tackling poverty - Uganda Multimedia News & Information https://www.weinformers.com Politics, Health, Sceince, Business, Agriculture, Culture, Tourism, Women, Men, Oil, Sports Thu, 19 Nov 2015 07:39:49 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.3.2 Support service providers in social enterprise https://www.weinformers.com/2015/11/19/support-service-providers-in-social-enterprise/ https://www.weinformers.com/2015/11/19/support-service-providers-in-social-enterprise/#respond Thu, 19 Nov 2015 07:39:49 +0000 http://www.weinformers.net/?p=43183 Business experts in social enterprise nurturing in East Africa have challenged the enterprise to support providers to nurture them to their growth so as they are being exemplified as an alternative to tackling poverty. The business specialists gathered at Kampala Serena Hotel for the first regional symposium on scaling social businesses in East Africa noted that […]

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Barefoot Power Uganda Photo: Construction Review

Solar lighting and charging systems distributed by Barefoot Power Uganda, a social enterprise focused on serving people at the base of the global economic pyramid. Photo: Construction Review

Business experts in social enterprise nurturing in East Africa have challenged the enterprise to support providers to nurture them to their growth so as they are being exemplified as an alternative to tackling poverty. The business specialists gathered at Kampala Serena Hotel for the first regional symposium on scaling social businesses in East Africa noted that the people in the region require a combination of  embedded social mandate with business expertise  and social enterprises so as they are able to create sustainable social impact to their business maturity.
The executive director ICS –creative change ,Ronald Messelink says that enterprise support provision should be about the  needs of the social enterprise,  not the needs of the support  providers. He also asked governments in the region to have laws and regulations which do not scare investors away.

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The Green Economy Coalition has today sent an open letter to the heads of states who will attend next week’s G20 summit in Toronto, Canada.

It calls upon G20 leaders to:

(1) integrate the value of biodiversity into national accounts, and to encourage the disclosure of environmental and social impact through environmental, social and governance reporting systems.

(2) reform all subsidies which encourage overproduction or wasteful consumption of resources. Given the G20 commitment to phase out fossil fuel subsidies, we urge you to report on your transition strategies and to announce when and how you intend to phase these subsidies out.

(3) spare no effort to move the G20 group forwards to support a post-2012 global climate policy framework which is ambitious, fair and legally binding.

The coalition is a unique alliance of environmental, business, labour and other organisations that have come together to advocate for a just transition to a green and inclusive global economy.

The letter has been signed by the heads of the International Institute for Environment and Development, WWF-International, Consumers International, the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) and the Global Reporting Initiative, among others.

For more details and to read the full letter see the attached PDF. The letter can be reproduced.

For interviews, please contact the Green Economy Coalition’s programme director, Dr Sally Jeanrenaud at:
sally.jeanrenaud@iucn.org
Tel: ++41 22 999 0203 Mobile: ++41 (0)79 302 5913
http://www.greeneconomycoalition.org

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