TRANSFORM (Unilever, FCDO & EY)

At TRANSFORM, our mission is to support visionary enterprises providing solutions to the world's most pressing challenges. 🌍 Many enterprises already have great regional insights and local connections, so our role is to help them scale and maximise their impact. Meet Sunkanmi Agbomeji and Kevork Arslanian from one of TRANSFORM's core organisations. Through #EYRipples, they volunteered to work with two of our enterprises TakaTaka Ni Mali and Nazava Water Filters. Read our new impact story and hear their experience on how volunteering at TRANSFORM allows them to hone their professional skills and give back to the community. 👉 https://bit.ly/3Yt3Ruj We encourage anyone working within the core organisations to explore volunteering opportunities with TRANSFORM. If you’re already doing so, share your stories with us to inspire more like-minded people! #WeTRANSFORMLives #corporatevolunteering #SDGs

Will you be at World Water Week next month? 💧 We'll be hosting an onsite and online session on driving effective behaviour change around WASH. In collaboration with Johns Hopkins Center for Communication Programs, discover practical steps from our WASH toolkit for impact enterprises to inspire key WASH influencers towards improved sanitation practices, and hear first hand from WASH enterprises. 📅 Date: 27 August 🕒 Time: 9:00-10:30 CEST 📍 Location: Stockholm Waterfront Congress Centre C2, Level 2 and online 👉 You can attend either online or onsite, but spaces a limited. Grab your ticket for World Water Week and register your interest: https://bit.ly/4dcYEv2 We hope to see you there! #WeTRANSFORMLives #WASH #BehaviourChange #WorldWaterWeek

Great to have been involved in such an interesting and insightful conversation! TRANSFORM is at World Water Week next month, onsite & online. Drop us a line if you're there and we look forward to continuing the discussion. Find out more at: https://rb.gy/6wk423

Since 2015, we have worked with multiple impact enterprises that support micro-retailers to reach last-mile, underserved communities, providing vital income, essential goods and services to millions of families in Africa, Asia and beyond. Collaborating with CGAP and The World Bank, we are proud to present this report on the role of digitisation and financial inclusion for micro-retailers to boost their business resilience 👉 https://cgap.pub/4ckrKsd

Vane’s Mombasa breakfast food kiosk is not just a business but a lifeline. Initially driven by desperation to provide for her family after her husband lost his job during the COVID-19 pandemic, her entrepreneurial success means her loved ones never go to bed hungry. Vane, along with many food providers, faces financial strain due to fluctuating prices of essential ingredients like cooking oil and wheat flour making it difficult to manage costs and maintain profit margins. Still, she dreams of expanding her enterprise into a hotel, creating employment opportunities for others, and further supporting her family’s future. Vane is one of 700 Kenyan workers TRANSFORM's research partner Brink interviewed to gain insight into the country’s informal economy and co-create five visions for its future. Read our full report: 👉 bit.ly/3V15TOQ #WeTRANSFORMLives #Kenya #Mombasa #FoodService #Research

💧 World Water Week is just around the corner. Will you be there? Excited to announce that TRANSFORM will be present this year both on-site and online on 27 August! Join us for our session, “Toolkit on social and behaviour change for better WASH outcomes”, where we will share insights from a water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) toolkit developed in collaboration with The Johns Hopkins University. Discover practical strategies for impact enterprises to inspire consumers towards improved sanitation practices: 📅 Date: 27 August 🕒 Time: 9:00-10:30 CEST 📍 Location: C2, Level 2 and online 💡 Topic: Toolkit on social and behaviour change for better WASH outcomes If you're at the event, please reach out to [email protected] or drop a message. We look forward to meeting you in Stockholm and online! To register, please visit https://shorturl.at/FgfUH to get your tickets. #WorldWaterWeek #WWWeek #WeTRANSFORMLives #WASH #sanitation

EVENT I Meet the Speakers of "Entrepreneurs in the SDGs"! 🌟 We're excited to introduce the esteemed speakers who will be sharing their insights and experiences at our upcoming event:   ▶ Lisa Hawkes – Global Sustainability Senior Manager at Unilever – TRANSFORM (Unilever, FCDO & EY) ▶ Daniel Nowack – Head of Global Alliance for Social Entrepreneurship (Schwab Foundation) ▶ Venugopal Gupta – Managing Director Acceleration at Toilet Board Coalition ▶ Alexandra Knezovich (Host) – Managing Director Engagement at Toilet Board Coalition   Hear first-hand from the capacity programmes themselves about the trends, breakthroughs, and challenges shaping social entrepreneurship today.   🗓️ Date: 25 July, 14 GMT 📍 Register now: https://lnkd.in/dxWQNcYe

We're excited to join the Toilet Board Coalition's LinkedIn Live event on July 25th, alongside Daniel Nowack from Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship. Our very own Lisa Hawkes, Unilever's Global Sustainability Senior Manager, will discuss how TRANSFORM's cross-sector collaborative model is supporting impact enterprises across Africa and Asia to achieve the UN SDGs. Don't miss it! ⤵️

TRANSFORM enterprise Wecyclers Corporation is well on its way to further reducing waste in Nigeria ♻️ See more on their mission ⤵️

We love seeing TRANSFORM entrepreneurs sharing their impact! Divya Hegde, founder of Baeru, a startup that works with fishing communities to retrieve ocean plastics, is featured among remarkable women finding their voices in the sustainability space Forbes India ⤵️