We face a global climate emergency requiring radical collaboration, at unprecedented speed. While there is a sense of urgency around all the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the climate crisis has the unique and powerful potential to derail every other goal if the global community cannot act decisively in the next decade to halt emissions. At […]
Staying close from a distance: how partnerships stay engaged with local communities during challenging times like COVID-19
By Dr. Leona Henry. Cross-sector partnerships (CSPs) that operate in developing countries engage closely with local communities with the goal to build these communities’ capacity for action. As the work of these partnerships relies strongly on face-to-face interaction that cannot easily be transferred to online formats, my latest research project focused on how they have […]
How can we accelerate multi-stakeholder partnering to tackle waves of urgent threats?
As part of the TPI Blog series, we welcome this piece by Susanne Salz of Partnerships2030 and Darian Stibbe of TPI. The article considers what we can learn from multi-stakeholder-partnerships which developed during the Covid-19 pandemic for other partnerships now and in future. It is equally if not more urgent and important to address another global threat – climate change – with the mindset of rapid partnering applied during the pandemic.
COVID-19: Seven lessons we have learnt about the present and future of partnering
A TPI Think Piece by Anna Hirsch-Holland, Senior Programme Manager, The Partnering Initiative. Introduction In March 2020, as the world struggled to comprehend and contain the rapidly spreading Novel Coronavirus disease (COVID-19), The Partnering Initiative was not alone in probing its own role in the unfolding crisis and the new world it would, or could, […]
The Building Forward Better Framework for closer collaboration with the mining sector has launched!
Working in collaboration with the International Council on Mining and Metals (ICMM) and Business Fights Poverty (BFP), we are delighted to announce the Building Forward Better Framework. The Framework sets out dozens of practical examples of how leading companies in the mining industry are responding to COVID-19; and provides ideas for how mining companies and […]