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Filipinos faced a lot of challenges during and even before the COVID-19 pandemic.​ Inclusive businesses pave the way for businesses to empower poor communities and to help the Philippine economy recover faster.​ This video informs about the Inclusive Business Bill currently proposed in Congress and how it can help more Filipinos.​

This 10-minute video produced by USAID shows how an outgrower model creates benefits for companies and indigenous communities in the Philippines. It also contains voices from policy makers, who explain how Inclusive Business contributes to sustainable economic development in the country.

Learn about inclusive business promotion in the Philippines! This 7-minute video describes a papaya outgrower programme benefitting small-scale farmers and explains why the national government has opted to promote inclusive growth through inclusive business.

This report assesses the extent to which inclusive business models promote women's economic empowerment in Asia and Latin America. It looks at Inclusive businesses that involve women in their value chain and provide specific services that help low-income women.

The case study introduces the business mode of the 2011 founded South African enterprise Khuin !Kwa Kalahari Experience (KK) that offers authentic eco-tours within and around the Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park. The enterprise tackles high unemployment and poverty among the ‡Khomani San by rebuilding identities and by cherishing ancestral traditions and conservation. The case study analyses the economic, social and environmental impact of Khuin !Kwa Kalahari Experience (KK).

The case study introduces the business model of the 1990 founded South African enterprise Food and Trees for Africa (FTFA) which tackles food insecurity, unemployment, environmental degradation and climate change by creating greenbelts of community gardens and trees and by empowering emerging organic farmers. The case study analyses the economic, social and environmental impact of FTFA.

The case study introduces the business model of the 2012 founded South African enterprise Waste to Food (W2F) that has developed a combination of technologies to overcome the widespread disposal of organic waste to landfills in South Africa. The business aims at reducing CO2 emissions and pollution from food waste while addressing food insecurity and unemployment in Cape Town. The case study analyses the economic, social and environmental impact of W2F.

The case study introduces the business model of the 2009 founded South African enterprise All Women Recycling (AWR) that recycles discarded plastic PET-bottles and creates greeting cards and gift boxes. AWR does not only address plastic waste pollution, but also tackles unemployment amongst black women. The paper also analyses the social, environmental and economic impact of AWR.

This webinar addresses the question 'What does it take for large companies to succeed in inclusive business?'. The panel included Erik Simanis of Cornell University; Charles Hough the Head of Corporate Social Responsibility Strategy and Stakeholder Engagement; and Eduardo Ferriera the Head of Inclusive Business at Itaú Unibanco.

In this short video Co-founding Directors of Corporate Citizenship, Mike Tuffrey and Amanda Jordan OBE share their views on what the new Sustainable Development Goals 2015 mean for business.