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Ambitious development roadmaps
Let us assume for the time being that Accenture Development Partners is correct (see last View from the Middle) and we are living in a converging global economy where corporations will be playing an...
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Activist NGOs Briefing Part 3: Emerging market campaigners – Ground level...
Region by region, in emerging economies around the world, local and international NGOs interact with their corporate counterparts in many and distinct ways.What can companies do to find the best way to...
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BrandWatch – October 2013
The power of phones in AfricaThere are nearly 400 million mobile phone subscribers across Africa– far surpassing Europe and the US. Africa is one of the largest and fastest growing mobile markets in...
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Women in mining: Africa - Businesses need to mine women’s talent
Africa is at a turning point, emerging as one of the fastest growing developing regions in the world, registering sustained economic growth rates of 5%, almost 2% higher than the global average, in...
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BrandWatch – July 2015
Female directors in AfricaNairobi-based East African Breweries is leading the way in Africa in the proportion of women on its board, according to a survey by the African Development Bank (ADB). Of the...
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Mobile networks: Apps for good
Today in African developing nations, people are more likely to have a mobile phone than a working toilet. Mobile phone networks cover almost 90% of the enormous African land mass. Meanwhile just three...
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WeeklyWatch: 2nd December 2016
Cadbury quits Fairtrade and expands Cocoa Life schemeCHOCOLATE giant Cadbury is pulling out of the Fairtrade scheme after seven years of membership, saying it will extend its own cocoa sustainability...
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B2G case study: Collaborating in the cocoa sector
Richard Scobey, president of the World Cocoa Foundation (WCF), says that WCF seeks the partnership of governments of cocoa-producing countries at every turn. “We include them in the planning of many of...
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#SDG3: Big pharma's blueprint to bring health access to all
Non-communicable diseases such as cancer, diabetes and hypertension kill around 40 million people a year. They were once thought of as diseases of the rich, but now around three-quarters of these...
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Deforestation briefing: Sustainable palm oil solution sought in Africa
While the high carbon stock approach methodology will help companies implement no-deforestation commitments in Indonesia's fragmented landscapes, it is ill-suited to help in densely forested Africa,...
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Vedanta court ruling a 'major victory for corporate human rights campaigners'
A UK high court decision to allow nearly 2,000 Zambian farmers to sue a UK company for alleged damages caused by a subsidiary could be an important step towards forcing global companies to take...
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Final countdown for forests in the magazine
WWF’s newly released Living Planet Report makes for harrowing reading, showing a 60% fall in wildlife population over the past 40 years as habitats have been destroyed by exploding human consumption of...
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‘The communities protecting Africa’s wildlife need our help now, more than ever’
The last 18 months have been extremely challenging for everyone, but none more so than those living in the developing world. Covid-19 has been particularly devastating to the economies of Africa, where...
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Policy Watch: An unfair COP that will likely fail to deliver for Africa
COP27 is almost upon us. Billed as Africa’s COP, the Egyptian presidency hosting this year’s United Nations global climate summit hopes it will deliver desperately needed commitments to help the...
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