A TPI Retrospective of 2014 and Preview of 2015 Dear friends and colleagues, With their explicit inclusion within the post-2015 sustainable development goals to be announced in September, cross-sectoral partnerships have never been higher up both the international development agenda and the business sustainability agenda. In many ways, 2015 marks a turning point in the field: […]

By Darian Stibbe, TPI Executive Director In September, the Open Working Group on the Sustainable Development Goals will present their report to the UN General Assembly. While the exact details  on the specific goals, targets and indicators are still being finalized, one aspect is clear: public-private or multi-stakeholder collaboration will be essential to achieving those […]

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 […]

After a decade as part of the International Business Leaders Forum, The Partnering Initiative has re-launched as an independent not-for-profit organisation with ambitious plans for the future. Building on more than twenty years of IBLF’s cutting-edge work on collaboration, TPI was launched in January 2004, originally as a partnership between IBLF and the University of […]

 With Hubs in Zambia and Colombia now entering their implementation stages, a third country, Mozambique has just begun the initial scoping phase. The Business in Development Facility (BIDF) aims to help countries systematically scale up partnership action through the creation of locally-owned and run Business and Development Partnership Hubs. These are multi-stakeholder platforms designed to […]