Inclusive business (IB) projects, by definition, tend to sit in areas outside of companies’ traditional comfort zones. In his blog on Inclusive Business in June 2015, TPI Executive Director Darian Stibbe noted that these projects are rarely business as usual – requiring a much stronger interaction with ‘society’ than traditional business. The blog highlighted some examples […]
Archives for June 2015
Implementing the post-2015 agenda: Building the backbone / platforms for development
On 18th June, The Collective Impact Forum, FSG and The Partnering Initiative convened a webinar to explore a very promising mechanism for driving cross-sectoral collaboration at the scale and quality required to meet the SDGs: platforms for partnership. These backbone organisations, which are often part of wider global collaborative initiatives, are emerging in developing countries to convene, broker, and directly support partnerships. […]
Platforms for Partnership: an essential mechanism to implement the SDGs
In September 2015, world leaders adopted a set of 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to be achieved by the year 2030. Reaching these ambitious goals will require multi-stakeholder partnerships between business, NGO, government, the UN and communities to function at a scale and quality that dwarf current efforts. The question of how countries can systematically […]
Dubai Electricity & Water Authority hosts Gulf’s first effective cooperation workshop, in collaboration with TPI
From an article first published on DEWA’s website. Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (DEWA) organised a workshop last week on Effective Partnerships in cooperation with The Partnering Initiative. The workshop, held at Grand Hyatt hotel in Dubai, supports DEWA’s commitment to establish long-term relationships with its partners, and train staff to be capable of managing […]