The 2018 Partnership Exchange was held on 13 July 2018 in the margins of the High-level Political Forum on Sustainable Development. The one-day event, organized by UN DESA, UNOP and the UN Global Compact, supported by The Partnering Initiative, featured two expert level parallel sessions, a plenary segment, and a Partnership Showcase. The objective of […]
The Partnership Zone at BFP 2018
The Partnering Initiative and Ethicore are hosting the Partnership Zone at Business Fights Poverty’s 2018 Event in Oxford on July 18th. “There has never been a more important time for businesses to rediscover and re-energise their fundamental purpose in society: embedding this in the way they do business, in how they engage with the communities […]
Building the collaborative world we need to deliver the SDGs
For collaboration to contribute at scale to the SDGs, significant investment in the overall enabling infrastructure, capacity and environment for partnering is required By Darian Stibbe, Executive Director Collaboration across societal sectors has emerged as one of the defining concepts of international development in the 21st Century. Initially a response to the limitations of traditional state-led, […]
A watershed moment for multi-stakeholder partnerships in Kosovo?
‘Partnerships are key to delivering the SDGs and driving business and social development’, was the clear message coming out of the first ever symposium dedicated to strengthening collaboration for development in Kosovo. Hosted by the United Nations Kosovo Team (UNKT) and The Partnering Initiative, the workshop brought together sixty participants from across the Kosovan public […]
From Transactional to Transformational to Systemic Collaboration for the SDGs
Over the last several years, models of business / NGO collaboration have begun to shift quite significantly. Five years ago, the relationship between a company and an NGO was most likely to be transactional in nature: a donation or sponsorship from the company or, in the case of a company’s social investment, a fee-for-service arrangement […]