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September 12, 2018 By Darian Stibbe

5 ways to make your organization a great sustainability partner

The vision is clear and compelling: a world in which business prospers, societies thrive and the environment flourishes. Leaders from across all sectors understand the interconnectedness of their interests, drop zero-sum-game mentality and work tirelessly together to create ever-increasing value for all.

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September 12, 2018 By Darian Stibbe

Building a new infrastructure for the SDGs

Delivering the SDGs will require partnerships across business, governments, donors, the UN and NGOs at a scale that dwarfs current efforts of collaboration. This is a significant undertaking, beyond the ability of our current systems to deliver. TPI and C-Change are two organisations on a mission: to help to design and build the new infrastructure […]

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July 19, 2018 By Julia Gilbert

Partnerships and innovation at Business Fights Poverty annual conference

One of the keys for success for innovative approaches is being user- and problem-centric. In the context of partnership, this means that, rather than viewing a situation through existing organisational lenses, it is important to develop a clear shared understanding of the problem to be solved, and of the intended user group.

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January 16, 2018 By Darian Stibbe

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, […]

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December 4, 2017 By Julia Gilbert

In praise of internal politicians

Getting your own organisation behind a partnership is where most of the hard work lies. Building internal alignment is difficult for at least two reasons: structures, and individuals. Organisational structures can either actively support or strongly block collaborative efforts. And then there’s the human beings.

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