Business Call to Action Annual Forum 2015, NYC Breakfast Session – September 24th, 2015, 8:30 – 9:45am The new Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) emphasize working with business to carry out an ambitious agenda for people, prosperity, peace and the planet. Some of the most innovative approaches to harnessing business for social impact have come from domestic companies and large corporates […]
TPI’s Roadmap – final report now published
The initial findings of TPI’s roadmap report, Unleashing the power of business: A practical Roadmap to systematically engage business as a partner in development, were published last year and launched by UK Secretary of State for International Development, Justine Greening. The final report, which sets out a systematic, integrated and – most importantly – actionable approach to scaling up […]
‘Fit for Partnering’ assessment: understanding your institutional readiness to partner
TPI has been supporting individuals and organisations in their partnering for over a decade. In our conversations with practitioners, a number of common challenges continually surface, irrespective of the individual context, sector, organisation and geography. It is quickly apparent that almost all of these are directly linked to the organisation’s internal capacity or processes rather […]
Partnering for inclusive business – the checklist
Inclusive business (IB) projects, by definition, tend to sit in areas outside of companies’ traditional comfort zones. In his blog on Inclusive Business in June 2015, TPI Executive Director Darian Stibbe noted that these projects are rarely business as usual – requiring a much stronger interaction with ‘society’ than traditional business. The blog highlighted some examples […]
Implementing the post-2015 agenda: Building the backbone / platforms for development
On 18th June, The Collective Impact Forum, FSG and The Partnering Initiative convened a webinar to explore a very promising mechanism for driving cross-sectoral collaboration at the scale and quality required to meet the SDGs: platforms for partnership. These backbone organisations, which are often part of wider global collaborative initiatives, are emerging in developing countries to convene, broker, and directly support partnerships. […]
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