Insights

Sweet Dreams: Sweet Story

Readers of Business Fights Poverty have been exposed to the arguments for how business might contribute to peace. They have also seen examples of how music can do the same. Many studies have shown corollaries of how gender equity promotes peace. If you want a film that shows all three of these factors in action, one can’t do any better than Sweet Dreams.
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Corporate/ Impact Enterprise Partnerships – Part 2 – Now for the Hard Part

In this, the second of two blogs, Jon Shepard draws together existing strands of thought on partnerships between large corporations and ‘impact enterprises’, and throw in their own experience from work with several corporate accelerator programmes.  Until recently, Jon led EY’s work with impact entrepreneurs in the emerging markets.
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Most Brands’ Support Of Causes Is Not Breaking Through To Gen Z

New study from DoSomething Strategic reveals disconnect between brands and their support of social causes in the minds of younger consumers. Savage x Fenty, Dove, and Love Beauty and Planet receive among the highest association between brand and cause.
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To Boldly Go Where We’ve Not Been Before Doesn’t Need to be a Leap of Faith

Star Trek’s Chief of Logic (COL), Spock nailed it when he said that “The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few.” If we are bold and if we act now to change our organisations and our systems we will help ensure that future generations do that other thing the pointy-eared one said and “Live long and prosper.” ​
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Business as Usual – Or Business with Purpose?

As we launch our new strategy, Laura Kelly, Director of IIED’s Shaping Sustainable Markets research group, considers how the private sector can respond to development and environmental challenges – and how IIED can support business to deliver positive change.
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Corporate / Impact Enterprise Partnerships: Still Hard, Still Worth It.

In this, the first of two blogs, Jon Shepard draws together existing strands of thought on partnerships between large corporations and ‘impact enterprises’, and throws in recent experience from work with several corporate accelerator programmes.  Until recently, Jon led EY’s work with impact entrepreneurs in the emerging markets.
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Business Fights Poverty At the Movies

This is the first of an ongoing set of columns commenting on how movies feature cultural foundations. Film itself, of course, is one of those cultural artifacts. It also can capture contributions from sports, music, and business. Once a month, I’d like to share the experience of the film and invite your thoughts about it.
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What Role Can Business Play To Tackle Gender-Based Violence? Experts Share Practical Learnings and Experiences

As part of our current Business Fights Poverty Challenge, What Role Can Business Play to Tackle Gender Based Violence, we hosted an Online Discussion. This brought together a panel of experts from around the world to share their insights and experience.
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How Can We Improve the Response to Forced Displacement? An Opportunity to Partner with Save the Children

At the end of 2018, Save the Children’s Migration and Displacement Initiative (MDI) launched its Predictive Displacement prototype tool. MDI is now developing the second iteration of the tool – a more precise and powerful version – and calls on humanitarian and technological partners for support.
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We Need a Reskilling Revolution. Here’s How to Make it Happen

As the world faces the transformative economic, social and environmental challenges of Globalization 4.0, it has never been more important to invest in people.
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Fashion has a Huge Waste Problem. Here’s How it Can Change

The biggest trends in fashion today are ones no one wants to be seen in. They include vastly increased clothing production and declining use, massive levels of waste and more greenhouse gas emissions than international shipping and flights combined.​
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The Purpose Statement: Necessary, but Insufficient

Many organisations, big and small, put a lot of work into discovering their Purpose and crafting their Purpose Statement. They’re also defining or refining their Values, as a star chart to guide the positive evolution of their culture. Done thoroughly and inclusively, this is critically important work.
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What Role Can Business Play in Addressing Issues Around Gender-Based Violence?

Join us for a live written online discussion with a panel of experts to explore the role business can play in addressing issues around gender-based violence. This live online written discussion will take place on Thursday 28 March, 15.00 GMT / 11.00 EDT
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Why Addressing Gender-Based Violence is an Imperative for Business Today

Why is addressing gender-based violence (GBV) a key issue, which should be on the business agenda? Business Fights Poverty’s Challenge Author, Chiara Condi, talks about why eliminating GBV is essential to reaching all other UN Sustainable Development Goals.
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CEO Agenda 2019: An Ambitious Vision Lacking Commitment or Detail

The CEO Agenda 2019 was launched at DAVOS by a number of leading fashion brands, with support from Global Fashion Agenda. CARE share where they see important gaps in this agenda and limitations to what it can achieve in its current form.
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What She Makes: The True Price of Fashion

The Australian fashion industry was worth almost $23.5 billion in 2018 — a staggering amount. But a system of entrenched exploitation and the widespread payment of poverty wages is denying the workers making our clothes the opportunity for decent lives.
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Cash Transfers and Gender Equality

This year’s Commission on the Status of Women focused on social protection, access to public services and sustainable infrastructure. IDS researchers attending the event at the United Nations in New York sought to highlight the evidence on what works in each of these areas in terms of achieving gender equality and empowering women and girls.
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Mind the Gap & Fix the Mix: Gender Equality in Private Equity

In March this year, the IFC launched a new report, “Moving Toward Gender Balance in Private Equity and Venture Capital”, which explores the link between financial returns and gender diversity; the lack of women in the industry; and steps needed to achieve gender balance.​
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Avon, Diageo and M&S Join Call for an International Treaty to Protect Women at Work

Ending violence and harassment in the workplace: on International Women’s Day, leading companies join CARE in calling for an international treaty to protect women at work.
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Women are Power

“What do you dream about today?” A poignant question on International Women’s Day from Chiara Condi, Gender Diversity Expert, Advocate, Founder of Led By Her and Challenge Author for Business Fights Poverty’s latest Challenge: ‘What Role Can Business Play in Tackling Gender-Based Violence?” In her piece, Chiara shares her opinion on how can we accelerate towards ‘the extinction of inequality’.
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