TPI works extensively with the UN and multi-lateral system to promote the role of business and of multi-stakeholder partnerships in delivering sustainable development at outreach events around the High-level Political Forum (HLPF) and the UN General Assembly. Typical of multiple interventions, TPI co-curated UN DESA’s Partnership Exchange at the 2018 HLPF and 2022 and held events to build understanding on how to make partnerships work with World Vision at HLPF 2019 and with GIZ  in 2022.

TPI played a pivotal role in the Global Partnership for Effective Development Cooperation (GPEDC), a platform of donors, the UN, the private sector, foundations and civil society to advance the effectiveness of development efforts by all actors. TPI engaged the private sector into the GPEDC, including through Business Forums at the High Level Meetings in Mexico and Kenya and, as the representative of business on its steering committee, strongly influencing the GPEDC’s thinking on the private sector.

TPI’s think pieces and policy documents influence the global discourse to move from the rhetoric of ‘we need partnerships’ to the reality of massively scaling up the use and effectiveness of collaboration for the SDGs. TPI’s seminal Roadmap for the systematic engagement of business as partners in development – developed through a global consultation – was the first report to set out a clear framework for partnering at the country-level. With World Vision, we looked in more detail at one of the critical mechanisms to achieve the SDGs: Delivering on the Promise: In-country multi-stakeholder platforms to catalyse collaboration and partnerships for Agenda 2030, launched at its own side event at the UN General Assembly.

Through its work with the UN and international business organisations, TPI is able to influence at the international level, across sectors and countries. TPI has been instrumental in partnering strategy development for six UN agencies and delivered training to approximately 2,300 UN Staff to date. Principal to TPI’s policy work is the recent launch of the 2030 SDG Partnership Accelerator, which is facilitating partnership training support and advisory services to member states.

62% of survey respondents thought TPI’s influence was important or very important, in International Policy and United Nations’ engagement with business.