Partnerships

Partnerships Against Poverty

How can we collaborate better across climate and health to drive equity and resilience?

Hosted with GSK Climate change threatens people’s lives, health and wellbeing. These impacts are not being felt equally, and reflect deep-seated inequities, such as
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How can we support new voices for climate justice?

Hosted with Meta Interviewees: Amanda Gardiner, Head, Sustainability Innovation & Engagement, Meta Sophia Li, Journalist and Climate Advocate
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How can business partnerships tackle the hidden hunger through access to essential nutrients?

Hosted with Bayer Interviewees: Daniella Foster, Senior Vice President and Global Head of Public Affairs, Science and Sustainability, Consumer Health Division, Bayer Minaud Dacius,
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How can business partner to help small retailers thrive? Lessons from the country-level

Hosted with AB InBev Across the value chains of companies like AB InBev, there is a network of millions of entrepreneurs – from small-scale
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How can we accelerate access to clean water, sanitation and hygiene?

Hosted with Reckitt The pandemic and effects of climate change are creating a challenging terrain with high levels of water stress impacting the most
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How can multi-stakeholder platforms drive engagement and behaviour change? Lessons from addressing health issues in East Africa

Hosted with Amref and the National Business Compact on Coronavirus Focused on learnings from an ambitious multi-stakeholder platform tackling COVID-19 in East Africa, this
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How can business help drive a more equitable society?

Hosted with Barclays Interviewees: Stella Tran, Senior Associate, Acumen America April Dominguez, CEO, Handsome App
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Business Fights Poverty Global Goals Summit 2023

Hybrid Summit (Online, New York, London, Nairobi). Three days of highly interactive events timed to coincide with the UN General Assembly (UNGA). This is
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Effective Partnerships: Key to Supporting Climate Vulnerable Communities

Practical Action’s purpose for almost 60 years has been to work with people living in poverty so that they can transform their lives and influence wider systems change so that the changes can be sustained and scaled. This now means that almost everything we do with communities, business or government includes dealing with the impacts of the climate crisis.
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To Build Thriving Cocoa Communities, Educate the Children

In cocoa-growing communities, advancing education pays dividends far beyond the classroom. Because the forces affecting the industry are so deeply intertwined, when children go to school and adults get training, the surrounding communities benefit in myriad ways. That’s why Cargill has been investing in schooling for children in cocoa growing communities – and the adults around them.
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Five Lessons from Ten Corporate-Charity Partnerships

At CARE Laurie Lee worked with ten of the UK’s largest FTSE100 companies, here he reflects on all of those experiences and distils the key lessons for companies to have a positive impact on poverty and the environment, and how companies, charities and governments can work well together.
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Air Pollution

Deeper Collaboration to Cut Value Chain Emissions: Are We Missing a Trick? 

Is it even possible to work in deeper, genuine partnership with suppliers on net zero alongside a parallel commercial relationship? Jenny Ekelund sees encouraging signs that it is, and shares three primary scope 3 partnership models that are emerging.
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Sustainable Supply Chains: Future Proofing by Farmer-Focusing

Gas prices. Food prices. Inflationary prices. Downward price pressure. Upward price pressure. Global supply chains. On and on it goes, with each new headline revealing a business environment stripped of its old rhythm. The environment feels particularly chaotic for any business dependent on functioning supply chains (i.e. virtually all of them).
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Companies Need to Wake up to the Urgency of Ending Deforestation in Supply Chains. Here’s How

There is one thing companies can do right now that will help the global community meet the interwoven targets of addressing the risks of nature loss and climate change: halt deforestation and ecosystem conversion in agricultural and forestry supply chains.
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Accelerating Development Entrepreneurs, with Richenda Van Leeuwen

How do you unlock the social impact potential of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs)? And how can development entrepreneurs maximise their success? Meet social impact pioneer Richenda Van Leeuwen, Executive Director of ANDE – The Aspen Network of Development Entrepreneurs.
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Becoming a Social Entrepreneur, with Kevin Mutiso

How to become a social entrepreneur? Meet social impact pioneer Kevin Mutiso. Kevin is a serial entrepreneur, whose businesses repeatedly get selected as top start-ups across Africa.
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Global Goals 2022 – Day 2_WEBINAR_AMREF

Our webinar explored “How can multi-stakeholder platforms drive engagement and behaviour change? Lessons from addressing health issues in East Africa,” discussing challenges and opportunities
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Rainforest Alliance Youth

If We Want to Meet the SDGs, We Need to Ditch Empty Rhetoric and Invest in Young People

María Fernanda Ghiso, Youth Inclusion expert at the Rainforest Alliance, marked International Youth Day (last month) by reminding organisations that they need to enable today’s youth to deliver tangible and sustainable change.
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Boosting Learning Gains for Children Living in Underserved Communities

An independent study led by a Nobel Prize-winning economist has confirmed some of the largest learning gains ever measured. The methods studied underpin the education of more than one million students supported by NewGlobe in classrooms every day, across Nigeria, Liberia, Rwanda, Kenya, Uganda and India.
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The sobering reality of the UN’s Global Goals

Remember the Sustainable Development Goals? It’s not a facetious question. Amid all the other corporate sustainability priorities of the past few years — net zero, ESG, the circular economy, social justice, resource constraints and all the rest — not to mention a seemingly never-ending drumbeat of political upheaval, economic uncertainty and a pandemic, the SDGs seem to have fallen off the business agenda
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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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