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, […]
Archives for 2014
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 […]
Scaling up business as a partner in development – Roadmap consultation
In preparation for the first high-level meeting of the Global Partnerships for Effective Development (GPEDC) in Mexico in April, The Partnering Initiative, with support from DFID, is developing a major new report. “Unleashing the Power of Business: A Roadmap for the systematic engagement of business as a partner in development”. From Rio+20, through the High Level […]
Making cross-sector collaboration the ‘new normal’: a major international consultation
**Join us for a live online debate Thursday 20th February, 2.30pm GMT** Cross-sector or public-private partnerships for development have never been higher up both the business and the international development community agendas. Every major international process, whether the Rio+20 World Summit, the High Level Panel report on the post-2015 Development Goals, or the UN’s SDG […]
Driving the engagement of business in development – online discussion
The Partnering Initiative (TPI) and Business Fights Poverty would like to invite you to a live, online discussion that poses the question ‘How can we systematically drive the engagement of business as a partner in development?’ Thursday 20th February 2014, 2:30pm GMT / 9:30am EST/ 8pm IST. As the post-2015 development architecture is being debated and put in […]