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U.S. Department of State Office of Global Partnerships
The Secretary’s Office of Global Partnerships (S/GP) strives to advance the Department of State’s top foreign policy priorities through private sector engagement. S/GP has worked with over 1,600 partners and mobilized over $1.5 billion of public and private sector resources to enhance diplomacy and development outcomes.
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CocoaLink
CocoaLink is an innovative partnership between The Hershey Company, the Ghana Cocoa Board, and the World Cocoa Foundation. CocoaLink connects cocoa farmers to government agriculture experts and the latest information on modern farming techniques through a two-way mobile phone exchange.
U.S. Global Development Lab Partnering to Accelerate Entrepreneurship (PACE) Initiative & Vilcap Investments: Catalyzing Investment to Democratize Global Entrepreneurship
The private sector has significant potential to accelerate development outcomes by investing in businesses that address social or environmental issues. However, less than 10 percent of such impact investments is committed to seed-stage or venture-stage businesses, creating a “pioneer gap.” A critical reason for this gap is that investment funds rely on management fees to […]
TV White Space Supported Fisherfolk Registration in the Danajon Reef
A public-private partnership between Microsoft, USAID and the Philippines’ Department of Science and Technology and Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources is piloting, for the first time in the Philippines, a new technology that taps unused television broadcast frequencies (or “TV white space”) to extend high-speed, wireless Internet access to remote parts of the Philippines. Under this […]
Madagascar: Implementing Improved Water and Sanitation Services to Low-Income Communities
Shortage of safe, reliable water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) services inhibits economic development, particularly in low-income areas. Utility providers often lack proven and sustainable models, and thus local communities suffer from inconsistent and unreliable service. To address this issue, The Coca-Cola Africa Foundation (TCCAF) worked with leading NGO Water and Sanitation for the Urban Poor […]
The Nature Conservatory – The Dow Chemical Company Collaboration
Nature provides benefits like clean air and water – often called ecosystem services – upon which everyone depends. However, these benefits are often not considered when companies make business decisions. Recognizing this, The Dow Chemical Company (Dow) and The Nature Conservancy (TNC) partnered to help Dow and the business community realize, value, and incorporate nature […]
Partners in Food Solutions Partnership
Nearly two-thirds of the workforce in sub-Saharan Africa earn a living from agriculture, but many struggle to escape poverty due to a lack of stable, profitable markets. At the same time, one quarter of the region’s people suffers from undernourishment. Recognizing that local food processors can meet both the market needs of farmers and the […]
Sustainable Living Beyond Borders-Transforming Lives via Health and Wellness
In emerging countries such as Pakistan, a large number of individuals work informally in corporate value chains and have been subjected to abuse, labor exploitation, poor, unsanitary working conditions, and low wages. In collaboration with NAYA JEEVAN, Unilever has enrolled thousands of participants into “Sustainable Living Beyond Borders.” By involving both employers and beneficiaries, this initiative […]
SAPARM: Satellite Assisted Pastoral Resource Management
Every day, millions of African pastoralists live on the verge of survival searching for green pasture for their animals in the face of extreme drought and climate change. With support from the U.S. Agency for International Development’s (USAID) Development Innovation Ventures (DIV) and Google, PCI provides maps generated by satellite data to pastoralists to help […]