Women

What Role Can Business Play To Tackle Gender-Based Violence? Experts Share Practical Learnings and Experiences

As part of our current Business Fights Poverty Challenge, What Role Can Business Play to Tackle Gender Based Violence, we hosted an Online Discussion. This brought together a panel of experts from around the world to share their insights and experience.
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WE SOLVE: A Unique Partnership Creates Jobs for Women and Breaks the Barriers to Clean Energy

The Arusha region is home to Tanzania’s nomadic Maasai and other communities who farm and herd in the plains around Mount Meru. Communities here face life without light as soon as the sun sets, meaning that kids can’t play in the streets or study and families are often dependent on expensive and toxic fuel-powered resources to do their daily chores. It is also here that women are seeking a livelihood so they can take care of their families.
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We Learned Simple Ways to Improve the Local Environment and Our Income

In the Nawa region in Côte d’Ivoire, Mondelēz International’s Cocoa Life partners with Impactum and CARE International to engage women and address climate change and deforestation through a Green Entrepreneurship pilot project. They are helping women learn the knowledge and skills needed to create a sustainable future for cocoa farming communities, and generate income for themselves and their communities. ​
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Helping Women Thrive: Give a Loan, Create a Community Role Model

Worldwide, women have much less economic opportunity, security, and freedom, but microloans help women obtain capital they otherwise would not have access to. This support allows women to start their own businesses, go to school and invest in the health of their communities and families, creating a ripple effect in which entire societies thrive and women are regarded as role models and leaders.​
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Shabnam Hameed

During this week’s spotlight interview you will hear from one of the globe’s most experienced thought leaders in developing, implementing and evaluating workplace responses to domestic, family and sexual violence – Shabnam Hameed.
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What Role Can Business Play in Addressing Issues Around Gender-Based Violence?

Join us for a live written online discussion with a panel of experts to explore the role business can play in addressing issues around gender-based violence. This live online written discussion will take place on Thursday 28 March, 15.00 GMT / 11.00 EDT
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Why Addressing Gender-Based Violence is an Imperative for Business Today

Why is addressing gender-based violence (GBV) a key issue, which should be on the business agenda? Business Fights Poverty’s Challenge Author, Chiara Condi, talks about why eliminating GBV is essential to reaching all other UN Sustainable Development Goals.
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CEO Agenda 2019: An Ambitious Vision Lacking Commitment or Detail

The CEO Agenda 2019 was launched at DAVOS by a number of leading fashion brands, with support from Global Fashion Agenda. CARE share where they see important gaps in this agenda and limitations to what it can achieve in its current form.
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Celebrating IWD 2019: M&S Joins Better Than Cash Alliance

M&S has made a bold commitment to helping its supply chain convert from cash to digital wage payments, but they recognise they can’t do this alone. In this article, M&S celebrates what can be achieved through collaboration with partnerships, other businesses and NGOs.
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What She Makes: The True Price of Fashion

The Australian fashion industry was worth almost $23.5 billion in 2018 — a staggering amount. But a system of entrenched exploitation and the widespread payment of poverty wages is denying the workers making our clothes the opportunity for decent lives.
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Cash Transfers and Gender Equality

This year’s Commission on the Status of Women focused on social protection, access to public services and sustainable infrastructure. IDS researchers attending the event at the United Nations in New York sought to highlight the evidence on what works in each of these areas in terms of achieving gender equality and empowering women and girls.
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Mind the Gap & Fix the Mix: Gender Equality in Private Equity

In March this year, the IFC launched a new report, “Moving Toward Gender Balance in Private Equity and Venture Capital”, which explores the link between financial returns and gender diversity; the lack of women in the industry; and steps needed to achieve gender balance.​
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Gender Equity and Social Inclusion Needs to Start at Home

Before promoting women’s empowerment abroad, NGOs should ensure that their own staff and operations reflect gender development goals through awareness training, affirmative hiring practices, and demonstrated leadership as well as implementing practical solutions in the workplace like childcare assistance, flexible schedules, and remote work options.
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Avon, Diageo and M&S Join Call for an International Treaty to Protect Women at Work

Ending violence and harassment in the workplace: on International Women’s Day, leading companies join CARE in calling for an international treaty to protect women at work.
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Women are Power

“What do you dream about today?” A poignant question on International Women’s Day from Chiara Condi, Gender Diversity Expert, Advocate, Founder of Led By Her and Challenge Author for Business Fights Poverty’s latest Challenge: ‘What Role Can Business Play in Tackling Gender-Based Violence?” In her piece, Chiara shares her opinion on how can we accelerate towards ‘the extinction of inequality’.
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Businesses for impact in the spotlight: 4 insights into transforming access to financial services in Nepal ​ ​

​How can technology be used to create inclusive financial infrastructure for women in remote communities? The Palladium-run SPRING Accelerator supports entrepreneurs who can bring products and services to adolescent girls. Read an interview with Accelerator participant, Amit Agrawal, CEO of Janaki Technology Pvt. Ltd., about his journey towards increasing financial inclusion for women in Nepal.
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Highlighting the Plight of Woman Agricultural Workers in Coffee Production #BalanceforBetter International Women’s Day 2019

As we celebrate International Women’s Day 2019 and highlight the need to build a gender-balanced world, it is worth reflecting on the women working on coffee farms globally. Their work often goes unnoticed and their voices too often go unheard but there are also success stories.
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A Transparent Cuppa – Mapping Our Tea and Coffee Supply Chains

As we enter the second week of Fairtrade Fortnight, it’s a time to celebrate our Fairtrade products and reflect on our hard work building strong relationships with our producers and working on programmes such as empowering women in the supply chain.​
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Inside IKEA: A Furniture Store on a Social Mission

The big blue and yellow storefront is unmistakable in more than 50 countries. While distinctly Swedish, IKEA has a long and rich history in Switzerland. Now it is trying to rally other companies in the country around gender equality. Will they listen?
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Moving Towards Gender Equality: A New Index Looks at Legal Reforms to Help Women’s Economic Inclusion

Do you think the world is becoming more equal for women at work? The recently published Women, Business and the Law 2019: A Decade of Reform gives us some insight. While achieving gender equality requires a broad range of efforts over time, the study focuses on the law as an important first step to providing an objective measure of how specific regulations affect women’s incentives to participate in economic activity.
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