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Shopping for a bargain: How the purchasing practices of clothing brands in Australia impact the women who make our clothes

Oxfam
This report examines the purchasing practices of clothing brands operating in Australia and highlights the impact on women workers in the countries where clothing is made. It calls on brands to publish a plan and commitment to ensuring a living wage for workers throughout their supply chains.
Research
25 November 2020

Enabling FPIC through voluntary standards: An ISEAL innovations fund project

Roundtable on Sustainable Biomaterials (RSB)
This report explores ways to enable Free, Prior, and Informed Consent through voluntary standards. It reviews existing literature and provides a framework for companies and assurance providers to verify and monitor successful implementation of Free, Prior, and Informed Consent from the perspective of affected communities.
Research
4 October 2018

New pathways to achieve social and environmental goals: How leading corporations use impact investing to align capital and purpose

Global Impact Investing Network (GIIN)
This report examines how leading corporations use impact investing to pursue environmental and social goals. It contains case studies of companies such as PayPal and Schneider Electric, showcasing their impact investing practices and strategies.
Research
10 November 2023

Impact in place: Emerging sources of community investment capital and strategies to direct it at scale

Federal Reserve Bank of New York
This report presents emerging sources of capital for community investing through corporations, client solutions and community-driven investing. The report discusses how this field could shape the future of community investment.
Research
18 May 2021

Financing SDGs in emerging markets: The role of green, social, sustainability and sustainability-linked (GSSS) bonds

Global Steering Group for Impact Investment
The report highlights the potential of green, social sustainability and sustainability-linked bonds in funding developing countries' progress towards the SDGs, offering recommendations for increased involvement from issuers, investors, policy-makers, and development finance institutions (DFIs).
Research
26 September 2023

Climate poverty connections: Opportunities for synergistic solutions at the intersection of planetary and human well-being

Project Drawdown
The report highlights co-benefits of climate solutions that also improve human well-being. The report focuses on sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia and shows the potential of environmental solutions to help relieve poverty. It also recommends further evaluation on existing solutions and assessing unintended consequences.
Research
7 April 2022

A conceptualisation of sub-living wages: Liabilities, leverage, and risk

Harvard Business School
This report proposes an alternative approach for organisations to account for wages paid below the local living wage level through a firm's balance sheet, creating leverage effect as the organisation borrows from society, reflecting higher stakeholder risk. This can help investors, policymakers, customers, corporate managers and other stakeholders to assess an organisation's exposure to human capital erosion.
Research
15 June 2022

Impact investing for pensions

Impact Investor
This report analyses the growth of impact investing strategies among European pension funds. The report examines challenges and opportunities, regulatory restrictions, impact measurement and management, private equity case studies, and emerging investments in affordable and social housing.
Research
1 May 2023

Lessons from Canada’s approach to extending financial access to survivors of modern slavery

UN University Centre for Policy Research (UNU-CPR)
This briefing showcases how Canada has effectively extended financial access to survivors of modern slavery through its Public Private Partnership approach. This briefing offers practical insights and lessons for the financial sector.
Research
19 September 2023

Business banking and start-up support for survivors of modern slavery and human trafficking

Finance Against Slavery and Trafficking (FAST)
The report highlights the Survivor Inclusion Initiative (SII), addressing the business banking and startup needs of survivors of modern slavery and human trafficking. It outlines efforts such as training, support, expert review, and the global Survivor Business Roundtable to enhance survivors' access to financial services.
Research
5 October 2022

Impact investing 2.0: The way forward

Center for the Advancement of Social Entrepreneurship (CASE) at Duke
This research aims to provide insights on the rapidly evolving impact investing landscape. The report is based on a survey of 12 high-performing impact investing funds that represent a diversity of asset classes, objectives, geographies, and impact areas.
Research
7 November 2013

Navigating impact investing: The opportunity in impact classes

Tideline
This working paper aims to bring greater clarity and understanding to the impact investing field, which is characterised by diversity and complexity. Omidyar Network led this field-building initiative, with contributions from 45 expert interviews. The report outlines a concept for building “impact classes,” or common structures for assessing impact investing options.
Research
5 July 2016

Finding affordable home options for invisible women

Social Enterprise Finance Australia (SEFA)
This report explores ownership models for modest-income earning 'middle-aged' women in Australia. Findings suggest that shared equity, build-to-rent and rent-to-own, and staircasing models provide possible affordable home options to this growing group if financial barriers are eliminated through a subsidy or philanthropic funding.
Research
20 September 2022

Exploring philanthropy's role in addressing the affordable housing crisis: A synthesis of the evidence

Social Enterprise Finance Australia (SEFA)
This report explores how philanthropic funds can be leveraged to tackle financial and non-financial barriers in affordable housing. Desk research, case studies, and financial modelling have been used to highlight the role philanthropy can play in bridging the gap for various affordable housing models.
Research
30 November 2020

Survival of the richest: How we must tax the super-rich now to fight inequality

Oxfam
This briefing paper highlights how taxing the super-rich is crucial in fighting inequality and addressing the multiple crises we are currently facing. The report provides practical solutions to raise taxes, while showcasing how decreasing economic inequality leads to decreasing gender, race, and colonial inequality.
Research
11 January 2023

What Doughnut Economics means for business: Creating enterprises that are regenerative and distributive by design

This guide is intended for businesses and individuals who want to implement Doughnut Economics principles. It provides guidance on how to redesign a business through its strategic decisions and operations by focusing on purpose, networks governance, ownership and finance. The paper explores barriers and innovations to sustainable business design.
Research
7 November 2022
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