Supporting Systemic Change to deliver the Sustainable Development Goals in Africa. by Richard Gilbert and Beth Jenkins, 2014. This report analyses a wide range of business partnerships in Africa to identify key barriers and enablers for achieving sustainable impact at scale, alongside considerations for policy makers and businesses as they address the means of implementation […]

A practical ‘Roadmap’ to systematically engage business as a partner in national development While the role of the private sector and public private collaboration is core to delivering the SDGs, progress is still slow. At country level, some development actors are still sceptical about the role of business, and business in general still finds it […]

September 2006 This survey was conducted by The Partnering Initiative to discover just how successful multi-stakeholder partnerships have become and what changes are needed to enable partnerships to become more effective. Download the publication  

July 2008 This discussion paper originated as part of a Cross-sector Partnership (XSP) project involving World Vision, Accenture Development Partnerships and The Partnering Initiative. This paper aims to play its part in: revealing partnership potential, addressing the challenges that working outside one’s comfort zone invariably brings and pushing forward the partnering agenda so that it […]