On 24th and 25th October 2013, The Partnering Initiative will be running a 2-day ‘Essential Skills for Effective Partnering’ in London, UK. Following a successful 2-day pilot course in Washington DC in April, this open training course will now be run over 2 days. Whilst covering all the main elements of the partnering cycle and providing an […]
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Leadership in a Rapidly Changing World
A new IBLF report: Leadership in a Rapidly Changing World – How Indian Business Leaders are Reframing Success, based on a collection of 20 in-depth face-to-face interviews with Indian business leaders, who are Chairs, CEOs or senior executives of major Indian businesses, recommends ways to achieve inclusive and sustainable growth in India by harnessing business […]
Take your partners: new insider on large companies and collaboration
When we started to implement the Business Innovation Facility (BIF), a programme funded by DFID and managed by an alliance including TPI, I was among many who thought that supporting companies to partner would be central to what unfolded over the three years of the pilot.
Education is Everybody’s Business: Can collective action maximize the impact of companies’ investments in education?
We would all agree that education is a fundamental pillar of sustainable development and underpins enduring prosperity and economic growth. Indeed, it is one of the central pillars of the Millennium Development Goals. So why, despite much effort, does the achievement of quality ‘Education for All’ remain a major global challenge?
From Rhetoric to Reality: Building an architecture to systematically drive public-private collaboration for development
Last week’s report from the High Level Panel on the post-2015 development, rightly puts cross-sectoral collaboration squarely at the heart of achieving sustainable development, and reiterates the vital role business can and must play as a partner in development: “each priority area identified in the post-2015 agenda should be supported by dynamic partnerships”.