Our Power, Our Planet. Designed with people, Built for Place.
This Earth Day, the rallying cry is Our Power, Our Planet. It’s a call to action rooted in a fundamental truth: environmental progress doesn’t depend on any single administration, policy cycle, or corporate pledge. It’s built and sustained by communities, organisations, businesses and governments choosing to act. At The Partnership Collective, we couldn’t agree more. […]
AI is Working for Women Entrepreneurs — But Only at the Edges. For Real Benefits, We Need Targeted Action.
Imagine a woman entrepreneur running a small restaurant. She may be running more than one small business, or balancing the business alongside another job. Like most women entrepreneurs in low- and middle-income countries, she is also carrying a substantial share of caregiving responsibilities – for children, older relatives, or both. She began using AI around […]
Climate Resilience for Micro-Retailers: Why this is Your Next Strategic Priority
Across Southeast Asia, millions of micro-retailers keep communities supplied with food, medicine and everyday essentials. They are the last link in value chains, the face of brands in low-income neighbourhoods, and a vital source of jobs particularly for women and young people. Yet many of these entrepreneurs run on razor-thin margins and face repeated disruption […]
Build Climate Resilience from the Ground Up By Investing in Agricultural Enterprises
World leaders gathered in Belém, Brazil, last week with an unusually clear message: climate action must be people-centered. Before COP30 even officially opened, 43 countries and the European Union signed the Belém Declaration on Hunger, Poverty, and People-Centered Climate Action — committing to, among other things, strengthening support for smallholder farmers. It’s an encouraging sign […]
Building Prosperity from the Ground Up: Helping Farmers Thrive
For millions of smallholder cotton farmers across the globe, prosperity is not just about higher incomes today, but about securing sustainable livelihoods for generations to come. Key to achieving this goal is ensuring that farmers become more resilient and adaptable to the changing climate, and ultimately, have the ability to deliver the best raw materials […]
Views from the Global Goals Summit on Business Fights Poverty’s New Report: Making the Five Bridges to 2045 a Reality
The Business Fights Poverty community felt broadly positive about the future despite the challenging headwinds (from geopolitical uncertainty to pushback on ESG funds and everything in between). It is probably fair to say that most felt in agreement with the recent Accenture survey ,which found that 88% of CEOs see the business case for sustainability […]
Online Gender-Based Violence Limits Global Economic Growth, Research Reveals.
Read the full report “Empowered or Undermined: Women Entrepreneurs & the Digital Economy” The business world is now online, but so is men’s violence. In a time where customers, suppliers, and financiers are increasingly connecting through digital platforms, businesses simply can’t afford to stay offline. However, women business owners often encounter gendered barriers that hold […]
Our Path to Sustainability Must Include Women: Lessons from Cotton Farming and Climate Resilience
Kaumudiben Satishbhai Tadvi hails from the Vyadhar Village nestled in the district of Gujarat, on the western coast of India. Here, she works diligently alongside her family to sow and harvest cotton, while also cultivating pigeon peas and practicing animal husbandry. In recent years, she has witnessed a rise in unpredictable rainfall, strong winds and […]
Climate Action Through Market Systems: Why Businesses Need a Systems Development Approach
I (…a Business Fights Poverty ‘collaborator’ from the development space) joined the recent community event to discuss ‘actions for 2025’ because I was keen to see how far up the agenda the commitment to climate and environmental issues would sit (in the face of growing skepticism from certain quarters). I was inspired to hear that […]
When Opportunity Knocks: Three Keys for Creating Inclusive Growth through Sales-Agent Models
Valentine Abayisenga, a young community animal health worker (CAHW) in Rwanda’s Nyamasheke District, struggled to find stable employment after graduating from high school. Meanwhile, in the same community, farmer Didace Kabayiza faced risks in smallholder agriculture. Without any financial protection for his livestock, he recalled feeling “…anxious whenever it rained, as thunder and lightning often […]
How Businesses Can Use Behaviour Change Science to Improve Access to Safe Water, Clean Toilets, and Better Hygiene Habits
More than two billion people around the world still lack access to safe water and sanitation facilities. When these services are unavailable, people rely on unsafe sources of water such as rivers, ponds, and water bodies shared with animals for drinking, cleaning, and other daily tasks. With no available toilets, many must practice open defecation, […]