Addressing Vaccination Inequity Among Marginalised Groups in Europe

Vaccine equity. Vaccination of patient.

Listen to this article (audio generated using AI assistance): This year’s Immunisation Week, the annual campaign to expand vaccination globally, is rightly focussed on, “The Big Catch Up,” – getting countries back on track with routine vaccinations after pandemic-related disruptions. According to the CDC, outbreaks of vaccine-preventable diseases like measles, polio, and diphtheria are rising […]

Five Years On, Have Companies Improved on Respecting Human Rights?

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The World Benchmarking Alliance (WBA) recently published its its 5th iteration of the Corporate Human Rights Benchmark (CHRB). The 2022 benchmark scores and ranks 127 of the largest and most influential companies in the food and agricultural products, ICT manufacturing and automotive manufacturing sectors on their human rights commitments, due diligence processes, grievance mechanisms, supply […]

Empowering Foundations of Learning Pave the Way for Gender Equity

Achieving gender equity requires a multi-faceted approach. As the global community searches for solutions to inequalities, a strong focus must be on the foundation of empowerment – education and the ability to learn. This International Women’s Day (IWD), Wednesday 8th of March, the world celebrates the achievements and contributions of inspiring girls and women across […]

How Storytelling Can Paint a Full Picture of Impact for Businesses 

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Across the globe, inclusive businesses are making differences in the lives of the world’s most vulnerable – from empowering rural women to improving access to education. However, plain numbers struggle to capture the breadth of important work they are doing to investors, potential partners, and the people they aim to help the most. To bring […]

Stronger Together: How the Food Fortification Ecosystem Can Fight Malnutrition

Stronger together – how the food fortification ecosystem can fight malnutrition by supporting small and medium-sized millers What do the World Food Programme, BASF, Royal DSM and Nigeria Flour Mills have in common? They all recognize the key role of small-scale and medium-sized millers to bring food fortification to scale, as part of national strategies […]

NEW REPORT – The Case for Living Wages

Work is often lauded as the most important route out of poverty. There is little doubt that work can and even should provide a way out, but for hundreds of millions of people, this is simply not the case. In the lower-income countries that make the biggest contributions to global supply chains, large numbers of […]

No more promises without plans. It’s time for a new corporate climate leadership.

Over the past 12 months, I have struggled with two competing thoughts: First, in almost 25 years working on climate change, I can honestly say that the emergence of corporate climate leadership is one of the more optimistic trends I have encountered. Ten years ago most companies were either hostile to or agnostic about emissions […]

Are you a social innovator working to increase access to healthcare? Apply now!

Health expenditures push an estimated 100 million people worldwide into extreme poverty every year; Only 290 million people worldwide (less than 4% of the world population) have access to Universal Health Coverage; According to the World Health Organization, the number of individuals that suffered financial hardship from healthcare payments increased in the last decade; The […]

How businesses and young people can collaborate to be a force for development

Clean water and sanitation for all is a critical Sustainable Development Goal which has only become more significant in the global pandemic. In rural Tanzania the spread of water-borne diseases affects everyday lives, so when Raleigh International young people teamed up with Reckitt employees, they found an impactful way to combat this problem through designing […]

Embracing the ‘next edge’ of business ambition beyond net zero

As we digest the agreements reached at COP26, many of us will wonder ‘what’s next?’. Lots of delivery and accountability of course. But also, we’ll need a bigger stretch, not just to avoid catastrophe but to truly build a more hopeful future. And this, in turn, will require a different way of working, living, and […]

Refocus, retool, reset: insights from a COVID-19 rapid response & recovery programme

MSMEs, especially those led by women, youth, ethnic minorities, and migrants, were significantly impacted by COVID-19 with 70-80% facing major financial difficulties[1]. To support entrepreneurs to survive and even thrive in the pandemic, YBI members and delivery partners provided in-depth services through a rapid response & recovery programme to 145,738 entrepreneurs- with 77% reporting improved […]

How to tackle the impacts of climate change on equity

Benedicte Faivre-Tavignot is Associate Professor of Strategy and the Executive Director of the Society and Organisation Institute at HEC Paris. In her research she focuses on reverse innovation and on the processes through which Social Businesses and Base of the Pyramid business models can be a lever for innovation and a lever for strategic renewal […]

How to ensure communities gain the full benefit of a sustainable economy

Georgina Njeru is a Millennium Fellow at the Millennium Campus Network. She leads a project that teaches people on the impact they can have, as individuals, on the environment and climate change. Also, her project aims to customise the ways that communities can care for their environment, accommodating their culture and beliefs to make their […]

How to build more resilient business models

James Payne is Associate Director for Transformational Strategies at Forum for the Future, a leading international sustainability non-profit. For more than 25 years Forum for the Future has been working in partnership with business, governments and civil society to accelerate the transformation towards a sustainable future. In this video, James explains what it means for […]