Women entrepreneurs in the fight against poverty
The UK’s Department for International Development’s Africa Division has just launched its “Gender Equality Action Plan“, in which it says “DFID has long recognised that poverty will not come to an end until women have equal rights with men, and that promoting gender equality is an essential part of poverty reduction across the developing world”. […]
Volunteering and Service in America: Four National Themes
Realized Worth was unable to make it to the 2009 National Conference on Volunteering and Service in San Francisco last week, and for awhile we were seriously bummed about missing out on one of the most important volunteerism conferences happening this year. But then, we realized that given the live webcasts, blogs, and twitter it […]
2009 Series: Assessing impacts of business on development: what do alternative frameworks offer?
On 12 May 2009, Business Action for Africa convened an event with the Overseas Development Institute and the UK Department for International entitled. “Assessing impacts of business on development: what do alternative frameworks offer?” The event was moderated by Simon Maxwell, Senior Research, Overseas Development Institute. The event was hosted by Anglo American. Below is […]
Canada: Conflicted On Volunteering?
Having won the Oval Office, the Obama volunteer revolution is just picking up speed. Due to financial constraints, Corporate America intends to grow their volunteer efforts by a whopping 45%. From Washington DC to Mumbai; London to Dubai, volunteer activity is on the rise. Communities endorse it. Companies infuse it. Governments champion it….Except Canada. With […]
World's Poor To Be Helped By 'Txt Msg' Technology
PRESS RELEASE FROM THE DEPARTMENT FOR INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT (DFID): Mobile phones, text messages and fingerprint recognition could soon bring “branchless banking” to millions of the world’s poorest people to help lift them out of poverty, International Development Secretary, Douglas Alexander said today. At an event today, Mr Alexander announced a £1.4 million UK-led three-year project […]
World’s Poor To Be Helped By ‘Txt Msg’ Technology
PRESS RELEASE FROM THE DEPARTMENT FOR INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT (DFID): Mobile phones, text messages and fingerprint recognition could soon bring “branchless banking” to millions of the world’s poorest people to help lift them out of poverty, International Development Secretary, Douglas Alexander said today. At an event today, Mr Alexander announced a £1.4 million UK-led three-year project […]
Fighting poverty by empowering women
It is widely recognised in the development community that it is women who suffer most the burden of poverty, and that it is women who offer the best route out poverty. Grameen, perhaps the best-known advocate and pioneer, uses micro loans, financial services and technology, to help the poor, mostly women, to start self-sustaining businesses […]
Driving poor people’s access to markets through new technology
Today marks a big step in tapping the true power of business and new technology to lift people out of poverty. WorldofGood.com by eBay is a brand new marketplace that enables small-scale entrepreneurs from across the developing world to sell their products online. This is an important step into the world of “Development 2.0” – […]
Business and Poverty: Opening Markets to the Poor
FROM THE WORLD BANK INSTITUTE: How can the private sector help transform the lives of the poor? Can poor producers and consumers in turn transform business models and shape new opportunities for companies? These are two of the key questions addressed in the forthcoming issue of the World Bank’s flagship publication Development Outreach, which examines […]
Partnering to Strengthen Public Governance
Jan 08 – The report offers CEOs and Boards of Directors guidance on the development of an effective engagement strategy on relevant public governance challenges.
Business and Youth in the Arab World
May 07 – This sourcebook profiles 18 examples of business and partnership initiatives addressing youth development within the Arab world.
Development, Peace and Human Rights in Colombia
Jul 06 – The report draws together the latest thinking from overseas combined with examples of pioneering efforts in Colombia, to show how companies can work in partnership with other stakeholders to create conditions for lasting prosperity.
Cybermonks and rural entrepreneurs in Sri Lanka
Better Corporate Governance: More Value for Everyone.
The state of corporate governance can have an important effect on the availability and cost of capital for all firms, and good corporate governance of financial firms is essential in fostering financial stability and healthy economic growth. Good corporate governance frameworks help firms and countries improve accountability, more efficiently use capital, and attract quality and […]
Human Rights: It is your Business
Dec 05 – The paper summarises the expectations for companies to take responsibility in reducing human rights abuses and describes good practice on how the corporate response can be managed.
First to know: Robust internal reporting programs
Aug 04 – This guidebook is designed to help managers establish programs to investigate and resolve reports of compliance problems in their global operations.
Human rights & the private sector
May 04 – This publication provides relevant frameworks for those interested in corporate practice and policy implementation on human rights.
Human rights & the private sector
May 04 – This publication provides relevant frameworks for those interested in corporate practice and policy implementation on human rights.
Rebuilding Bridges: Opportunities and Challenges for Responsible Private Sector Engagement in Iraq's Reconstruction
2003 – This briefing paper by Jane Nelson and Jonas Moberg focusses on some of the business risks and opportunities that foreign companies face and it proposes eight steps they can take to minimise their own risk exposure, rebuild trust and play a responsible and creative role in the rebuilding of Iraq.
Rebuilding Bridges: Opportunities and Challenges for Responsible Private Sector Engagement in Iraq’s Reconstruction
2003 – This briefing paper by Jane Nelson and Jonas Moberg focusses on some of the business risks and opportunities that foreign companies face and it proposes eight steps they can take to minimise their own risk exposure, rebuild trust and play a responsible and creative role in the rebuilding of Iraq.