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Read the latest on inclusive business from BCtA, our partners and members
UNDP Indonesia, under the Accelerating SDGs Investments in Indonesia Joint Programme (ASSIST JP) funded by the Joint SDG Fund, partnered with UNDP Sustainable Finance Hub’s (SFH) SDG Finance Academy, with initiatives such as Business Call to Action (BCtA), SDG Impact Standard, and SDG and Thematic Bond Frameworks, to conduct a two-part training on Impact Measurement and Management (IMM)
The Inclusive Public Procurement Playbook was launched at BCtA’s 12th Annual Forum as a guide to 7 strategies that can promote supplier diversity while guaranteeing important public procurement principles.
For Annual Forum 2022, we will feature 4 sessions based on the 4 pillars of innovation-through-replication, inclusive procurement, impact measurement and management, and effective private sector engagement for development co-operation, taking place virtually over two days, 21st and 22nd September.
Three BCtA publications were seen by the DCED as good resource materials that tackle the nature of inclusive businesses.
From international mentoring to forging partnerships for telehealth in Colombia, UNDP-BCtA, UNDP Colombia, Accelerator Labs and MiLab’s programme on Inclusive Innovation Journey delivers key results for SDG 3: Good health and well-being.
In this three-part series, BCtA speaks to the entrepreneurs providing innovative development solutions to address the water problems due to climate change in the Tunisian province of Medenine’.
Entrepreneur Nasreddine Somaali’s internet of things (IoT)-based irrigation solution is intended for smallholder farmers who own parcels of land that measure less than five hectares in Tunisia.
Alternative irrigation solutions are costly for many small olive farmers in Tunisia impacted by water shortages. Entrepreneur Foued Ben Babis’ digital solution allows such farmers to share resources in finding more cost-effective solutions together.
An established approach using biochemical analysis can enable Tunisian farmlands to maximize water usage, letting them withstand climate change and other effects in the long term says Inclusive Innovation Journey entrepreneur Nadia Korchid.
Four Tunisian businesses with innovative solutions for farmers to cope with water scarcity linked to lack of rainfall due to climate change will be presenting their solutions as part of a UNDP programme on inclusive innovation.