With Hubs in Zambia and Colombia now entering their implementation stages, a third country, Mozambique has just begun the initial scoping phase. The Business in Development Facility (BIDF) aims to help countries systematically scale up partnership action through the creation of locally-owned and run Business and Development Partnership Hubs. These are multi-stakeholder platforms designed to […]

How will we feed an additional 2 billion mouths in 2050? The global population is expected to reach 9.6 billion by 2050. Alongside limited agricultural land, water security issues, infrastructure and biodiversity challenges plus climate change we face an uncertain future in food security. What are leading policymakers, government officials, academics, NGOs and the private […]

Ashoka, the Zermatt Summit Foundation, Fondation Guilé, DPD and Boehringer Ingelheim are launching an online collaborative competition, Social & Business Co-Creation: collaboration for impact to source, highlight and catalyze innovative Co-Creation projects in Europe led by social-mission organisations (e.g. NGO, association, not-for-profit, foundation, social enterprise), traditional businesses and public institutions. These projects will illustrate new […]

On 30 April-1 May, 2014, The Partnering Initiative will be running a 2-day ‘Essential Skills for Effective Partnering’ in London, UK. Whilst covering all the main elements of the partnering cycle and providing an overview of the partnering process, it will focus mainly on ‘Scoping and Building’ and ‘Managing and Maintaining’ stages. It builds the skills and […]

 The Partnering Initiative, Business Action for Africa and Harvard Kennedy School Corporate Social Responsibility Initiative have released a major new report, ‘A  New Global Partnership with Business’ which draws on insights from a wide range of business partnership case studies across Sub-Saharan Africa to set out  recommendations on how best to unlock the full potential […]