market View: Kerala

Globally, in the last couple of weeks, we have seen collaboration apps and start-ups like PhoneSoap and Slightly Robot develop innovations catering to respond to the challenges from the ‘new-normal’, of our lives. From the emerging market context of India, particularly in the state of Kerala, I am noticing a relatively silent (for the global audience), but remarkable response of entrepreneurs and innovators to the pandemic.
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How Can Businesses Support their NGO Partners Through the Impact of COVID-19?

Many NGOs are facing multiple operational and business continuity threats from the COVID-19 crisis and the efforts to contain it. A new Action Toollkit has been developed following a recent Business Fights Poverty online discussion to explore how business should respond: what factors should they consider, and what actions can they take to support their NGO partners during these challenging times and into the future?
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COVID-19 is a Chance to Invest in Our Essential Infrastructure Workforce​

Infrastructure workers were essential long before COVID-19, but their economic importance has come into greater focus during the crisis and is beginning to shape the response, too. As federal, state, and local leaders look to provide economic relief, they must pay special attention to the support and protection of our current infrastructure workforce.
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Business Collaboration to Fight COVID-19 in Kenya

On April 9, Business Fights Poverty hosted a webinar with the National Business Compact on Coronavirus, that focused on action being taken in Kenya, and the lessons that can be learnt for other countries.
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Launching the Business and COVID-19 Response Centre

Yesterday, we should have been coming together in Washington for Business Fights Poverty DC 2020. Instead, we have launched our new Business and COVID-19 Response Centre. We asked Iain Forrest, who was due to perform in DC, for a video that we are dedicating to all front line workers helping us #FightCOVID19​
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Don’t Allow the Coronavirus to Open Up Another Front

Healthcare workers are valiantly fighting, and too often dying, on the front lines in the global response to coronavirus. But what started as a health crisis could turn into a food crisis unless we take measures now. Preventing a food crisis is key to maintaining the strength to fight back.​
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Shaping a New Social Contract Through the Pandemic

The actions of governments, business, investors and civil society in response to COVID-19 will shape our futures, write Mary Robinson and Phil Bloomer.​
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Covid-19: ‘We Won’t Get Back to Normal Because Normal was the Problem’

Discussions about the world that will emerge from the coronavirus pandemic have already started apace. Many commentators are wondering whether the crisis offers the opportunity to set the world on a more sustainable and equal path. The Covid-19 recovery offers an opportunity to create a different type of ‘normal’ – one that can help restore trust in the state and reaffirm crucial economic and social rights.​
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In the wake of the Coronavirus Pandemic: Do Non-Profits need to Rethink Sustainability?

The COVID-19 virus is destined to leave a deep mark on our world for years to come. It has decimated industries; created mass unemployment across the globe; and there have already been tens of thousands of deaths. Will the coronavirus also leave a mark on how the non-profit sector works?
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Why We Need Social Intrapreneurs More than Ever During COVID-19

Our economic system is at a crossroads. We are not only dealing with the COVID-19 pandemic, the single most impactful event of a generation but also the increasing effects of climate change and social inequality are not going away.​
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An Old Movie For Our Times

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How Researchers Can Aid the COVID-19 Response

As COVID-19 began to spread in sub-Saharan Africa, research company GeoPoll conducted a remote study in South Africa, Kenya, and Nigeria on awareness and perceptions of coronavirus. At this critical time, research providers can aid the global response by providing humanitarian organizations and private companies with up-to-date information from around the globe.​
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Coronavirus measures will hit women harder than men, charities warn

Data is urgently required to highlight the different impact of coronavirus on women and men, with early signs that women face higher levels of violence and more care work.
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