Business Action to Tackle Inequality
Discover fresh perspectives from Visa Inc., the World Bank and WBCSD on combating inequality. Hear how businesses are playing a role in addressing inequality, particularly among displaced populations. Learn about the most effective tactics to drive change, including digital financial inclusion. INTERVIEWEES: Komal Mohindra, Co-lead of the Private Sector for Refugees program, World Bank Katherine Brown, […]
How can companies apply a gender equity lens to address their Scope 3 emissions?
A workshop on how to manage Scope 3 emissions and integrate a gender lens into your decarbonisation plans. Discover what other companies are trialling in this space. As part of the co-creation process, this input helps shape a framework that’s fit for purpose and truly useful. Opening Speakers: Emma Cox, Global Climate Leader, PwC […]
How can companies collaborate to tackle Gender-Based Violence in the workplace? – full video
A workshop on developing workplace policies to address gender-based violence (GBV) across multiple markets. Learn from real-life examples and explore the importance of collaborating with external networks and campaigns. With one in three women experiencing physical or sexual violence during their lifetimes, GBV is a prevalent problem that impacts both employees and businesses. Discover how […]
How can we drive health equity by empowering women? – full video
A thought-provoking Fireside Chat on the critical role of women in vaccination uptake. With rates of preventable diseases falling globally, women are essential in ensuring the health and wellbeing of communities. Learn how greater vaccination uptake by women can lead to greater equality and participation in the labour force. Learn how socio-economic factors such as […]
How can business support female entrepreneurs and improve lives? – full video
A Twitter Space session on how businesses can help champion female-led enterprises. Although women-led businesses are increasing, they still only make up 25-35% of all organisations globally due to challenges such as limited access to financing and the inability to own assets. Examine how global agriculture and other sectors can offer women more opportunities, why […]
How can we support female entrepreneurs, including through financial & technological innovation?
A panel-led workshop on the latest trends and lessons on how to support female entrepreneurs. Our opening speakers ignited creativity, encouraging us to tackle the areas that need addressing. We then dove deeper into small breakout rooms with lead table discussants, exploring key questions on how to unlock the potential of female entrepreneurs. With Business […]
How can you succeed as an entrepreneur and make a difference in your community?
A Fireside Chat with two social impact pioneers on their insights on what it takes to be a successful female entrepreneur. Discover how to get started, build a business, and receive valuable endorsements from other organizations. Get practical advice on how to succeed as an entrepreneur and make a difference in your community. Hear stories […]
Where are the gaps in business leadership for climate justice?
Hosted with Meta While it is primarily the responsibility of governments to drive action on climate change, businesses and their civil society partners also have a leadership role to drive action within their organisations, value chains and wider spheres of influence. Studies show that the large majority of employees and the wider public expect CEOs […]
How can we collaborate better across climate and health to drive equity and resilience?
Hosted with GSK Climate change threatens people’s lives, health and wellbeing. These impacts are not being felt equally, and reflect deep-seated inequities, such as by gender and race. For instance, those communities with poorer access to health care are most impacted by extreme weather events, and are the least able to recover quickly. Meanwhile, global […]
How can we scale youth enterprise solutions for climate justice?
Hosted with the Corporate Responsibility Initiative, Harvard Kennedy School, Change by Degrees and INJAZ Egypt. In this session we explored the practical solutions being developed by inspiring young entrepreneurs that help vulnerable people adapt to and mitigate the risks of climate change. We unpacked the challenges young entrepreneurs face in achieving scale, and how larger […]
What more can we do to place gender equity at the heart of climate action?
Women are disproportionately impacted by climate change, and face greater barriers in accessing the opportunities that come with the green transition. What more can business, in partnership with others, do to support women? How can we ensure that climate actions are gender-smart? In this session we learned from the latest examples of actions being taken […]
How can business drive climate justice through supply chains? – highlight video
Hosted with Meta This session explored how business can support climate justice by building supply chain resilience, especially for those people living in the world’s most vulnerable communities. What are real-life examples of supply chain resilience? What does real-life resilience look like from the supplier’s point of view? What role can technology play to support […]
How can we support new voices for climate justice?
Hosted with Meta Interviewees: Amanda Gardiner, Head, Sustainability Innovation & Engagement, Meta Sophia Li, Journalist and Climate Advocate
How can business partnerships tackle the hidden hunger through access to essential nutrients?
Hosted with Bayer Interviewees: Daniella Foster, Senior Vice President and Global Head of Public Affairs, Science and Sustainability, Consumer Health Division, Bayer Minaud Dacius, Country Director for Haiti, Vitamin Angels
How can business partner to help small retailers thrive? Lessons from the country-level
Hosted with AB InBev Across the value chains of companies like AB InBev, there is a network of millions of entrepreneurs – from small-scale farmers to neighbourhood shops. These small and medium businesses (SMBs) are critical to the success of these value chains, while also generating important livelihood opportunities and services for local communities. As […]
How can we accelerate access to clean water, sanitation and hygiene?
Hosted with Reckitt The pandemic and effects of climate change are creating a challenging terrain with high levels of water stress impacting the most vulnerable and putting a strain on WASH systems. Sustainable, community-led and owned business models are charting the path for innovations to scale with learnings distilled from experts and innovators themselves. In […]
How can innovations in workforce development programmes address racial equity and inclusion issues?
Hosted with Barclays This session explored how we can build an equitable and human-centred economy that supports and fosters a new generation of workers. We dove deep into how innovations in workforce development programmes can address racial equity and inclusion issues. We heard from inspiring entrepreneurs from across the portfolio of Acumen America, which is […]
How can multi-stakeholder platforms drive engagement and behaviour change? Lessons from addressing health issues in East Africa
Hosted with Amref and the National Business Compact on Coronavirus Focused on learnings from an ambitious multi-stakeholder platform tackling COVID-19 in East Africa, this session unpacked the effectiveness of this type of collaboration in driving sustained engagement and behaviour change to improve global health and well-being. It probed whether multi-stakeholder platforms are the way forward […]
How can business support vulnerable people and communities in the face of the poverty tsunami?
COVID, conflict and climate change are among a confluence of challenges driving a tsunami of poverty that is already crashing into the lives of vulnerable people and communities around the world. In every country, people are facing what the UN describes as a “once-in-a-generation” cost of living crisis. The war in Ukraine has added further […]
How can business help drive a more equitable society?
Hosted with Barclays Interviewees: Stella Tran, Senior Associate, Acumen America April Dominguez, CEO, Handsome App
