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: Tackling Poverty in Global Value Chains
As part of Business Fights Poverty NYC Online 2020, Business Fights Poverty and Mars are convening a webinar and online peer discussion to explore the role of industry-led collaborative initiatives in addressing poverty in supply chains. The webinar will take place on Thursday, 24 September at 8.30 – 9.30am EDT / 1.30 – 2.30pm BST, followed by 30 minutes […]
The Business Fights Poverty Fortnightly Round-Up
The last two weeks have been focused on our upcoming online conference, Business Fights Poverty NYC Online 2020, running from 21-25 September. It is completely free to attend. The theme of the conference is “Rebuild Better: Building an Equitable and Resilient Future”. We are very excited to be hearing from amazing speakers from AB InBev, Visa, […]
How Can Self-Care Help Health Systems Rebuild Better During COVID-19?
Even before COVID-19 the World Health Organisation had estimated that half the world’s population lacked access to basic health services, putting the achievement of SDG 3 in serious doubt[1]. Now the stakes are even higher as COVID-19 puts health systems under ever greater pressure and lays bare stark inequalities when it comes to access to […]
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: Future of Work – Building Inclusive Opportunities to Rebuild Better from COVID-19
As part of Business Fights Poverty NYC Online 2020, Business Fights Poverty and Walmart are convening a webinar and online peer discussion to explore the Future of Work: Building Inclusive Opportunities to Rebuild Better from COVID-19. The webinar will take place on Wednesday, 23rd September 2020 at 10AM EDT / 3PM 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: Measuring and Maximising Social Impact – A focus on learning and digital opportunities
As part of Business Fights Poverty NYC Online 2020, Business Fights Poverty and Anglo American are convening a webinar and online peer discussion to explore how the field of education has been transformed in response to COVID-19, and how the lessons learned can help us address other social challenges. The webinar will take place on Monday, 21st September at 10AM […]
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, […]
Don’t simply restart the engine; building back better means re-tooling
Covid-19 vs climate change The parallels between the Coronavirus response and how we should collaboratively tackle the climate crisis should not be overlooked. Tackling either problem will change our lifestyle in a number of ways, and we will all have to make short term adaptations for a much longer-term gain. I believe that the pandemic […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Study on the Economic Impact of COVID-19 in sub-Saharan Africa Demonstrates High Loss of Income and Usage of Digital Loans
In the months since the COVID-19 outbreak started, it has already wreaked havoc on global economies; It is estimated that almost half the world’s population is at risk of job loss due to COVID-19, and the World Bank has forecasted that the pandemic will cause the largest recession in over 50 years. Industries such as […]
The data revolution must accelerate food sustainability
The current pandemic has exposed how vulnerable global supply chains are to disruption. These technologies not only have the potential to push entire food supply chains—all the way from farmer to consumer—toward greater sustainability, they can also help improve resilience to future shocks. Here’s how: At the source: data-based farming If we want to continue […]
COVID-19: The role of business-led innovation and advocacy in supporting refugees
COVID-19 has reignited debate on the role of purpose as distinguished from profit, in business. From early on in the crisis, attention has been directed at how businesses can support the most vulnerable. The Business Refugee Action Network’s (BRAN) webinar was an opportunity for businesses to consider the impact of COVID-19 on refugees specifically and […]
COVID-19 and Responsible Restructuring
The Ethiopian garment sector provides but one example of the challenges manufacturers and workers are facing during the COVID-19 crisis. Ethiopia has significantly decreased poverty, with the garment sector playing a key role in this success; nonetheless, 24 percent of people continued to live in poverty as of 2015/2016. As the pandemic spread, global fashion […]
Addressing gender-based violence and harassment
Gender-based violence and harassment is a widespread and serious global issue that affects individuals in the workplace, their communities, and homes. Gender-based violence and harassment is an umbrella term and can take many forms including physical, psychological, sexual or economic harm – and is characterised by being directed at a person because of their sex […]