Every Label Tells A Story: Crafting the New Normal in Fashion
Was it Machu Picchu? Or maybe Kilimanjaro? Perhaps my first trip to Asia? I’m not exactly sure when it really hit me…the devastating impact of industry on our environment and its citizens. But, an idea started to form one day. I had just come home from grocery shopping where I had obsessed over the labels […]
Citi and The Red Bush Tea company named winners of Business in the Community International Award
The Business in the Community International Award identifies examples of how businesses are helping to tackle global poverty and whether using microfinance models or the power of the brand through cause related marketing, Citigroup and Redbush Tea Company win for their different responsible business programmes supporting global communities Citi won Business in the Community’s International […]
Keeping it Simple
When people hear the word “innovation” in health, they often think of the kinds of things that are newly developed in laboratories—things like machines and medicines that have the power to diagnose and treat health challenges. Those advancements are certainly important, but some of the most interesting innovations these days are about finding ways to […]
How to Identify a Company’s Major Impacts– and Manage Them
A steady flow of surveys over recent months from management consultancies such as Accenture, BCG, KPMG, and McKinsey are all showing a majority management opinion that sustainability matters to business. One in particular, the latest annual survey of 4,000 managers in 113 countries by MITS loan Management Review and Boston Consulting Group, shows the proportion […]
Anglo American's Socio-Economic Assessment Toolbox in Action: Copper – Using local procurement to benefit the business and local community
The Quellaveco copper project is located in the Asana River Valley in the Moquegua district of Peru, 1000 km South East of the capital, Lima. The Quellaveco project identified increased local procurement as an opportunity for the business to generate a more sustainable economic and social impact amongst local communities, whilst also strengthening its own […]
Anglo American’s Socio-Economic Assessment Toolbox in Action: Copper – Using local procurement to benefit the business and local community
The Quellaveco copper project is located in the Asana River Valley in the Moquegua district of Peru, 1000 km South East of the capital, Lima. The Quellaveco project identified increased local procurement as an opportunity for the business to generate a more sustainable economic and social impact amongst local communities, whilst also strengthening its own […]
Anglo American’s Socio-Economic Assessment Toolbox in Action
Anglo American is one of Australia’s leading producers of metallurgical coal, with extensive operations in Queensland and New South Wales. Anglo American’s goal is to build a mutually beneficial relationship with the indigenous people in the areas in which it operates, underpinned by the principles of respect, understanding and trust. Recognising the distinctive cultures of […]
Anglo American’s Socio-Economic Assessment Toolbox in Action: Metallurgical Coal – Developing respectful, long-term relationships with indigenous people for mutual benefit
Anglo American is one of Australia’s leading producers of metallurgical coal, with extensive operations in Queensland and New South Wales. Anglo American’s goal is to build a mutually beneficial relationship with the indigenous people in the areas in which it operates, underpinned by the principles of respect, understanding and trust. Recognising the distinctive cultures of […]
Anglo American's Socio-Economic Assessment Toolbox in Action: Kumba Iron Ore – Establishing an effective grievance mechanism
Increasing iron ore output from Kumba’s Sishen mine and neighbouring mines owned by other companies in South Africa’s Northern Cape province prompted concerns about the local impact of increased mining activity on the nearby township of Dingleton. Kumba has been exploring the feasibility of resettling the community of Dingleton and the associated town infrastructure. SEAT […]
Anglo American’s Socio-Economic Assessment Toolbox in Action: Kumba Iron Ore – Establishing an effective grievance mechanism
Increasing iron ore output from Kumba’s Sishen mine and neighbouring mines owned by other companies in South Africa’s Northern Cape province prompted concerns about the local impact of increased mining activity on the nearby township of Dingleton. Kumba has been exploring the feasibility of resettling the community of Dingleton and the associated town infrastructure. SEAT […]
Regional Infrastructure Integration Critical to Africa’s Transformation
The world is looking to Africa as its next investment frontier. “Afrika, ke nako” is a phrase that’s become popular since South Africa hosted the Soccer World Cup in 2010, meaning “Africa, it is time”. As the second fastest growing continent behind Asia, with current growth rates between 3 and 10%, investors are hopeful that […]
Putting social performance at the heart of our business
Anglo American’s Socio Economic Assessment Toolbox (SEAT) updated and now available With a significant footprint in the developing world, Anglo American is in a unique position to improve the prospects of communities by providing jobs, supporting local procurement and, indirectly, by funding major infrastructure development through the taxes and royalties we pay. We’re also able […]
Paul Polak, Founder, IDE: Is it Immoral to Earn Attractive Profits from Poor Customers?
There are at least 7 billion different perspectives on morality, but the viewpoint I like best defines sin as the failure to reach your potential. By this definition we have at least 2.6 billion deep sinners – the 37% of people in the world who live on less than $2 a day. They are the […]
IBLF – Gone are the days of ‘command and control’ says J.P. Morgan’s India Gary-Martin
IBLF – Gone are the days of ‘command and control’ says J.P. Morgan’… from Business Fights Poverty on Vimeo. In an exclusive video interview released today, India Gary-Martin, Managing Director and Chief Operating Officer of Investment Banking Technology and Operations at top tier financial services firm J.P. Morgan emphasised that diversity is “both a business […]
Enterprise Philanthropy: Unlocking the Potential of Inclusive Business
Nidhi Hegde Senior Consultant Monitor Inclusive Markets Mumbai. There has been increasing excitement in recent years around the potential of market-based solutions to the problems of global poverty, spurred by the growth of microfinance. This has elicited a rush to the new field of ‘impact investing’ with nearly 200 funds set up in just a […]
IBLF – Soundbites From: Launch of new report on business leadership
IBLF – Soundbites From: Launch of new report on business leadership from Business Fights Poverty on Vimeo. IBLF and the Ashridge Business School launched a landmark report on 29 March 2012 that reveals business leaders are aligning their core business to serve not just customers, but also the interests of wider society. Download the report […]
Beyond advocacy – business needs to get its head in the game
South Africa has one of the worst youth-unemployment problems in the world. By some estimates, less than half the working-age population is employed, and the figures for those under 35 are even worse. The reasons for this crisis can be illustrated by an example, provided by our National Planning Commission, that involves a young girl […]
Find your Place in the Enterprise Ecosystem – TBN Conference, May 25th London
A few years ago the provocative statement “Business is the only sustainable solution to Poverty”emblazoned the stage of the Transformational Business Network Conference. If pushed to apply hard economic realities, few would deny that it’s true. Establishing sufficiency and security in the world’s most troubled economies can only truly be accomplished by making the citizens […]
The ‘Bottom of the Pyramid’ Approach Responsible Capitalism or Business as Usual?
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