SDGs

Mobile money with Ashley Onyango

Ashley explores the positive impacts of mobile money and examines the challenges that remain.
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Sustainability Strategy & Innovation with Mario Elias Gonzalez

Sustainability Strategy & Innovation with Mario Elias Gonzalez. Leading thinking to drive responsible and inclusive business deep into the core of companies.
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With their own businesses and as workers, Egypt’s women can be winners

The Rabeha programme, run jointly by the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) and UN Women, aims to significantly boost women’s economic empowerment in Egypt by mid-2024.
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Ayan Said, Voicing Voices

Ayan provides practical tools and tips to help us all, and particularly business decision makers to create the spaces for better communication.
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A transformative journey: Kasha’s mission to provide equal health access to all women

Leading East African FemTech company, Kasha, share nine key lessons learnt from scaling their business with support from TRANSFORM. TRANSFORM is a joint initiative between Unilever, the UK’s Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO) and EY that provides grant funding and business consultancy to impact enterprises in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia.
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Sabina Alkire, University of Oxford

This conversation goes deep into examining poverty. Sabina explains how measuring multidimensional poverty can incorporate different dimensions, or aspects of poverty, to create measures tailored to each context. With colleagues at the University of Oxford this has been applied and implemented empirically to produce a Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI).
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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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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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The pandemic, supply chains and gendered impacts

Rita Mendez, impacts senior coordinator at ISEAL, shares the findings of a recent paper on gender and gender risks across the supply chain.
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Sustainability systems in the next decade of action on business and human rights

Vidya Rangan, impacts and evidence senior manager at ISEAL, discusses the role of sustainability systems in providing an enabling environment for the systemic change needed to holistically progress on human rights.
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Addressing inequality is essential to building a sustainable food system

Sheila Senathirajah, innovations senior manager at ISEAL, discusses the importance of equality in building inclusive and fair value chains for producers.
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Active Adaptation – making progress in an uncertain world

A new report from Charities Aid Foundation and Forster Communications is urging sustainability leaders to adopt a new mindset of ‘active adaptation’ to make progress in this world of uncertainty. Building on the original ‘Bold Thinking, Brave Action’ report published in July 2020, the research highlights new enablers and inhibitors that are impacting organisational decision-making.
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Sharath Jeevan

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How to use the World Benchmarking Alliances’ social and just transition indicators

In this session, Charlotte and Sofía shared the goals of WBA’s Climate and Energy Benchmark and how companies can use WBA’s indicators to increase their ambition and action on addressing their social and climate impacts.
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How to harness partnerships to drive system-level change

Laís Higashi is President of Litre of Light Brazil and One Young World Ambassador. Litre of Light Brazil is a social organisation that provides solar solutions to low income communities without adequate access to electricity. In this session, Laís explained why partnerships are critical for the initiative she leads and shared the practical challenges of developing system-level change.
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COVID-19 recovery: Why childcare must be part of the plan

As countries struggle to address the economic and health costs of COVID-19, finding solutions for mothers in informal employent will be important. Governments, donors, and businesses will need to invest in care — and will need to know what works and what doesn’t in reaching the most vulnerable families.
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How to implement effective grievance mechanisms

Monica Romis is Private Sector Human Rights Advisor at Oxfam Business Advisory Service. In this session, Monica speaks about grievance mechanisms, and references good practices that can help companies move in the right direction.
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How businesses can – and must – step up to create just and regenerative food systems

As the global Food Systems Summit arrives, Lesley Mitchell, international non-profit Forum for the Future’s Associate Director for Sustainable Nutrition, explores what it will take to transform how we produce and consume food – and the role of business in stepping up to the challenge.
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Six Actions Businesses Can Take To Reduce Negative Impacts of Purchasing Practices on Human Rights

As Human Rights Due Diligence becomes increasingly important for businesses, Oxfam’s Private Sector Human Rights Advisor, Monica Romis looks at how purchasing practices have direct implications on the human rights of workers, sharing some of Oxfam’s research and highlighting concrete steps business can take for a more equitable sharing of rights and responsibilities through the supply chain.
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Living Wages: Lessons Learned from a Decade of Oxfam’s Work

Rachel Wilshaw, Workers’ Rights Senior Manager and Monica Romis, Private Sector Human Rights Advisor, reflect on a decade of working with businesses on living wage – with practical lessons from work done with companies that have partnered with Oxfam and made changes that have a positive impact on workers.
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