Tuba Kocaturk is affiliated with Geelong Manufacturing Council as an Executive Director Non-Executive. M. Reza Hosseini does not work for, consult with, hold shares in, or receive funds from any organization or company that could profit from this piece and has not disclosed any affiliations that go beyond their academic position. Engineering, architecture, and construction Construction, engineering, and architecture employ 1.2 million workers across Australia, contributing 9 percent of the GDP. However, our largest service sector generates around 40% of our landfill waste and is responsible for 18.1 percent of the country's carbon footprint. The industry must alter its practices quickly for Australia to fulfill its...

  Disclosure statement Anderson Assuah does not work for or consult with, have shares in, or receive funds from any business or organization that would benefit from this article. Anderson Assuah has declared no affiliations relevant to their academic position. Many communities face historic operational, structural, and organizational challenges, including insufficient capacity and a lack of funds. Many communities lack recycling programs, including waste diversion. These challenges hamper community efforts to enhance MSW management habits, attitudes, and behaviors. However, specific communities are still pushing for better MSW management strategies by creating strategies and seeking to implement recycling programs like recycling and composting. These...

Disclosure statement Kehinde Allen-Taylor is not employed by, for co, consult with, hold shares in, or receive money from any business or organization that could benefit from this piece and has not disclosed any relevant affiliations outside their academic institution. The proper management of waste would help to stop the indiscriminate disposal of garbage in public spaces all over Lagos. As with many other countries in Sub-Saharan Africa, Nigeria is agued by a waste management issue. The Nigerian National Municipal Waste Management Policy (2020) provides no figures, stating, "Nigeria produces a large volume of solid waste out of which less than 20%...

  In the AVPN Global Conference, 2023, held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, from 21-23 June 2023, the session Finding the Best Practices in Catalytic Deployment in Asia explored particular challenges and practical solutions to overcome these challenges. Jenna Palumbo, Executive Director of Effective Philanthropy at Minderoo Foundation; Ritu Verma, co-founder and Managing Partner with Ankur Capital; and Wonyoung Kim, Crevisse Partners' Executive Office director. Crevasse Partners participated in the discussion led by Stacy Xiao, Program Officer at C3 and New Venture Fund. A few key ideas resonated with us: Viewing Philanthropic Capital as Catalytic Funding "Foundations could play a significant role in blending grantmaking and impact investing...

In February, AVPN's vice-chair and chair were on stage for a special guest lecture for China's foundation officials in Beijing. The China Foundation Centre's Academy of Training organized the eight-day course, which took place at the Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business. The subject of the talk was social investing, a brand new concept for the audience but has been a highly talked about buzzword since the beginning of last year. Therefore, the anticipation for the lecture was high, and over 80 people had registered for it. Doug Miller spoke to his audience about the idea of venture philanthropy and the...

  A new business trend is gaining momentum in China as companies attempt to balance making money and embracing social accountability. The sign of the growing trend is the increasing inclusion in Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) reports in an annual report on financials submitted by publicly traded Chinese enterprises. According to the tracker for corporate social responsibility Rankins CSR Ratings, 852 listed companies have filed ESG reports this year, an increase from 371 in the past ten years. Peter F. Drunker, an author and management expert who laid the foundations for modern corporations, once stated that every business is...

  Kellogg's has committed itself to contributing to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal #2, ending hunger ultimately. Effective partnerships are essential in delivering tangible, measurable contributions to combating hunger. The next step is to come up with a new strategy to create a replicable and scaleable movement that tackles the issue of hunger in children with a significant impact and broad reach. This will also create empowered communities. Kellogg's is hosting a seminar with two sessions and lunch at the AVPN Conference. The workshops will focus on dealing with the challenges of Food Insecurity and Food Security across Asia and Innovative Partnerships...

  2020 has been an exceptional year for everyone. It feels like the world has been paused as it battles an outbreak across the globe and the undiscovered. For many of us, that is a time to retreat to the security of our houses and await the world to open. However, for some, this isn't an alternative. Their job should continue for the most essential workers, such as waste workers. In all our efforts in Indonesia, there is one thing that is certain waste workers are an unnoticed frontline for our COVID-19 epidemic. Workers in developing economies such as Indonesia are...

  In December of this year, we launched our quarterly electronic newsletter. We invite you to join us to receive updates similar to this shortly. In the year 2023, McKinsey & Company embarked on a path to create an independent, nonprofit, McKinsey.org, and started to look into areas in which it could make a significant impact on the global challenges like the recycling and waste challenges faced by cities all over the world. This time, McKinsey.org leaped to help make this vision a reality by launching local pilot programs in its initial project Rethinking Recycling. With the help of top...

  Changes in behavior are on the center of international discussion as never before, yet remains elusive in reality. Innovative strategies developed in emerging economies settings, such as The Civic Response Teams approach to managing waste in India have the potential of helping communities across the world. In the past, a lot of organizations took approaches to behavior change from countries with high incomes and attempted to transfer them to countries with low and middle incomes. In recent years these days, NGOs in emerging economies are developing their behavior changes that are precisely specific to the populations they are serving...