Insights

From Settler Colonialism to Standing Rock: Hearing Native Voices for Peace

Nancy S. Love, PhD Professor of Political Science at Appalachian State University On Politics, Music, and Indigeneity
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Empathy: A Global Imperative for Peace

An article calling to attention to the critical importance of empathy in human affairs, explaining how the employment of coarsening discourse can work against a civil society, and raises the crucial question of why empathy matters.
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How Music May Serve as a Nudge for More Ethical and Peaceful Business Behavior

Professor Fort outlines Indiana University’s special issue on Business, Music and Peace.
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Working Together to Enhance the Effectiveness of Musicking in Peacebuilding Activities

Do you like music? Have you ever wondered how much musical energy is produced on the planet at any given moment? Hundreds of millions of people are participating in musical events today. Now imagine that our challenge is the find the best ways to harness this tremendous energy to fight poverty
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Entrepreneurs Are Changing The World

The CEMEX-Tec Award, in alliance with other organisations, annually recognises entrepreneurs and students who develop high-impact initiatives to foster sustainable development, innovation and entrepreneurship. This year its global call will receive projects until May 31st 2018.
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From Gender Lens to Inclusive Impact Investment

By defining and disaggregating the ways investments empower women, beyond the very rudimentary criteria of solely investing in women, gender lens investing is helping to create frameworks and tools for the industry as a whole.
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Why We Must Go Beyond Economics In The Discourse on Empowerment of Women

With increasingly more women’s economic empowerment initiatives being announced Jemimah Njuki asks if these kinds of initiatives are enough to transform the lives of women, their families and communities? Exploring why we must go beyond economics in the discourse on empowerment of women.
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Gib Bulloch

Meet Gib Bulloch, Intrapreneur turned author, Intrapreneur-in-Residence at Business Fights Poverty, a Steward of The League of Intrapreneurs and a Visiting Fellow of Social Intrapreneurship at Cranfield School of Management.
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Five Years after Rana Plaza, We Still Must Do More to Empower Women Workers in Bangladesh

Five years ago the Rana Plaza tragedy turned the eyes of the world to Bangladesh and sparked a conversation about compliance, building safety and the empowerent of workers. BSR’s HERproject share four things they believe that brands, suppliers, and the development community can do to further the empowerment of women workers.
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Helping Refugees Move From Crisis To Resilience and Self-Reliance

Introducing our new Challenge on Business and Refugees with support from Pearson and in partnership with UNHCR, Mercy Corps, Business Call to Action, Innovest Advisory and Thomson Reuters Foundation. The Challenge aims to strengthen the foundation for effective partnerships to improve refugees’ wellbeing and educational and livelihood opportunities so refugees can thrive, not just survive.
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How Can Companies Develop Systems That Drive Commercial Innovation With Social Impact?

We are delighted to launch our new Intrapreneurship Systems Challenge, with support from the UK’s Department for International Development (DFID) and CEMEX, and in partnership with The League of Intrapreneurs, to explore how we can create an enabling environment that will systemise social innovation and intrapreneurship.
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Success on Every Corner: How Mom-and-Pop Shops Can Drive Growth in Africa

The Mom and Pop Shops Project, a partnership between TechnoServe, the Citi Foundation’s Pathways to Progress initiative, the elea Foundation, and others, aims to address skills gaps for micro retailers around Nairobi and Abuja. Here Technoserve share their insights about how to help micro-retailers become engines for local growth.
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4 Tips for Effective and Dynamic Groups

By allowing practitioners to share intelligence, learn from peers and work together, working groups improve the sector’s effectiveness and foster innovative ideas. But how do we ensure they are fit for purpose and generate greater impact? Here are some tips to create a vibrant and dynamic community.
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Affordability – Beyond the Buzzword

Affordability is at the core of much of CDC’s work as impact investors – from affordable electricity to housing, food, healthcare, education and many more. Yet ask someone to define what it means, and you may be met with little more than a blank stare.
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Time to Re-energise the INGO Model Through Structural Innovation

The international NGO sector faces significant disruption to its business models in the next decade. INGOs must think deeply about what kind of organisation they want to be in 2030 if they are to keep pace with shifts in demography, technology, climate, geopolitics and much else besides
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Making the Most of Interesting Times – and Achieving the Global Goals

Reflections on the turning point of Larry Fink’s ‘BlackRock Letter’ to business leaders and the urgent need to embrace large-scale collaboration to meet each of the 17 SDGs.
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5 Steps to Build Trust in Your Organisation

We have been witnessing a collapse in trust in businesses, the media and governments for a number of years now. Edelman’s recent 2017 global survey shows that trust in NGOs is also in decline. Rupert Younger shares his insights on how to rebuild trust in an environment of mistrust.
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WASH: Solving the Global Sanitation Crisis

A global crisis that affects over two billion people, water sanitation has turned into a primary concern of many of the world’s leading organisations. Business Connect outline key facts behind the crisis and discuss some actions and strategies currently being taken to tackle global sanitation challenges
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SDGs: What Part Do Forests Play?

Not only do forests provide a wide array of ecosystem services, such as absorbing greenhouse gases and regulating water quality, there are also over a billion people who depend on forests for their livelihoods. It is clear our forest ecosystems offer irreplaceable resources we can’t live without.
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Meet the Winner: The Olam Prize for Innovation in Food Security

At the International Forum for Food and Nutrition, four scientists were recognised for their work in finding global solutions to food security issues. Meet the winner of the Olam Prize for Innovation in Food Security, Dr Filippo Bassi, whose research could transform the lives of over 1 million smallholder farmers.
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