VIDEO: How can we develop public-private partnerships?
Neil Britto is Adjunct Assistant Professor of Public Service of NYU’s Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service. Neil is the Co-Founder of The Intersector Project, a non-profit organization that supports practitioners in cross-sector collaboration. Neil has advised companies, governments, and foundations on public-private partnerships. He is a Fellow at the Institute for Business […]
VIDEO: How can companies best engage in partnerships to drive transformational change?
Seth Green is the founding director of the Baumhart Center, an interdisciplinary center at Loyola University Chicago that prepares leaders to tackle society’s most pressing challenges. Seth is also an executive lecturer in the Management Department of Loyola’s Quinlan School of Business, where he teaches courses on nonprofit leadership, social entrepreneurship, and corporate social responsibility. […]
Upcoming Online Event: Building System-Level Partnerships to Strengthen Food Systems
As part of Business Fights Poverty NYC Online 2020 , Business Fights Poverty and Nestlé are convening a webinar and online peer discussion on Building System-Level Partnerships to Strengthen Food Systems . The webinar will take place on Friday, 25 September 2020 at 10AM EDT / 3PM BST, followed by 30 minutes Peer Discussion ending […]
Four lessons for businesses wanting to build more equitable supply chains through sustainable sourcing
Approximately 78 percent of the world’s poor, or 800 million people , live in rural areas and rely on agriculture for a living. Most of those smallholder farmers are operating at extremely low levels of productivity and are excluded from formal markets. Meanwhile, there is a growing demand for locally-sourced food, particularly in growing urban hubs […]
Scaling the Impact of Digital Financial Services: The Opportunity and Imperative during COVID-19
“Being paid into an account is much safer. During Corona, if I were paid in cash, I would have had to go to the factory in person and disinfect the money as my colleagues did when they received their salaries in the envelope.” Ibrahim, Garment Worker, Egypt For Ibrahim, as for many low-income workers in […]
Business calls on governments to mitigate the impacts of COVID-19 and accelerate SDG progress for refugees
On 16 September, the Business Refugee Action Network (BRAN) released its Business Takes a Stand for Refugees Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) Statement, endorsed by 19 businesses and organisations, including Virgin Group, Ben & Jerry’s and Citi and supported by Deputy Chair of The Elders and former UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon. Ahead of the UN General […]
VIDEO: How can companies integrate human rights into their business purposes and strategies
Hannah Temple is Director of Consulting at twentyfifity ltd., the world’s first human rights and business specialist management consultancy. Since 2004, twentyfifty has helped some of the world’s largest businesses to powerfully and practically respect human rights across their operations and value chains. twentyfifty supports its clients to practically implement what is known as human […]
VIDEO: How can I cultivate Intrapreneurship in my buisness?
Maggie De Pree is an entrepreneur, community builder, activist innovator and mother. She loves prototyping new ways of working and organizing. With an amazing team of visionaries, she is building a global community of corporate and institutional change agents called The League of Intrapreneurs, which she co-founded. WHAT THIS SESSION COVERS The aim of […]
To achieve the SDGs, business needs to grapple with its inequality footprint
COVID-19 is exacerbating the global inequality crisis – here is what business can do. Rising economic inequality, now exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic, is a major threat to the world’s economy and to achieving the UN Sustainable Development Goals. SDG 10 (reducing inequality) has been one of the most neglected SDGs by companies to date. […]
Upcoming Online Event: Driving Digital Equity for the Most Vulnerable
As part of Business Fights Poverty NYC Online 2020, Business Fights Poverty and Visa are convening a webinar and online peer discussion to explore how multilateral partnerships can drive digital equity for the most vulnerable. This article gives a brief insight into the importance of digital equity, and explains how a wide range of organisations can play a part […]
Upcoming Online Event: The Future We Want
As part of Business Fights Poverty NYC Online 2020, Business Fights Poverty and AB InBev are convening a webinar and online peer discussion to explore opportunities, challenges and collaborative solutions as we rebuild better from COVID-19. The webinar will take place on Monday, 21 September at 8.30 – 9.30am EDT / 1.30 – 2.30pm BST, followed by 30 minutes Peer Discussion ending […]
Upcoming Online Event: Nature and Its Value to International Supply Chains
As part of Business Fights Poverty NYC Online 2020, Business Fights Poverty and Standard Chartered are convening a webinar and online peer discussion to explore how we can account for, invest in and enhance the value of nature present in supply chains. This article delves into nature’s benefits to international supply chains, and examines one initiative that is […]
Upcoming Online Event: Business Donor Partnerships for System-Level Impact
As part of Business Fights Poverty NYC Online 2020, Bayer, Mastercard, The European Commission, The UK Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office, Unilever, USAID and The Partnering Initiative are sharing their insights during the webinar and online peer discussion to explore the Business Donor Partnerships for System-Level Impact. The webinar will take place on Friday, 25th September 2020 at 8.30AM EDT […]
Upcoming Online Event: Hygiene and Behaviour Change: Business Coalitions to Fight COVID-19
As part of Business Fights Poverty NYC Online 2020, Business Fights Poverty and Unilever are convening a webinar and online peer discussion to explore how business coalitions can help in the fight against COVID-19. The webinar will take place on Wednesday 23 September 2020 at 8.30 – 9.30am EDT / 1.30 – 2.30pm BST / 3.30 – 4.30 EAT, […]
Join us to participate in the largest ever global conversation on building the future we want
In less than two weeks, the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) High Level Meeting will begin in New York, but for the first time in its 75 year history, the event will be held almost entirely online and sessions will be streamed into homes and workplaces around the world. Usually tickets for UNGA are a […]
What are the innovations that could shape and transform the next decade?
The essential systems transformations that sit at the heart of the delivery of the SDGs will all depend on innovation: in decarbonization technologies, transport technologies, in preventative healthcare and in gene technologies, materials and materials reuse, in building design, building use and reuse, in sanitation and in the sanitation economy, in agricultural practices, food storage […]
Supporting Women’s Wellbeing through Flexible, Digital Earning Opportunities
The WTO has recently predicted that the economic impacts of the coronavirus pandemic will be disproportionately felt by women, with a ‘pink collar recession’ threatening to roll back the gender equality gains of recent decades. In the UK, there are indications that women are bearing the brunt of redundancies, mothers are more likely than fathers […]
Going above and beyond to support women entrepreneurs
At home, women are taking on much greater caring responsibilities for children who have been unable to attend school, while also having to step into an educational role. At work, women are more likely to be in the sort of low-paid or informal work – hospitality, healthcare, cleaning – which either exposes them to the […]
Resetting the Agenda: Using partnerships as a step to more impactful change in a better, post pandemic world
“The real problems of our planet are not economic or technical, they are philosophical. The philosophy of unbridled materialism is being challenged by events.” EF Schumacher: Small is Beautiful: “A Study of Economics as if People Mattered,” 1973 The coronavirus has exposed just how fragile our lives are. Over the past decade, even though there […]
Reinforcing the ‘S’ in ESG during COVID-19: reflections from our investees
Social risk is a broad term which primarily focuses on the management and engagement of people across the workforce, community and wider stakeholder groups. It is a topic which has risen to the fore during COVID-19, as firms consider not only the impact of the pandemic on business operations, but also its impact on workforces […]