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Nestlé programme sees improved incomes and better resilience among cocoa farming families

Stuart Mitchell

Nestlé’s income accelerator programme is delivering measurable improvements in income and household resilience among participating cocoa-farming families in Côte d’Ivoire. This is according to a new independent evaluation by the KIT Institute assessing progress made by the program in 2024. Despite the 2023/2024 cocoa season being one of the most challenging in recent years, marked by poor cocoa harvests due to changing weather patterns, households participating in the programme have seen yields 18% higher than the control group of cocoa farmers not in the programme. This has resulted in increased…

Project Yellow Light Awards 2025 Scholarships to Students for Innovative Distracted Driving PSAs

Stuart Mitchell

The Ad Council and Project Yellow Light announced the winners of the 14th annual scholarship competition, where students have the opportunity to create public service advertisements (PSAs) aimed at educating their peers about the dangers of distracted driving, specifically cell phone usage while driving. The winning PSAs will be displayed in New York City on June 27 on a digital billboard in Times Square, with space donated by Clear Channel Outdoor. Founded in 2007, Project Yellow Light commemorates Hunter Garner, who died in a car crash at age 16. According…

22 cities unite in new global partnership to strengthen urban resilience through public health and prevention

Stuart Mitchell

The Resilient Cities Network and Sustainable Markets Initiative’s (SMI’s) Health Systems Task Force, with support of Reckitt and Bupa, have launched a major new partnership to strengthen urban resilience by advancing public health and climate action in cities around the world. This SMI Lighthouse Project, titled Resilient Cities, Reimagining Health, brings together 22 cities across 15 countries, representing over 100 million people, to take collective action on climate-related health risks through city-led illness prevention, innovation, and collaboration. With health challenges rapidly worsening due to climate change, cities can help drive…

A digital leap forward for sustainability reporting – New Taxonomy enables easier and more effective GRI-aligned sustainability disclosures that are machine-readable

Stuart Mitchell

GRI has launched its Sustainability Taxonomy, a machine-readable version of the GRI Standards that enables faster data collection and improved comparability of sustainability disclosures through the use of XBRL – the global language for business reporting. The new GRI Sustainability Taxonomy helps organizations share their data in a structured digital format, based on XBRL (eXtensible Business Reporting Language) and will strengthen interoperability with other standards, further enabling the use of GRI as the base for sustainability reporting. Covering all GRI Standards – Universal, Sector, and Topic – it provides the…

Barnardo’s Announces New Project Supporting Families Seeking Sanctuary In Scotland

Stuart Mitchell

Coinciding with Refugee Week 2025 and its theme, ‘Community as a Superpower’, children’s charity Barnardo’s proudly announces the launch of the Ubuntu project – a service to support refugee and asylum-seeking families to build vital connections and to thrive within their new communities. Barnardo’s will receive £4.5m over four years from The National Lottery Community Fund, the largest community funder in the UK, for Ubuntu which embodies the spirit of shared humanity and collective resilience that Refugee Week celebrates. The funding will support local communities and develop a regional support…