Women

Andrew Dunnett

What does it take to scale and grow social innovations? And how does a mobile phone company come to be leading the way business can tackle gender-based violence. Andrew Dunnett, the Group Director of SDGs and Sustainable Business at Vodafone and the Director of their Vodafone Foundation explains all.
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CARE and Cargill’s cocoa collaboration: Transforming lives together

Cargill and CARE understand the complexity of the interrelated challenges of community development, nutrition, improved livelihoods and women’s empowerment. Here they share the central lesson that they have both absorbed during their decade-long partnership to provide greater opportunity and improve the wellbeing of people in cocoa-growing communities.
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Data and Tech Acceleration in COVID-19: The Human Rights Impact on Vulnerable Garment Workers

COVID-19 has accelerated the pace at which factories across the world are digitizing. Whilst this can sometimes bring benefits for workers, for example in introducing digital wages, digitization poses a risk to the human rights of vulnerable workers who may lack information, power and skills they need at a time of disruption.
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Business Fights Poverty Rebuild Better Summit: Gender 2021

Access the resources from the Business Fights Poverty Virtual Summit on Gender, in partnership with UN Women and CARE International UK, 9-11 March. How
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Why we need to radically reimagine leadership to achieve gender equality.

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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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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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Diversifying livelihoods for Maasai people: The value of business

Small-scale enterprises are key in helping Maasai communities rise out of poverty. One example of these is beekeeping which brings not only financial benefits but also greater independence and influence for women in a traditionally patriarchal society. With Covid-19 having decimated tourism incomes in southern Kenya and northern Tanzania, diversified livelihoods have never been more important.
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Clearing the Air in Darfur

In Darfur, shared knowledge and improved technology is making cooking at home safer and cheaper. Practical Action teamed up with the Women’s Development Association to educate communities and introduce new Liquid Petroleum Gas (LPG) stoves in El Fasher. Reducing carbon emissions and giving thousands of families clean homes, clean lungs and more money to spend on essentials.
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Rudrani Oza

Meet Rudrani Oza. She is senior manager of farm innovations for CottonConnect. Based in India, Rudrani is a gender expert, with over 16 years of experience in the areas of gender, HIV/AIDS, reproductive health, water & sanitation, and children’s rights.
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I Am Purple: Youth-Focused Gender Empowerment

Every1Mobile shares lessons from ‘I Am Purple’, a youth focused Gender empowerment programme using digital platforms to change harmful social norms around gender equality among young men and women in Nigeria.
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Early Intervention Results in Greater Gains for Girls

If leaders are made, and not always born, then why not begin nurturing women leaders as soon as possible? Envision Lead Grow program intercepts girls at 10 years old. Over the course of eight years, the program nurtures their entrepreneurial skills as they become “girl bosses.”
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Business Fights Poverty Fortnightly Round Up

Over the last fortnight we have focused on gender and equality. Catch up on the highlights of our Gender Summit that took place on 3rd December, and find out what businesses are doing to support women through gender-lens investing, tackling gender-based violence, and women’s economic empowerment. 
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Gender-Based Violence and Tourism

Violence against women, in all its forms, is about the abuse of power as an expression of entitlement that underpins patriarchy. A new book Tourism and Gender-based Violence: Challenging Inequalities draws attention to the ways in which tourism may perpetuate gender inequality in its most exaggerated form.
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SEMINAR VIDEO: WHY SHOULD COMPANIES HAVE PROGRAMMES TO DEVELOP WOMEN LEADERS?

Vasanthi Srinivasan is Professor of Organizational Behavior & Human Resources Management, and Chair of Digital Learning at the Indian Institute of Management Bangalore, talks to us about why companies should have programmes to develop women leaders.
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SEMINAR VIDEO: WHY IS THE PANDEMIC DISPROPORTIONATELY AFFECTING WOMEN ENTREPRENEURS?

Ute Stephan, Professor of Entrepreneurship at King’s Business School, King’s College London, talks to us about the disproportionate impact of the pandemic on women entrepreneurs.
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Jessica Espinoza Trujano

Whether you have been working on the topic of gender investing deeply for years or you are new to the idea. Whether you are an investor, entrepreneur, development finance institution or corporate – take a listen to Jessica Espinoza Trujano.
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Seeing Purple!

December 3rd was the International Day of Persons with Disabilities. When businesses and governments and international development agencies and influencers are thinking about how to progress the SDGs, many of those SDGs will only be fulfilled if there is a far more joined up and proactive approach to involving disabled people.
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How Women Farmers and Entrepreneurs Can Build Resilience during COVID-19

Because of pervasive inequalities, women are vulnerable to the lasting economic impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic. This article highlights some of the ways we can strengthen the resilience of women farmers and entrepreneurs during the crisis and aid their post-pandemic recovery.
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Jocelyn Williams

Jocelyn Williams, Director for Business Development at Every1Mobile, shares 10 years of experience that they have built up implementing programmes in 17 African and Asian countries. Every1Mobile design and implement digital solutions that help people improve their quality of life such as: access to good health advice, encouraging people to create savings and helping young mums get information on motherhood – in countries including Kenya, Nigeria, Zambia, and Uganda.
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