Insights

In finance we trust

The recently released 2021 Edelman Trust Barometer startlingly reveals that business is the only trusted institution. And yet, the financial sector remains the lowest trusted sector for the tenth year in a row. Pratik Desai provides an insight into WBA’s recent report, which lays the groundwork for a new benchmark to assess financial institutions on their performance towards the SDGs.
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Business Fights Poverty Fortnightly Round-Up

In the run-up to our Rebuild Better Virtual Summit on Gender, Business Fights Poverty’s online content has explored what business can do to support women’s leadership; the transition to a green economy; and how we can create resilient food systems that enable small-scale farmers to flourish.
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A just transition is undermined by a disconnect between human rights and climate issues

In this crossover between WBA’s Corporate Human Rights Benchmark (CHRB) and the Automotive Benchmark’s Performance Update for 2020, the research raised a startling outcome: almost no correlation could be found between a company’s relative performance on either benchmark, suggesting an alarming disconnect between actions on climate and human rights issues.
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Why we need to radically reimagine leadership to achieve gender equality.

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What are Green Skills?

Simply put, green skills are the knowledge, abilities, values and attitudes needed to live in, develop and support a sustainable and resource-efficient society.
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Uncovering Vulnerability Inspires Authentic Leadership

Executive coaching is typically a privilege offered only to the most valued business professionals. After 20 years of working her way into the C-suite, Jane Finette’s employer offered her that opportunity. The experience fundamentally changed the way Finette saw the world and the role she would play as a leader.
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Reflections on the 2021 Edelman Trust Barometer: How business can play a key role in restoring trust

Earlier this month, the 2021 Edelman Trust Barometer reported that the pandemic has caused a crisis of public trust in our institutions. Its findings suggest a new mandate for business, which is now the most trusted institution, to play a key role in restoring trust and responding to social challenges.  
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Five mantras for effective COVID-19 vaccine communication

As scientists move closer to an effective COVID-19 vaccine, the global health community is preparing for how it will build trust in its safety and efficacy. Well-designed communication can increase healthy behaviours, including vaccine uptake. Here are our top five mantras for how to think about COVID-19 vaccine communication.
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Business Fights Poverty Fortnightly Round Up

In an insights-packed fortnight, Business Fights Poverty has released a new report; asked ‘Where Now?’ in our Virtual Summit; considered what business can do to increase vaccine uptake; and reflected on what digitisation, data and a crisis of trust in institutions might mean for the future.
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Fast + Fair: Vaccine plans must be inclusive and leave no one behind 

The humanitarian organization CARE has launched its Fast and Fair approach to COVID-19 vaccine distribution in order to reach 60 million people – including 275,000 frontline health workers – as well as 40 million people through advocacy efforts.
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Women in industry – why we need more gender-sensitive statistics

COVID-19 is highlighting how a lack of gender-sensitive statistics threatens women’s health. But a shortage of good, reliable data on women is also holding back progress towards inclusive and sustainable industrial development (ISID), and hampering preparations for the changing employment landscape of the post-COVID economy.
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Enabling greater inclusion of PWD’s amid the pandemic

Covid-19 has disrupted lives all across the world, limiting our daily routines and mundane activities. For people living with disabilities (PWDs), the pandemic has multiplied their challenges and raised their vulnerability to existing conditions.
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We can’t ignore mindsets if we want to reset capitalism

Does the disruption created by Covid-19 create opportunities to reset capitalism in the long term, or will inertia prevail? That is the key New Year question as we look beyond the Covid crisis to possible future pathways. Sally Uren and Caroline Ashley of Forum for the Future, argue that what happens next in capitalism could be down to hearts and minds, not the market
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Business Fights Poverty Fortnightly Roundup

The New Year presents an opportunity to set new resolutions and examine our intentions for the future. This year, the continuing COVID-19 pandemic and the political unrest in the USA has made these questions more pressing than usual. What is the future that we want, and what is our role, both professionally and personally, in achieving it?
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Business Mentorship for LGBTQ Refugees

LGBTQ refugees and asylum seekers around the world are fleeing their home countries due to life-threatening persecution and violence. To help LGBTQ refugees integrate into their new communities and prepare for the job market, global businesses collectively committed to provide mentorship opportunities to approximately 1,250 LGBTQ refugees in North America over the next three years.
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Kicking our addiction to plastics

The pandemic has seen plastic waste skyrocket, while corporates continue to pump out single-use plastic packaging that’s found dumped all around the world. But a new inter-disciplinary research network at the University of Birmingham is looking to tackle the problem with infinitely recyclable polymers and collaborative projects with business.
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Top 10 Articles of 2020

We have been humbled by the willingness of people to step forward and openly share their insights and knowledge in an effort to mitigate the impacts of COVID-19 on the most vulnerable people and communities. Here are the top 10 articles from this year.
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Business Fights Poverty Fortnightly Round Up

In the last roundup of the year, we continue our discussions on gender equality and building resilient and sustainable food systems, and look forward to our first event on 21 January 2021 – Rebuild Better: Where Now? 
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Corruption, Covid-19 and Inequality: the vital role of companies in preventing this deadly mixture

With over 1.4 million deaths, COVID-19 has disrupted health systems all over the world and highlighted profound inequality. Corruption during the pandemic has widened the gap between the haves and have-nots. Alongside policy makers, there is much that businesses can do to tackle corruption in the response to COVID-19 and contribute to more equal societies.
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A sustainable equitable food system needs to be nourished at the source

COVID-19 has exposed many of the vulnerabilities in our food system, one of which is just how reliant global supply chains are on people’s well-being at every step of the journey. The small-scale farmers in emerging markets who produce much of the world’s food ingredients, live in countries that face high rates of malnutrition, with many farming households unable to eat healthily themselves.
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