Research and Policy – The Partnering Initiative

School Partnerships for Impact Guide

The School Partnerships Alliance was formed to build on the many formal and informal partnerships across state and independent schools, and work closely with schools to encourage collaboration and promote best partnering practice. It aims to draw on the best examples of sustainable and impactful partnerships addressing disadvantage and promoting mutual benefit and respect across the […]

Partnering for our Common Future: Optimising mining’s partnering capability to contribute to community resilience and thriving societies

Of all industries, mining has possibly the widest ranging and deepest impact on humanity and the planet. At one end of the value chain, every person’s life is reliant on the mining industry, from the steel beams that hold up the buildings we live and work in, to the mobile phones in almost every person’s […]

Multi Stakeholder Platforms as System Change Agents

In collaboration with Wageningen University and Research and the Institute of Development Studies, we are proud to announce the publication of a new report titled, “Multi Stakeholder Platforms as System Change Agents – A guide for assessing effectiveness“. Background: The effectiveness of multi-stakeholder platforms (MSPs) remains poorly understood, particularly in relation to their intended purpose […]

Partnering for Philanthropic Impact Report

Foundations have a hugely important and unique role: as partners, as funders, as drivers of innovation, and as catalysts for collective action. Many Foundations are already using – or desire to use – partnering to maximise their impact. Many are moving beyond pure financing, and are exploring the internal capacities required to do that effectively. […]

An ‘all-of-society’ approach involving business in tackling the rise in NCDs

The incidence of non-communicable diseases (NCDs), in particular, the chronic diseases attributed to lifestyle factors linked to poor diet, lack of physical activity, smoking and alcohol abuse, are rising dramatically throughout the world. Already, chronic diseases are the leading cause of death, and, if this trend continues, they threaten to overwhelm national health provision and […]