
PHINMA Property Holdings Corporation: Improving the lives of informal settlers by providing affordable and decent homes
In 2014, PHINMA Property Holdings Corporation (PHINMA Properties) joined BCtA with its Bistekville II Socialized Housing Project located in…

Ikea: Promoting sustainable cotton farming in India and Pakistan
In January 2013, the Swedish home furnishing retailer, IKEA, joined BCtA with a commitment to procure and use only cotton coming from more...

MicroEnsure: Providing affordable microinsurance to low-income customers via mobile phones
MicroEnsure brings affordable micro insurance to low-income mobile phone users in Africa and Asia by partnering with insurance companies and mobile...

Honey Care Africa: Enabling smallholder farmers in East Africa to produce and market honey
Honey Care Africa joined Business Call to Action (BCtA) in 2010 with a pledge to establish 100,000 modern beehives in rural Kenya by 2017 and enable...

Envirofit International: Fuel-effcient cookstoves for low-income consumers in emerging markets
Envirofit International joined Business Call to Action in 2013, pledging to sell 150,000 clean cookstoves to low-income consumers in Kenya...

DataWind: Providing affordable tablets, apps & Internet to India’s low-income households
DataWind joined Business Call to Action (BCtA) in 2014 with a commitment to bridge the digital divide in India by providing affordable mobile...

Aravind Eye Care: Contributing to global capacity building of eye care personnel
Aravind Eye Care System joined the Business Call to Action in 2012 with the pledge to train 650 rural women annually in eye care procedures using its...

Jaipur Rugs: Providing carpet-making livelihoods in rural India
In August 2011, Indian carpet manufacturer Jaipur Rugs joined the Business Call to Action (BCtA) with a pledge to empower women by providing...

iCare Benefits launches HVP vaccination pilot programme in Vietnam
In an effort to raise awareness about Human papillomavirus (HPV) among factory workers in Vietnam, iCare Benefits collaborated with factories...

Por ti, Familia
Por ti, Familia has committed to address this gap by providing up to 270,000 of Peru’s urban poor with access to affordable, high-quality health...

The Coca Cola Company
In 2008, The Coca-Cola Company pledged to contribute to the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals by leveraging its core business...

Anglo American
In early 2010, Anglo American joined the BCtA with its commitment to tackle poverty, empower underprivileged individuals, and promote economic growth...

SABMiller
SABMiller, through its BCtA initiative, is working to develop and improve local supply chains for barley, a key ingredient for the company’s products...

Thomson Reuters
In 2008, Thomson Reuters answered the BCtA with its initiative to provide India’s farmers with the tools and information they need to increase...

LifeSpring Hospitals
In 2010, LifeSpring Hospitals responded to the BCtA with its commitment to expand access to affordable, high-quality maternal and child health care...

Standard Chartered
Standard Chartered’s BCtA initiative leverages its deep knowledge of enterprise development to help small businesses unlock their full growth...

Cocoa Partnership
This BCtA case study takes an in-depth look at the Cadbury/Kraft Cocoa Partnership’s investment in sustainable cocoa farming in Africa, Southeast...

MAP International
The majority of Uganda’s 32 million citizens lack access to the financial sector, including banking services. MAP International, through its BCtA...

Diageo
In 2008, Diageo joined the BCtA with its commitment to develop its sorghum agricultural value chain in Cameroon by providing technical assistance and...

Vodafone
Vodafone, through its BCtA initiative, is working to increase access to financial services, drive small-scale enterprise, and stimulate economic...

Ballarpur Industries Limited
In 2010, Ballarpur Industries Limited (BILT), India’s largest manufacturer of paper, joined the BCtA with its commitment to integrate low-income,...

Sproxil
Sproxil joined the BCtA with a commitment to mobilize US$4 million to expand its efforts to empower patients and consumers in the fight against...

Tata Consultancy Services
Tata Consultancy Services joined the BCtA with a commitment to expand its platform offering personalized agricultural advisory services to farmers in...

Royal DSM
Some 30,000 children are expected to benefit from nutritious foods in low-income areas of Jakarta from DSM’s BCtA initiative. The global science...

MUJI
Japanese lifestyle brand MUJI has committed to development of an eco-friendly natural dyeing plant in Cambodia, as part as its...

Hapinoy
In April 2013, Hapinoy joined the Business Call to Action with a commitment to create an innovative and inclusive distribution network of...

Zoona
Zoona, a low-cost mobile payments system provider in Zambia, joined the Business Call to Action in 2012 with the goal of enabling financial inclusion...

SolarNow
SolarNow’s commitment is to scale up access to these solar systems for more than 1.1. million people by 2015. Over its lifespan, the solar power...

Novartis
In November 2012, Novartis joined the Business Call to Action with a commitment to improve health outcomes for populations living at the...

Breaking Through
Their success in rallying coalitions of partners and mobilising resources to lift people out of extreme poverty, to broaden access to education and...

Mobile Money Platforms
For the health sector, mobile money technology offers a wide array of benefits ranging from improved efficiency and financial accountability for...

PUPA
Service-based company PUPA, of Brazil, committed in 2013 to the Business Call to Action to provide early childhood educational programmes to...

Building Future Markets
Kenya’s National Constitution of 2010 defines youth as “all individuals in the republic who have attained the age of 18 years but have not attained...

Finance
Agriculture is an important source of livelihoods for many low-income rural and semi-rural communities around the world. More than 2.5 billion...

Ajinomoto Co.
In September 2013, the Japanese food giant Ajinomoto Co., joined the Business Call to Action with a commitment to employ its expertise in food...

IKEA
In January 2013, the Swedish home-furnishing retailer, IKEA joined the Business Call to Action with its commitment to procure and use by...

ITOCHU Corporation and kurkku
In August 2012, one of Japan’s leading general trading companies, ITOCHU Corporation, and the sustainable lifestyle company kurkku ...

Dimagi
In August 2011, the U.S.-based, award-winning socially-conscious technology company Dimagi joined the Business Call to Action with a...

¡Échale! a Tu Casa
In January 2012, the housing social enterprise ¡Échale! a tu Casa joined the Business Call to Action with a commitment to provide US$3...

CEMEX Patrimonio Hoy
In January 2014, Patrimonio Hoy, a subsidiary of the multinational Mexican cement manufacturer CEMEX, joined the Business Call to Action (BCtA) with...

CEMEX PiAC
In January 2014, CEMEX joined the Business Call to Action with its Assisted Self-Construction Integrated Program (Programa Integral de...

Waste Capital Partners
In 2012, Waste Capital Partners joined the Business Call to Action with a commitment to employ 10,000 formerly independent waste pickers as...

TTNET
In 2013 TTNET, Turkey’s leading Internet service provider (ISP), joined the Business Call to Action with a commitment to increase access to the...

Juhudi Kilimo
Juhudi Kilimo provides asset financing and technical assistance to smallholder farmers throughout Kenya. The company joined the Business Call to...

SAMBAZON
In November 2011, the US-based food company SAMBAZON (Sustainable Management of the Brazilian Amazon) joined the Business Call to Action with a...

Taze Kuru
In December 2013, Taze Kuru Gida Inc joined the Business Call to Action with a commitment to source from 100 smallholder farmers in Turkey in order...

Phillips Healthcare Services
Phillips Healthcare Services Ltd (PHSL) joined the Business Call to Action in 2014 with a commitment to provide micronutrient powder (MNP) to...

Itaú Unibanco
Itaú Unibanco joined the Business Call to Action in 2012 with the Itaú Microcrédito initiative, offering microfinancing and increasing the financial...

Mahindra Rural Housing Finance Ltd.
Mahindra Rural Housing Finance Ltd. joined the Business Call to Action in 2012 with an initiative to provide home loans to under-served rural and...

Unicharm Corporation
In October 2012, Unicharm Corporation, a leading personal care product manufacturer headquartered in Japan joined the Business Call to Action with a...

Banco Santander
In September 2013, Santander Microcrédito joined the Business Call to Action with a commitment to serve 124,799 low-income consumers with...

ClickMedix
In 2013, ClickMedix joined the Business Call to Action with a commitment to train more than 1,000 community health workers in the use of mobile...





















































