Five Lessons from Ten Corporate-Charity Partnerships

In one of my series of articles about progress on eliminating world poverty in the last 25 years, I talked about why it’s not just

Woman smiling, Selling Banana's on a stall

New Research Reveals the Benefits and Costs of Gender-Smart Technical Assistance to SMEs and Investors

Gender lens investing includes three key entry points for investors: (1) providing capital to women-led/founded companies and/or gender-forward businesses; (2) applying a gender lens to

Women on a blue background with sewing machine

Why Investing in Informal Women Workers is Critical to Maintaining Resilient Supply Chains

Over 60% of the world’s employed population make their living through informal work, with no access to formal contracts or protection. Women make up a

Walking for Climate Justice: Community Voices Share their Desperation and Sparks of Hope.

“My own state of mind synthesises these two feelings and transcends them: my mind is pessimistic, but my will is optimistic. Whatever the situation, I

Shadab Khan in workshop arms crossed

Why the Burden on Business Women to ‘do it all’ Must Stop

Glorifying multi-tasking by women entrepreneurs must stop. Women the world over are often celebrated for juggling their business with childcare and household responsibilities. The assumption

Affected families carry emergency-supplies over a makeshift-bridge-after-the mudslide in Freetown Sierra Leone

The Unrecognised Intersections Between Climate Change and Modern Slavery

Modern slavery is on the rise. New global estimates of modern slavery published in September 2022 found that almost 50 million people are in modern slavery, a