Insights

COP15: Businesses Commit to Helping Grow a World Wonder

Business Fights Poverty joined with the UNCCD (United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification) in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire this week to launch the Great Green Wall (GGW) Sourcing Challenge. The Challenge aims to bring together companies and other partners to help unlock the potential of the Sahel, the semi-arid region stretching across Africa just south of the Sahara, from the Atlantic Ocean to the Red Sea.
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Bridging the Supply Chain Gender Gap through Digital Training

The COVID-19 pandemic impacted the lives of approximately 190 million women workers in global supply chains. Employees needed to access critical information on health, financial resilience, and tools for building harmonious relationships and handling stress.
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Facing The Poverty Tsunami: How Business Can Support the Lives, Livelihoods and Access to Learning of the Most Vulnerable People and Communities

COVID, conflict and climate change are among a confluence of challenges driving a tsunami of poverty that is already crashing into the lives of vulnerable people and communities around the world. This article explores these trends and the role businesses can and should play.
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GBV and Domestic Violence in Ukraine and How Businesses Can Help

Businesses can play a significant role combating domestic and gender-based violence, including in the context of armed conflict. The war in Ukraine has led to a catastrophic increase in violence against women in uncontrolled territories. The security of internally displaced persons and refugees is also a concern. This article provides insights into initiatives to combat domestic and gender-based violence in Ukraine, the situation on the ground, and how businesses in Ukraine are finding workable solutions to protect their employees from violence.
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Women at the Center of Africa’s Post-Pandemic Recovery 

Women will play a central role in reviving African economies after Covid-19… Tribune by Julienne Lusenge, co-founder and president of Women’s Solidarity for Inclusive Peace and Development, and Natalie Africa, Senior Advisor to the Africa Director of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
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Business and the Ukraine Crisis: Supporting Women and the Most Vulnerable

While much has been done by the business community in response to the Ukraine crisis, much more is needed, and this must start with a better understanding of the needs of the most vulnerable people and communities. This article provides insights into understanding who the vulnerable are and advice on actions that businesses can take, along with useful links.
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Gender Equity: The Foundation for a Resilient Future

Join us for free at our virtual Gender Summit 2022, on 8 and 9 March, to explore the issues of gender equity and resilience, and the importance of women’s leadership in driving change. The event coincides with International Women’s Day and its theme of “gender equality today for a sustainable tomorrow”. Access practical insights, the latest thinking and inspiring examples from experts and practitioners, and connect with like-minded people to explore opportunities for collaboration.
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Nudges & Bridges: making better decisions & finding common ground

In this first episode of Nudges & Bridges: Making Better Decisions & Finding Common Ground, Eveleigh Professor of Business Ethics, Kelley School of Business at Indiana University, suggests that each of us could find common ground with those we may disagree with on social and political issues. How do we do that? Read on to learn more.
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What If we created our own celebration days?

François Taddei, from his upcoming book Game-Changing: Together Solving the Problems of the 21st Century, writes about the importance of celebration to foster collaboration and co-creation among engaged actors, including the business community, to transform education for the future of the planet.
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Seeking entrepreneurs and SMEs that are innovating in the care economy

Business Fights Poverty is excited to be part of a new programme to transform the care economy and is seeking SMEs and entrepreneurs across our network to be matched with investors. Sign up by 10th December. Read on for more information!
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Powering the just transition – The biggest opportunity for inclusive business

Markus Dietrich, celebrates his 10th anniversary in the inclusive business community and reflects on the journey of the once ‘new paradigm for doing business’. How far did we get since then? Did IB end up on the dust heap of history as another management concept that was overtaken by another school of thought? Looking at the management literature one could almost think so, as now the net-positive company is being proclaimed as the new kid on the block. But IB has proven very resilient; there is even a fair share of IB in the net-positive company.
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What can a dog park teach us about bridging great societal divides?

In this video, actually filmed in a dog park, Tim shows how dogs can turn other dogs – strangers and members of other packs – into friends. Then making the dog park into a metaphor, he shows how we humans can go beyond our own identities and packs to find common ground with those we may disagree with on social and political grounds.
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A Great Reset On Disability

Poor treatement and downright discrimination against disabled people in the workplace are things we don’t ever want to go back to. David Grayson argues that businesses and society need a “reset” on disability, and hopes to see the sustainability-related business led networks becoming much more proactive in making the links between disability and the achievement of the SDGs.
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Enlightened climate policy for Africa

As the world convenes in Glasgow for the 26th United Nations Climate Change Conference of Parties (COP26), it is time to recognize Africa’s role in averting a climate disaster without compromising the continent’s growth and poverty reduction.
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Carbon accounting madness makes a mockery of the UK’s net zero plans

The race to go ‘net zero’ is top of the agenda at this month’s COP26 in Glasgow. The latest United Nations’ Climate Change Conference is widely thought to be our last chance to get countries to commit to necessary cuts in greenhouse gases (GHG) and avert unstoppable climate collapse. But government targets to make the UK carbon neutral by 2050 could be worthless if current carbon accounting systems aren’t radically reformed.
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This COP26 it’s time to listen to farmers and workers

The eyes of the business world have been trained on Glasgow for COP26. The environment is increasingly topping the agenda for boardrooms at the biggest companies. At the UN’s recent biodiversity conference in China the chief executives of Unilever and H&M were among those calling on governments to take significant action to reverse the collapse of our ecosystems.
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The role of social procurement for inclusive value chains

By definition, social procurement leverages the purchasing power of companies to achieve broader social impact objectives. It goes beyond responsible sourcing which integrates and manages ESG criteria into the procurement process. Instead, it focuses on buying goods, materials, or services from social businesses with the explicit intention to create net positive impact.
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Putting People at the Heart of Climate Action: 3 Reasons Business Must Care

We’re just over two weeks away from a critical milestone in the fight against climate change. The UK will host the COP26 climate conference, bringing together countries to enhance their commitments for the first time since they made them under the Paris Agreement in 2015. Zahid Torres-Rahman shares 3 reasons why business must put people at the heart of climate justice.
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Why does so little funding go to women entrepreneurs, and what can we do about it?

According to the World Economic Forum, it will take over 250 years to achieve gender economic parity. Currently, only two per cent of venture capital goes to women-led startups. While investing in women entrepreneurs alone cannot fix the problem, it could help bridge this gap and reap benefits for men and women alike. What can bankers, entrepreneurs, and support organisations do to shift more capital to women entrepreneurs?
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Equality, justice, and investment in nature must be at the heart of the corporate climate response

With the release of the latest report from the IPCC on climate science, the planetary emergency sirens are sounding louder than ever. And as the world awaits the outcome of crucial international climate talks in Glasgow, momentum is building for ambitious global action that delivers net-zero greenhouse gas emissions no later than 2050.
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