Interested In Joining DFID’s Graduate Scheme?
Are you a recent graduate? Are you interested in working for the UK’s Department for International Development? Here’s you chance! Today DFID launched its new graduate scheme – a paid, 50 week development programme offering a diverse range of opportunities in areas from humanitarian response to private sector development. Successful candidates will undergo a structured […]
Business Solutions to Enable Energy Access for All
Business solutions to enable energy access for all is the first major publication of the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) Access to Energy initiative. It has been released today to coincide with the launch of the International Year of Sustainable Energy for All by the United Nations’ Secretary-General, HE Ban Ki-moon. Addressing the […]
How to Improve the Impact of Private Sector Development
The Private Sector Development (PSD) field is evolving and growing fast – mainstream development is discovering the private sector. Who is doing what? What are the trends and what will be the next ‘big ideas’? And in this age of austerity, what do we know about results, and how to measure them? How can we […]
Report: Improving Business Ethics and Reducing the Risk of Corruption
Download this compelling report on business ethics and countering corruption, jointly authored by IBLF, Siemens and PwC.
Trust: The License to Operate – 7 Steps Companies Can Take to Rebuild It
IBLF’s framework identifies 7 Steps of company behaviour that can influence the trust of its customers, suppliers, investors and regulators.
Amanda Bowman: 10 Steps to Success in International Corporate Volunteering
By Amanda Bowman, IBLF In Part 1 of this blog, I looked at how 2011 had been a good year for International Corporate Volunteering (ICV). We define ICV as being one distinct form of employee community engagement – placing employees in foreign country assignments and contributing their skills to support the improvement of communities, social […]
James Mwangi, CEO, Equity Bank
James Mwangi, CEO, Equity Bank from Business Fights Poverty on Vimeo. Speaking at Financing Business Innovation for Africa’s Development: Challenges and Solutions 5 May, 2011, Cape Town Co-hosted by Business Action for Africa, Business Call to Action and partners. For more information visit: snipbfp.org/capetownevents
Securing Access to Finance for Pro-Poor Business Solutions: Panel Discussion
Securing Access to Finance for Pro-Poor Business Solutions: Panel D… from Business Fights Poverty on Vimeo. Nick van Rensburg, CEO, Anglo American Zimele Guido Boysen, CEO for Africa, GroFin Daphne Motsepe, CEO for Unsecured Lending, Absa Bank William Asiko, President, The Coca Cola Africa Foundation Speaking at Financing Business Innovation for Africa’s Development: Challenges and […]
Aeneas Chuma, Africa Facility for Inclusive Markets, UNDP
Aeneas Chuma, Africa Facility for Inclusive Markets, UNDP from Business Fights Poverty on Vimeo. Aeneas C. Chuma, Special Representative of the Africa Facility for Inclusive Markets, United Nations Development Programme. Speaking at Financing Business Innovation for Africa’s Development: Challenges and Solutions 5 May, 2011, Cape Town Co-hosted by Business Action for Africa, Business Call to […]
The New Africa
The New Africa from Business Fights Poverty on Vimeo. DOWNLOAD THE “NEW AFRICA REPORT” HERE: snipbfp.org/iHpggh Setting the Scene • Introductory Remarks: Michael Lalor, Partner, Ernst & young• Welcome: Alan Winde, Minister for Finance, Economic Development and Tourism for the Western Cape Leadership Perspectives on the New Africa • Andy Wales, Head of Sustainable Development, […]
Graham Mackay, CEO, SABMiller plc: Launch of Impala Beer
Graham Mackay, CEO, SABMiller plc: Launch of Impala Beer from Business Fights Poverty on Vimeo. Graham Mackay, CEO, SABMiller, speaking at the launch of Africa’s first ever commercial-scale cassava-based beer. The beer, ‘Impala’, will be brewed in Mozambique by SABMiller’s local subsidiary, Cervejas de Moçambique (CDM). Approximately 40,000 tonnes of raw cassava will be used […]
Richard Branson: Screw Business as Usual
Richard Branson: Screw Business as Usual from Business Fights Poverty on Vimeo. Launch of “Screw Business as Usual”, by Richard Branson. Read Richard Branson’s blog on Business Fights Poverty: snipbfp.org/vEoXO1 Please log on to the website and share your stories: virginunite.com/screwbusinessasusual
Do you know where your clothes come from?
Do you know where your clothes come from? from Business Fights Poverty on Vimeo. Rushanara Ali MP, Labour Shadow Minister for International Development visited garment workers in Bangladesh with CARE International UK. The garment workers are receiving education and leadership training with the help of CARE Bangladesh. In this film she explains what role she […]
Realising Everyone’s Potential to Work their Way out of Poverty
Two weeks ago I went to Bosnia, the latest country to join lendwithcare.org – CARE International UK’s leading new micro-lending website. Landing in Sarajevo 19 years after I was last there during the war, I was quite surprised to see a lot of buildings and infrastructure are still in the same poor condition as they […]
The SAB Foundation Invests in Social Innovation
The inaugural SAB Foundation Innovation Awards recently recognised innovators who are helping improve the lives of low-income South Africans. The Awards are part of the SAB Foundation’s focus on igniting a culture of entrepreneurship in South Africa as a source of economic growth, job creation and innovation. The awards aim to showcase and scale commercialisable […]
Mark Foster: Rebuilding Trust in Volatile Times
We are in a period of unprecedented volatility and dynamism. The daily news brings conflicting signals about the pace, nature or durability of any recovery and the macro-global picture is also far from clear. Economic power bases and traditional orders are shifting – and not in predictable ways. China, India and Brazil continue to develop […]
Empowering Women Through Business
At a recent event in London organised by Business Action for Africa, UK Department for International Development and the Institute for Development Studies titled: “Advancing Gender Equality through Business and Partnerships”, we discussed the compelling economic and business case for investing in the economic empowerment of women. We know that improving the economic position of […]
CDC Sets Up Pragati to Invest in India’s Poorest States
India’s rapid economic growth has been well documented. As has its space programme, aid programme and the number of billionaires who hail from the world’s largest democracy. But India remains a country of stark contrasts, as anyone who has travelled there can attest. According to the Multidimensional Poverty Index developed by the Oxford Poverty and […]
Women Entrepreneurs in Mobile Retail Channels
Last week I launched my Foundation’s pioneering research study in partnership with STC and TNS on the inclusion of women entrepreneurs in the retail channels of mobile network operators. We consulted 14 leading mobile operators from 11 markets across Asia, Africa and the Middle East, in addition to stakeholders including NGOs, government representatives and select […]
IFC and G20 Launch Global Competition to Promote Inclusive Business
When a business produces development results and generates profits, the combination can yield a self-sustaining approach to reducing poverty. ‘Inclusive businesses’ – firms that include low-income people in their business model as either suppliers, distributors, retailers, or consumers – are doing exactly that, and by doing so they open up new opportunities to the estimated […]