The Zambia Business in Development Facility (ZBIDF) is a new multi-stakeholder platform to engage business, facilitate dialogue and innovation and directly support public-private partnership action on key business and development challenges. The ZBIDF mission is to systematically support and catalyse cross-sector partnerships in order to unleash the power and resources of business on poverty reduction and […]
Archives for May 2014
Unleashing the power of business: report launch
On the 16th of April 2014, at the first high level meeting of the Global Partnership for Effective Development Cooperation, Justine Greening, the UK Secretary of State for International Development, launched Unleashing the power of business: A practical Roadmap to systematically scale up the engagement of business as a partner in development. Introducing the Roadmap, […]
Platforms for partnership workshop: towards a community of practice
On the 13th and 14th of April, ahead of the first high level meeting of the Global Partnership for Effective Development Cooperation, a group of practitioners of partnership platforms met to exchange experience and learning during a 2-day workshop convened by The Partnering Initiative. Partnership platforms set out to systematically drive the creation of cross-sector […]