Business Fights Poverty

When organisations talk about prosperity, the conversation often centers on income, employment, assets, or economic growth. These measures matter, but they do not tell the whole story.

Through Prosper Global’s Voices of Prosperity ini...

Meet Social Impact Pioneers, Lisa Hawkes, Global Sustainability Senior Manager at Unilever, and Noshin Suleman, Associate Director, Global Corporate Responsibility team at EY. In this article, they share insights from more than a decade of TRANSFORM, exploring what it takes to build effective cross-sector partnerships, support locally-led innovation and help impact enterprise...

Today, more than 117 million people worldwide have been forced from their homes, many displaced multiple times. That number is staggering, but what stays with me are the individual stories behind it: people navigating profound uncertainty while working to rebuild their lives, support their families and regain a sense of stability.

The gap between humanitarian needs and...

On the islands of eastern Indonesia, climate change is creating a difficult balancing act for Komodo Water, a social enterprise that provides clean water to remote communities. Heavy rains can wash away mountain pipelines, storms make inter-island transport unsafe, and flooded roads can cut...

For years, coffee farmers in the Pech community of Subirana, Honduras, had little reason to invest in their land. Isolated in the buffer zone of the Río Plátano Biosphere Reserve, they sold through local intermediaries who paid low, unpredictable prices regardless of quality. “Before the project I did not take care of my farm, and my income was very low,” recalls farmer Nora ...