International Development – The Role of an Enabling Business
FRSA, Head of Corporate Responsibility, Herbert Smith LLP Global law firm Herbert Smith is currently engaged in a transatlantic experiment, one that is connecting lawyers from our London office with the Government of Sierra Leone. The experiment is designed to answer a question about what professional services firms can do to help developing countries grow […]
UK Parliamentary Investigation into The Integration of Smallholder Farmers into Supply Chains: Call for Evidence
Co-ordinator, All Party Parliamentary Group on Agriculture and Food for Development The All Party Parliamentary Group on Agriculture and Food for Development (APPG) has recently launched a new UK Parliamentary Inquiry examining existing how smallholder producers can sustainably and equitably be integrated into supply chains. The APPG would welcome the views of Business Fights Poverty […]
New research reveals how Africa Tweets
Young people Tweeting from mobile devices are driving the growth of Twitter in Africa, according to How Africa Tweets, new research launched by Portland in Nairobi last week. In the first ever attempt to comprehensively map the use of Twitter in Africa, Portland and Tweetminster analysed over 11.5 million geo-located Tweets originating on the continent […]
Sharing approaches to results tracking in the Inclusive Business Impacts Network; BIF/IAP Practitioner Hub
In the Business Innovation Facility we get asked many questions about our somewhat novel approach to inclusive business. A common question is about how we track results – and how the companies we work with track results. A dry and dusty topic to some perhaps, but clearly also a heating-up topic of discussion, amongst companies, […]
Does your business fight poverty? Get recognised and inspire other companies.
At Business in the Community we believe that profiling best practice is one of the most powerful ways to bring about change. This is at the heart of how we support business to address global poverty. 65% of our members think that learning from case studies of initiatives of other companies help them contribute better […]
IBLF View: Should companies educate consumers on responsible choices?
IBLF View: Should companies educate consumers on responsible choices? from Business Fights Poverty on Vimeo. This content was produced by the International Business Leaders Forum (IBLF) and is reproduced with permission.
IBLF View: What ways of thinking do business leaders need to prioritise now?
IBLF View: What ways of thinking do business leaders need to priori… from Business Fights Poverty on Vimeo. This content was produced by the International Business Leaders Forum (IBLF) and is reproduced with permission.
Africa’s Counterintuitive Comparative Advantage in Luxury Goods
Export-led growth is a fundamental tool in transforming both economies and workers lives. Asia’s dominance in export manufacturing and corresponding increases in GDP growth and human development provides evidence that international trade is a leading path to economic prosperity. Corruption and instability have inhibited Africa from becoming a leading manufacturing destination. This essay argues that […]
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 […]
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 […]
Villages in Action
It has been just over a year since we held the first ever globally broadcast Villages in Action conference. We did what had previously seemed impossible and a non-factor in the development complex. We dared to build a stage for “the poor” and handed over the microphone so they could be part of the global […]
Business Critical: Understanding a Company’s Current and Desired Stages of Corporate Responsibility Maturity
“An MOT and an advanced driving test all in one go” Legal & General are proud sponsors of, and contributors to, the Stages of Maturity research and this discussion paper, published by David Grayson and Ron Ainsbury from the Doughty Centre for Corporate Responsibility at Cranfield University. It’s been a while since the Corporate Responsibility […]
Microlending with Kiva – the lender experience
Trading fruit in Cuzco market. Selling mobile airtime in Nairobi. Embroidery in the Guatemalan highlands. These are some of the vibrant images I have of ‘private sector activity’ around the world. So when we say ‘Business Fights Poverty’, we should remember that small businesses are the heart of the issue in many communities. Commerce and […]
A New Business Plan for CDC
Blog post written for Business Fights Poverty by Rod Evison, Acting CEO, CDC Group plc CDC is the world’s oldest development finance institution (DFI), having been established in 1948. Since then it has evolved and operated in a number of different ways, but its fundamental purpose has remained unchanged: to invest in promising business in […]