SDGs

The 6 Market Gaps the Finance Sector Must Address to Help Meet the SDGs

The need for more collective action to address the world’s most urgent challenges couldn’t be clearer. TPI and C-Change argue no sector has a more important role to play than finance in determining whether or not we are successful in addressing these challenges.
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Toilets, Not Poverty Traps

Who will step up to address the very real liquidity gap that stands between poor households and their first toilet in Cambodia? iDE believes that local, friendly latrine businesses are best placed to provide non-interest bearing payment facilitation to households in their community. Read how iDE is seeking to unlock this sanitation supply-led financing at a larger scale.
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Personal Actions that Everyone Can Take to Support the SDGs

New ‘Good Life Goals’ embrace individual action in a fun, easily-understood, and accessible way and offer organisations a charming way of engaging staff, partners and customers in the 17 SDGs.
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5 Ways to Make Your Organisation a Great Sustainability Partner

Delivering the SDGs will require partnerships across business, governments, donors, the UN and NGOs at a scale that dwarfs current efforts of collaboration. TPI and C-Change explore how to design and build the new infrastructure that can systematically engage business and deliver the unprecedented level of collaboration required to achieve the SDGs.
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VIDEOS: Business Fights Poverty NYC 2018

Watch the videos of Business Fights Poverty NYC 2018. The event brought together 200 professionals from business and the development community during UN General Assembly Week to explore the theme of rethinking collaboration for the Sustainable Development Goals. The event was supported by Barclays and GSK.
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NEW REPORTS: Intrapreneurship, Partnerships, Refugees and Education

Business Fights Poverty has just released a series of reports that mark the culmination of co-creation processes with a range of partners and network members. Topics include Social Intrapreneurship, Transformational Partnerships, Supporting Refugees and Education for Sustainable Development. Download them for free.
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The Role of Business in Education for Sustainable Development

Our new report demonstrates how business can help people gain the skills and knowledge to advance sustainable development, navigate the future of work and create a more prosperous society. The project was led by Business Fights Poverty, Pearson, Arizona State University and PRME, an initiative of the United Nations Global Compact.
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Building Scalable and Self-Sustaining Safe Water Enterprises

Jon Shepard shares why he see grounds for optimism in reaching the UN Sustainable Development Goal of equitable access to safe, affordable drinking water for all by 2030. In particular the growing number of impact entrepreneurs who are innovating new models for the scalable and sustainable provision of safe water in underserved communities.
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The Global Sanitation Crisis Presents Lucrative Business Opportunities

At the recent World Water Week 2018, the Toilet Board Coalition explored the commercial and social impact opportunities for businesses willing to engage in the sanitation crisis. What exactly is the sanitation economy? And what role can business and government play?
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Sue Garrard

Business Fights Poverty’s Katie Hyson, Director of Thought Leadership catches up with Sue Garrard, former Unilever SVP for Sustainable Business Development and Communications. During the interview Sue explores the development and convergence of PR, employee engagement and societal impact within business; before sharing her career advice, providing insight into what motivates and inspires her.
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8 SSIR Articles on Businesses Pursuing a Social Mission

Stanford Social Innovation Review curate eight articles from their archives- specifically for Business Fights Poverty—that offer insight into how companies can successfully orient themselves around purpose, both internally and externally, to reap its many rewards.
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How to Set up Global Partnerships for Impact and Success

Katie Hyson, Director of Thought Leadership at Business Fights Poverty caught up with the team from Novo Nordisk to talk about their new partnership, which aims to help ensure access to diabetes medicines and healthcare, is accessible to all.
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Galvanizing Businesses to Generate Positive Social Impact Through Impact Sourcing

The Impact Sourcing Challenge is the first of its kind to specifically focus on escalating impact sourcing as a way to increase employment and career development opportunities for disadvantaged workers.
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Watch the Videos: Business Fights Poverty Oxford 2018

On 18 July, over 300 individuals from business, civil society and government came together for Business Fights Poverty Oxford 2018 to explore the themes of business, purpose and collaboration. Watch the videos of the plenary sessions.
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Business and the SDGs – WBCSD’s key takeaways from the 2018 High-level Political Forum on Sustainable Development

WBCSD share key takeaways from the recent 2018 High-level Political Forum on Sustainable Development, the UN’s central platform for follow-up and review of the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
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Why, and How, Business Needs to Change its Approach to the SDGs

Shift, in collaboration with WBCSD, has launched a first-of-its-kind compendium of 15 real-life case studies that illustrate what various individual companies and collaborative initiatives are doing to put business respect for human rights into practice and how those efforts go beyond “doing no harm” to show great promise in making powerful and positive contributions to the SDGs.
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Emeritus Professor David Grayson, CBE

Katie Hyson, Director of Thought Leadership at Business Fights Poverty interviews Emeritus Professor David Grayson, CBE
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Daniella Foster

The tourism industry already accounts for 10.4% GDP and employs 313 million people; find out why Hilton is on a social and environmental mission to ensure its future. Katie Hyson, Director of Thought Leadership at Business Fights Poverty interviews Daniella Foster, Senior Director of Global Corporate Responsibility at Hilton Hotels and Resorts
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Two Weeks to Go and Acumen Explore Investing in Impact

Business Fights Poverty’s flagship Oxford conference takes place on 18th July, with just two weeks to go we are pleased to introduce Acumen as our partners leading the Impact Investing zone.
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Dominic White

Marking the launch of Measuring Up, the UK Stakeholders for Sustainable Development’s (UKSSD) first stock take of progress across the UK against all the 169 targets identified in the SDGs, Business Fights Poverty’s Katie Hyson caught up with Dominic White, co-founder and co-chair of UK-SSD, as well as Head of International Development Policy at WWF-UK.
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