First published in Sustainability 10 September 2019, 11, 4947. https://doi.org/10.3390/su11184947 The following is an extract. The full version can be accessed below. Recent scientific reports highlight the urgent
First published in Sustainability Science (2022) The sustainable development goals (SDGs) offer a broad, holistic framework of interdependent economic, social, and environmental objectives to enable integrated
Trust and believe in the power of diverse, professional aggregation towards sustainable development, and make space to collaborate without discrimination.
“The growing magnitude and complexity of socioeconomic problems facing societies throughout the world transcend the capacities of individual organizations and sectors to deal with them
Like many at the start of the pandemic, I found myself awake at night feeling insecure about the future. I had recently started a new
NPI is one of the flagship initiatives launched under former USAID Administrator Mark Green. While this is not the first time that USAID has reached out to new partners, there are several key differences with NPI. Most importantly, NPI includes outreach to international NGOs and consulting firms, faith-based organizations, and the private sector.
People in Syria benefit from partnering as much as the rest of the world benefits from partnering with them.
The world responded to the pandemic with a shared sense of extreme urgency. It is this urgency that has inspired such an incredible global response, including new and unlikely partnerships to invent and distribute effective vaccines around the world.
Some problems are so big that they cannot be solved by throwing money at them or solved in more effective ways. This seems at once both obvious, and a bitter pill to swallow. There is no such silver bullet.
The Covid-19 pandemic, and the COVAX Facility have highlighted the increasing need for effective, sustainable partnerships. We have all become more familiar with new communication and collaboration platforms, but they are only a first step towards breaking down distance and misinterpretations. And they don’t guarantee the sovereignty of vulnerable communities, or the high principle of “localisation”…
Interviewed by Emily Ghassemi, Partnership Researcher, Impact17 Who are you? I’m Beris Gwynne. I have worked as a diplomat and aid official and in the
Many people have said that the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic threatens to reverse progress made towards achieving the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals. In the article “SDG17:
Impact17 believes that multisector partnerships that genuinely involve stakeholders are the most effective. We know that community engagement is not easy. However, it is vital
It’s a given that collaboration is a potent accelerator for progress, particularly when it comes to delivering change in solving other big global problems, such
Partnership is the new buzzword. All aspiring politicians, business tycoons, or institutional leaders must, at the very least, envelope their agenda in the soft language
Photo credit: Laura Eldon/Oxfam People always need to be at the centre of humanitarian response. They are not. That is not good enough. Imagine a
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