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Supply Chain Sustainability - A Practical Guide for Continuous Improvement for Small and Medium Enterprises

This two-page guide offers baseline definitions and practical steps that SMEs can take toward effective management of the social, environmental and economic impacts of supply chains. More information can be found on the website of the United Nations Global Impact Office. The organisation offers...

Meeting the Challenge of Expanding Inclusive Business

Most people interested in inclusive business have heard the success stories: Coca-Cola has generated $550 million in additional revenues by integrating local entrepreneurs into their beverage distribution chain in markets across Africa. Vodafone – one of the world’s largest telecommunications firm...

Inclusive Business - a Seminar for Innovations Against Poverty

The term 'inclusive business' refers to profitable core business activity that also tangibly expands opportunities for the poor and disadvantaged in developing countries.

Launch of the Regional GIM Report, Business Solutions to Poverty – How inclusive business models create opportunities for all in Emerging Europe and Central Asia

The Regional GIM Report, Business Solutions to Poverty – How inclusive business models create opportunities for all in Emerging Europe and Central Asia, has been officially launched on 11 March 2011 by Helen Clark, the UNDP Administrator, and Kori Udovicki, Regional Director for UNDP Regional...

Inclusive Business in Latin America - Inclusive Business offers a 21st Century solution to the intractable problem of poverty in Latin America

Neil Ghosh, head of the Washington office for SNV, the Netherlands Development Organization, focuses on inclusive business models in Latin America in this article. It was published by the Latin Business Chronicle.

Inclusive Business Solutions: Expanding Opportunity and Access at the Base of the Pyramid

IFC’s new report, Inclusive Business Solutions: "Expanding Opportunity and Access at the Base of the Pyramid" outlines IFC's business solutions that are designed to facilitate new opportunities for innovation, growth and competitiveness at the base of the pyramid (BoP).

World Neighbours (Vecinos Mundiales)

World Neighbors is an international development organization striving to eliminate hunger, poverty, and disease in the most isolated areas of Asia, Africa and Latin America. World Neighbors invests in people and their communities by training and inspiring them to create their own life-changing...

Sherritt International Corporation

Sherritt International Corporation is a diversified natural resource company that produces nickel, cobalt, thermal coal, oil and gas, and electricity. The company’s corporate responsibility in Madagascar includes programs in local manpower training, HIV/AIDS awareness prevention campaign, community...

East Timor Women Australia (ETWA)

East Timor Women Australia (ETWA) is a volunteer organisation supporting women in the world’s poorest and newest democracy. ETWA aims to give East Timorese women the opportunity to make real the benefits of sustainable handcrafts enterprises. Through strategic projects, ETWA assists its partner...

Ouelessebougou-Utah Alliance

Founded in 1985, the Ouelessebougou-Utah Alliance is a non-profit organisation, which works cooperatively with villagers in Ouelessebougou and surrounding regions of Mali to promote sustainable development. Its projects include digging drinking wells, immunizing children, training village health...

TurtleWill

Founded in 1985, TurtleWill is a humanitarian organisation dedicated to the improvement of the lives of traditional peoples in Ethiopia, Mali and Niger through local projects consistent with their traditions and cultures. TurtleWill in Mali outfits remote hospital with medicines, medical supplies...

World Bank - Tajikistan

Tajikistan became a member of the World Bank and International Development Association (IDA) in 1993. The World Bank has been present in Tajikistan since 1996 and since then a total of more than US$ 630 million in commitments have been approved. The Tajik authorities remain strongly committed to...

Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) - Maldives

FAO was founded in 1945 with a mandate to raise levels of nutrition and standards of living, to improve agricultural productivity, and to better the condition of rural populations. Today, FAO is one of the largest specialised agencies in the United Nations system and the lead agency for...

Central Research Institute for Dryland Agriculture (CRIDA)

The Central Research Institute for Dryland Agriculture (CRIDA) carries out problem-oriented, multi-disciplinary research on India’s natural resources, with a focus on conservation and efficient, sustainable exploitation. CRIDA's contributions include strategies for agricultural drought...

The World Bank Group

The World Bank is one of the world's largest sources of development assistance. The World Bank is comprised of five insitutions: - International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD) - International Development Association (IDA) - International Finance Corporation (IFC) -...

Community Builders Australia Pty Ltd

Community Builders Australia is a digital engagement firm that works with a wide range of organisations across the corporate, non-profit, legal and government spheres. Their team has been working in digital engagement for the past 15 years, with clients ranging from large industry associations,...

FUNDASOL

FUNDASOL provides training and enterprise advisory for small and medium enterprises (SMEs). The organisation advises in the management of companies and the securing of financial resources to increase the efficiency of organisations.

The Edge Connection

This organisation takes volunteers to work in microenterprise. Volunteers share their business expertise with students and clients. The mission of the organization is to promote economic self-sufficiency and self-determination through comprehensive entrepreneurial training targeting low-to...

Capacity.org

Capacity.org is a web magazine-cum-portal intended for practitioners and policy makers who work in or on capacity development in international cooperation in the South. The organisation is dedicated to advancing the policy and practice of capacity building in international development cooperation. ...

Strategic Humanitarian Services (SHUMAS)

Strategic Humanitarian Services (SHUMAS) promotes HIV/AIDS education, rural healthcare, subsistence agricultural activities, environmental protection for rural communities, enhancement of rural basic education, the support of disadvantaged and physically handicapped people by income generating...