Women

The Tide is Coming in for Indonesia’s Seaweed

Do you know much about seaweed farming? No? Well, neither did we until our interest was piqued by a story in The Jakarta Post about a development project in Indonesia.
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Get Involved: New Challenges on Gender-Based Violence, SME Ecosystems, Transformational Partnerships and Purpose

Business Fights Poverty’s Challenge approach brings together people from across our community and beyond who are passionate about tackling specific societal issues. We’re launching four new Challenges focused on Gender-Based Violence, SME Ecosystems, Transformational Partnerships and Purpose. Learn more and get involved!
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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
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Re-Imagining the Gender Balance for Female Cotton Farmers

Through our purpose to ‘Re-imagine Global Agriculture’, Olam aims to address the many challenges involved in meeting the needs of a growing global population, while achieving positive impact for farming communities, our planet and shareholders.
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Businesses Gain by Taking Steps in the Workplace to Tackle Domestic Violence

The impact of domestic violence extends beyond the homes of those affected. IFC’s Rana Karadsheh-Haddad, Regional Industry Director, Manufacturing, Agribusiness and Services, Asia and Pacific, explores the toll of domestic violence in the Pacific and how some pioneering companies took measures to address domestic violence in the workplace, benefitting both their employees and their business.
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CARE and Diageo: Tackling Violence and Harassment at Work

When CARE approached Diageo about assessing the extent to which they were tackling violence and harassment across their whole business, they agreed. How, they wanted to know, can business move from risk mitigation to creating a safe and dignified environment where employees are proud to come to work?
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Making Supply Chains Work for Women

BSR has launched a new video that sets out why and how companies should work to drive gender equality in global supply chains, with a focus on how companies can act, enable and influence change.
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For Women in India Small Loans Have a Big Impact

Microloans help millions of families start and expand businesses, purchase essentials, and support their children’s education. Over the past decade, IFC has helped create a market for microfinance in India by investing $564 million in equity and debt.
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How Businesses Can Do Better for Girls

Due to their adaptability and responsiveness to changing market conditions, businesses can play an important role in empowering girls. But to do that, they need to engage girls directly in the design of their products and services.
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Businesses and Sustainability Standards Empowering Women in Supply Chains

Eleanor Radford of ISEAL, reflects on the women’s equity and inclusive business session at the recent Business Fights Poverty Oxford Conference. How do we can create change throughout the value chain? From getting a better representation of women on executive boards, to empowering women in the workplace.
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Tamsin Jones

This week Katie Hyson, Director of Thought Leadership meets Tamsin Jones. In this interview Tamsin examines why gender equality throughout the workplace is important, presenting her new joint venture, ‘The Boardroom Africa’ as one solution to the low female representation on boards, as well as sharing her advice on how we can create equality.
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Sizakele Marutlulle

This week Katie Hyson, Director of Thought Leadership at Business Fights Poverty interviews Sizakele Marutlulle, Founder and CEO of communications strategy company: Marutlulle +CO. Sizakele talks to us in anticipation of her keynote speaker role during the Business Fights Poverty flagship 2018 Oxford conference.
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Henriette Kolb

An Interview with Henriette Kolb, Head of the Gender Secretariat at the International Finance Corporation. Henriette takes listeners on a journey through the challenges of addressing gender inequality, before explaining why the IFC is focusing on balancing the roles of carers, creating access to finance for female entrepreneurs and understanding how women can get ahead in the sharing economy.
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CARE Examine the Importance of Gender Equity in Business

Gender equality is high on the corporate agenda, but behind the hashtags, the empowering t-shirts and glossy photographs, are we really creating change and tackling the barriers to gender equity and inclusive business? CARE, who will host the Women’s Equity and Inclusivity Zone at Business Fights Poverty Oxford, examine the importance of gender equity in business.
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The Business Case for a Gender Audit 


The IFC has developed a gender toolkit for companies in the infrastructure and natural resources sectors, offering a roadmap to conducting such an audit and designing a customized action plan to address obstacles to equality and inclusion in the workplace, across the supply chain, and in the communities in which they operate or invest.
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From Gender Lens to Inclusive Impact Investment

By defining and disaggregating the ways investments empower women, beyond the very rudimentary criteria of solely investing in women, gender lens investing is helping to create frameworks and tools for the industry as a whole.
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Why We Must Go Beyond Economics In The Discourse on Empowerment of Women

With increasingly more women’s economic empowerment initiatives being announced Jemimah Njuki asks if these kinds of initiatives are enough to transform the lives of women, their families and communities? Exploring why we must go beyond economics in the discourse on empowerment of women.
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Five Years after Rana Plaza, We Still Must Do More to Empower Women Workers in Bangladesh

Five years ago the Rana Plaza tragedy turned the eyes of the world to Bangladesh and sparked a conversation about compliance, building safety and the empowerent of workers. BSR’s HERproject share four things they believe that brands, suppliers, and the development community can do to further the empowerment of women workers.
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Helping Refugees Move From Crisis To Resilience and Self-Reliance

Introducing our new Challenge on Business and Refugees with support from Pearson and in partnership with UNHCR, Mercy Corps, Business Call to Action, Innovest Advisory and Thomson Reuters Foundation. The Challenge aims to strengthen the foundation for effective partnerships to improve refugees’ wellbeing and educational and livelihood opportunities so refugees can thrive, not just survive.
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The Impact of a Microfinance on Preventing Intimate Partner Violence

Indashyikirwa, meaning ‘agents for change’, is a program that seeks to prevent intimate partner violence (IPV) across Rwanda, and is being implemented by CARE Rwanda, Rwanda Women’s Network (RWN) and Rwanda Men’s Resource Center (RWAMREC). Here Erin Stern shares some key learnings, processes and impacts from the programme.
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