Partnerships

Partnerships Against Poverty

Action Toolkit: Rapid Innovation Through Partnerships

A toolkit on how companies can rapidly innovate solutions in partnership with others. With the Corporate Responsibility Initiative, Harvard Kennedy School, Endeva and The Partnering Initiative and UK Aid.
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Action Toolkit: Supporting NGO Partners

A toolkit on how companies can help sustain a chosen NGO partner through the crisis, as well as protecting the investment already made in delivery of joint partnership work. With CEMEX, GSK, Primark, and the Corporate Responsibility Initiative, Harvard Kennedy School and UK Aid.
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Action Toolkit: Building and Mobilising Local Coalitions

A toolkit drawing on the experience of a pan-African multi-stakeholder platform established to accelerate local action and share global best practice to counter the COVID-19 pandemic. With the Corporate Responsibility Initiative, Harvard Kennedy School, UK Aid and Brands on a Mission.
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How Can Companies and Investors Collaborate to Embed Purpose Authentically into Business?

Join us and a panel of experts to explore how companies and investors can collaborate to embed purpose authentically into business. This live written discussion takes place on 18 of June 2020, 11:00am-12:00pm BST
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From Response to Rebuilding Better

Business Fights Poverty convened an online discussion on 14 May 2020 to examine how business can build purposeful collaborations to support the resilience and recovery of those most vulnerable to COVID-19. What examples of business best practice are available, and what practical actions could assist with the recovery and rebuilding better during and post COVID-19?
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Technology and the Workplace: Putting People First

Work is the engine at the center of our economies. Shaping a future of work where people can thrive is essential for the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals. (WBCSD) have collaborated to develop shared business principles aimed at putting people first when it comes to the impact of technology on how work is carried out by direct employees, contract and temporary workers, and workers throughout the supply chain
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Purposeful Collaboration to Fight COVID-19

While the focus has rightly been on responding to the most immediate impacts of COVID-19, we need to start thinking now about how to recover and “rebuild better”. Please share your advice on how we can best support this collective effort.
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Holding Course in the Middle of a Storm: Navigating the Deeply Disrupted Decade Ahead

If we are to truly recover from COVID-19, then it will not be about putting things back together to how they were – we need to build back better and address these deep systemic vulnerabilities that have been allowed to develop over the last decades. So what are the main challenges ahead and how will business navigate them?
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How Can Partnerships Create Rapid Innovation During COVID-19 Crisis?

COVID-19 requires rapid action, and it requires innovation. This unprecedented challenge demands that we overcome organisational and sector boundaries and join forces. A number of companies have managed to move extremely fast on innovating COVID-19 responses. Usually, these kinds of partnerships take months if not years to develop. Instead these are taking days and weeks.
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Rapid Innovation Through Partnerships

The novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic has spread rapidly around the world, creating the worst humanitarian and economic crisis in a generation. The response to this pandemic has needed to be equally rapid and innovation has been required at many levels. Private sector partnerships have been playing an important role in generating creative solutions.
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How Can Business Build Purposeful Collaborations to Support the Resilience and Recovery of Those Most Vulnerable to COVID-19?

Join us for an online discussion to explore how can business build purposeful collaborations to support the resilience and recovery of those most vulnerable to COVID-19. Thursday 14th May 3pm BST / 10am EDT
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From ‘Immediate Response’ to ‘Rebuilding Better’: Public Webinar and Online Discussion

In recent weeks, it has become clear that COVID-19 will sadly continue to have devastating impacts on the lives, livelihoods and learning of millions of people for the foreseeable future, and will exacerbate existing inequalities. As we come to terms with this new reality, what can we learn from the immediate response to the pandemic, and how can we use this knowledge to help us to recover and rebuild better?
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A Just Transition that Leaves No One Behind

World Benchmarking Alliance (WBA) will assess and benchmark the 2000 most influential companies on their SDG contributions. WBA recognises that a social transformation underpins the systems transformations that must happen to achieve a sustainable future. WBA recently launched the draft model for integrating social criteria into all benchmarks, to drive a ‘just transition that leaves no one behind’.
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Dan Neale

Dan Neale heads up social transformation within the World Benchmarking Alliance (WBA). With money, time and energy flowing in all directions at an unprecedented scales during the COVID-19 crisis – Dan explains why data and measurement are vital to ensure business impact is positive, real and lasting.
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How Can Business Build Purposeful Collaborations to Support the Resilience and Recovery of those Most Vulnerable to COVID-19?

Join us for an online discussion to explore how can business build purposeful collaborations to support the resilience and recovery of those most vulnerable
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How Can Business Help in the Building of National Coalitions to Fight COVID-19

The COVID-19 global pandemic is resulting in business, governments and civil society working together like never before. We are witnessing the mobilisation of national collaborations – such aKenya’s National Business Compact on Coronavirus –  to accelerate local action and support government efforts to counter the pandemic.
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National Collaboration Platforms for Rebuilding Better

Business Fights Poverty Online 2020 Day 5: Collaboration Hosted with the National Business Compact on Coronavirus, Kenya. Speakers: Rob Burnet, CEO, Shujaaz Inc Christian
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Sector-level collaborating to rebuild better in communities

Business Fights Poverty Online 2020 Day 5: Collaboration Hosted with the International Council on Mining and Metals (ICMM). Speakers: Nicky Black, Social and Economic Development,
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COVID-19: How Business and NGOs Can Partner to Support our Global Community Through the Pandemic

Mercy Corps joined a recent Business Fights Poverty online discussion on supporting NGO partners, Lisa Seymour-Doughty, Senior Manager Strategic Partnerships, shares reflections on Mercy Corps response to the pandemic and how the need to work together has never been more important.
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How Can Business Help in the Building of National Coalitions and Collaborations to Fight COVID-19?

Join us for a live written discussion with a panel of experts to examine how business can help build national coalitions and collaborations to fight COVID-19. The live Panel takes place on Thursday 30th April 3pm BST / 10am EDT / 5pm EAT
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What do we mean by "Partnerships"?

Learn about the power of partnerships in eradicating poverty, where collaborative efforts amplify impact and foster global development.

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