Over the last several years, models of business / NGO collaboration have begun to shift quite significantly. Five years ago, the relationship between a company and an NGO was most likely to be transactional in nature: a donation or sponsorship from the company or, in the case of a company’s social investment, a fee-for-service arrangement […]

by Andrew Kambobe, TPI Associate The Business Call to Action (BCtA) in collaboration with the UNDP Zambia Country Office, The Partnering Initiative (TPI), the Inclusive Business Accelerator (IBA) and Business Fights Poverty recently held a high-level breakfast meeting for business representatives in Lusaka, Zambia.   The aim of the meeting, held on the 15th of April […]

By Stuart Reid, Board Trustee 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 […]

By Dave Prescott and Darian Stibbe In Tanzania, the Southern Agricultural Growth Corridor of Tanzania is driving the systemic change necessary to enhance food security and nutrition, inclusiveness and green growth. By 2030, it aims to bring 350,000 hectares of land into profitable production, transition 100,000 small-scale farmers into commercial farming, create 420,000 new employment […]

The delivery of the Global Goals (Sustainable Development Goals) will require an unparalleled level of collaborative action between business, government, the UN, NGOs and civil society. For cross-sector / multi-stakeholder partnerships to fully deliver on their potential, a number of essential ‘building blocks’ must be in place to scale up their use, quality and impact. […]