Posts – Page 23 – The Partnering Initiative

March 30, 2016 By Julia Gilbert

The Paradox of Partnership: Overcoming Cultural Difference

At the heart of every partnership lies a paradox, an inherent contradiction that cannot be ignored in the process of building a successful collaboration. A primary goal of cross-sector partnership is to bring together organisations with different but complementary attributes and to achieve something together that neither organisation can achieve independently.

March 10, 2016 By Julia Gilbert

Humanitarian Private Sector Partnership Platform (HPPP) launched in East Africa

Like many other regions, East Africa has been facing an ever increasing number of humanitarian crises, which have put an increasing strain on responders. As part of the ongoing efforts to bolster the effectiveness of the emergency response system in the region, the humanitarian community, in collaboration with business partners and the Government of Kenya, launched the […]

March 4, 2016 By Julia Gilbert

Global Partnerships Week 2016: Global Partnerships Practitioners Forum

INNOVATORS, CHANGEMAKERS, AND DISRUPTORS: NEW IDEAS IN THE PARTNERSHIPS LANDSCAPE MONDAY, MARCH 7 2016 | 9:00AM TO 5:00PM As part of Global Partnerships Week, the Secretary’s Office of Global Partnerships at the U.S. Department of State, the U.S. Global Development Lab at the U.S. Agency for International Development, Concordia, and PeaceTech Lab will organize the second annual Global […]

January 22, 2016 By Julia Gilbert

New TPI toolbook: The Partnership Culture Navigator

In collaboration with WFP, TPI has recently published the second in its ‘Navigator’ toolbook series: The Partnership Culture Navigator. The toolbook has been designed as a practical guide to help users navigate the challenges of dealing with different organisational cultures when working in cross-sector partnerships. Differences in organisational and professional cultures are a common source of misunderstanding in […]

October 13, 2015 By Julia Gilbert

Business & humanitarian roundtable calls for partnership catalysing platform

East Africa is undergoing a drastically changing humanitarian landscape, resulting in a complexity that cannot be addressed by traditional humanitarian actors alone. With the need for more, and more urgent, action, World Vision hosted a roundtable on 27th August 2015, bringing together UN agencies, NGOs, companies, WV staff and refugee community members. The event, the second in a series […]