News – Page 23 – The Partnering Initiative

May 6, 2016 By Julia Gilbert

Unleashing Inclusive Business for the SDGs: Vietnam Roundtable

Wednesday May 11, 2016, Hanoi, Vietnam Inclusive businesses provide goods, services and livelihoods to people living at the base of the economic pyramid (BOP). By bringing the most vulnerable into the value chain of companies’ core business, inclusive business can play a key role in sustainably contributing to the achievement of the SDGs. For companies, […]

April 11, 2016 By Julia Gilbert

Webinar: Partnerships for inclusive business results – April 28th 2pm BST

Partnerships: why are they necessary and why are they hard, for inclusive business results? Thurs 28th April at 6:30pm Delhi | 4pm Nairobi | 2pm London | 9am New York Why are partnerships typically so fundamental to effective inclusive business strategies? And why are they so difficult in practice? What are the different types of […]

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 […]