How can we accelerate multi-stakeholder partnering to tackle waves of urgent threats?
As part of the TPI Blog series, we welcome this piece by Susanne Salz of Partnerships2030 and Darian Stibbe of TPI. This article considers what we can learn from multi-stakeholder-partnerships which developed during the Covid-19 pandemic for other partnerships now and in future. It is equally if not more urgent and important to address another global threat – […]
Business Fights Poverty Fortnightly Round-Up
India and COVID-19 Response The last couple of weeks have clearly shown the inequity in the global COVID response. On the one hand, the UK is contemplating opening up foreign travel amidst reports that over 50% of adults have now had a first dose of the vaccine. On the other, India is confronting the catastrophic […]
Where are children and young people in business’ action to tackle climate change?
Children are powerful. In recent years, we have witnessed their strength courage and resilience, as they have spoken up time and time again about how climate change is affecting their lives. How it is affecting their futures. From leading protests calling on world leaders to act on climate change to writing to companies to adopt […]
Why 2021 presents an opportunity to build back better and take action on big societal issues like climate change
2020 was a year full of uncertainly. Not only did the pandemic affect our health and personal lives, it also fundamentally challenged our political, social, and economic norms too. Most notably though, the impact it had on how many of us think about tackling the big issues like climate change was huge. So, despite the […]
India and COVID Response
I’m sure, like me, you have been shocked to see the scenes in India of people being turned away from hospitals in Delhi due to a lack of oxygen. On 24 April, India reported nearly 350,000 new cases of COVID-19, a world record for the number of new infections during the pandemic. By early May, […]
Texas, Climate and Equity
As a retired nurse, I am passionate about the health of my local community in Pleasantville, a neighborhood in Houston, Texas. I have seen first-hand how deep inequities impact on people’s lives, most recently in the face of a devastating winter storm that led to rolling blackouts that left about 4 million people across the […]
How can companies contribute to growth that generates benefits for society as a whole?
One of the objectives that we pursue in our IV report is to create greater awareness of inequality and make poverty in our country more visible by making its different faces known: child poverty, energy poverty, or the so-called “poor with work,” people who, even with a permanent job, do not make ends meet. During […]
The Time Is Now: Accelerating the Business for Impact Movement
As the shock of the pandemic subsides, we are beginning to understand how companies were impacted and how they responded to this unprecedented, definitional crisis. What is emerging is a world of polarization. A study we conducted in late April with 28 Ashoka corporate partners showed that 70% of companies, and their respective industries, fall […]
Business and COVID-19 One Year On
COVID-19 has impacted us all, but the most severe impacts are being felt by the most vulnerable people. On March 12 2020, Business Fights Poverty launched a programme to accelerate global learning and local action to support the most vulnerable people and enterprises in companies’ value chains, communities and beyond. We started by developing a Response Framework with […]
Business Fights Poverty Fortnightly Round-Up
This month marked the anniversary of the WHO declaring the COVID-19 pandemic. This milestone presents an opportune moment to reflect on the devastating loss of life and opportunity that has been suffered – particularly by the world’s most vulnerable people. Alongside this, the anniversary has been a time for us to remember the countless acts […]
It’s time to scale up regenerative agriculture: a win-win for farmers, food companies, and our environment
Conventional farming is one of the world’s greatest drivers of climate change and biodiversity loss, and we’re running out of time to reverse its adverse effects. But there is good news too: the largest study ever done on sustainable farming supports the idea that regenerative agriculture could be the answer to turning it all around. […]
Unleash the Accountant Warriors
“It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.” Upton Sinclair When Upton Sinclair went undercover in Chicago’s meat packing district to depict the abhorrent conditions under which workers had spent their days at the beginning of the last century, an uproar followed leading to […]
Business Partnerships as a Force for Good
Business Partnerships for Global Goals (BP4GG) is a UK Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office programme which invests in partnerships with businesses to test and scale shared value initiatives that support achieving the SDGs. Managed by Mott MacDonald, the programme hosts the Vulnerable Supply Chains Facility, a rapid COVID-19 response facility partnering with 20 international agricultural […]
Business Fights Poverty Fortnightly Round-up
Last week, our Rebuild Better Virtual Summit on Gender brought together experts and practitioners from across sectors and continents to ask what business can do to support women, particularly in view of the disastrous impacts of COVID-19 on gender equality and the empowerment of all women and girls. Between 9-11 March, we explored three subject areas that […]
Companies Can’t Ignore the ‘She-cession’ Created by the COVID-19 Pandemic
“Stronger engagement on gender equality is key to a sustainable global recovery from the COVID-19 crisis and building fairer, more inclusive, more prosperous societies. Women and girls are in the frontline of the pandemic and must be put in the driving seat of the recovery.” In this statement, Jutta Urpilainen, EU Commissioner for International Partnerships, stresses […]
The Fourth Industrial Revolution Needs Equality Tech
The Fourth Industrial Revolution is characterized by a fusion of technologies that is blurring the lines between the physical, digital, and biological spheres. It is impacting all disciplines, economies and industries, altering how companies, governments and individuals operate, from the way we live, work, and relate to one another, ultimately leading to societal transformation.[1] The impact […]
Gender is a significant factor in private sector and disaster management
One of the key considerations of gender in private sector disaster management is that women are overrepresented in the economic sectors that are hit hardest in disasters, as well as in the informal sector which is specifically vulnerable to disasters. Some might say the selection of career is a personal choice. But is it? The World […]
Business Fights Poverty Fortnightly Round-Up
It is nearly a year since Business Fights Poverty launched the Business & COVID-19 response centre. From the initial urgent response, to matters of longer-term recovery and resilience, organisations from across our community are holding fast to their commitment to help the most vulnerable. This week, we’ve highlighted three areas in which the global community […]
In finance we trust
With a raging global pandemic, a continuing climate emergency, and widespread unrest, it is clear the current economic and social order is in deep crisis. These issues have been exacerbated by widening inequality and threats to democratic norms that have resulted in a remarkable breakdown of trust in the institutions that govern our world. We […]
Business Fights Poverty Fortnightly Round-Up
This fortnight, women’s leadership has been front and centre as we prepare for our next Rebuild Better Virtual Summit on Gender, which takes place over three days on 9-11 March to coincide with International Women’s Day. Our three live webinars will explore how business can help to support women’s leadership as well as breaking down […]