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 […]
Project Nurture
Millions of smallholder farmers across Africa struggle to escape poverty. At the same time, food and beverage companies in the region can’t always source the agricultural products they need. Project Nurture– a partnership between the global nonprofit TechnoServe, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and The Coca-Cola Company–sought to address both these problems by integrating […]
MTV Shuga Campaign
MTV Shuga is a public-private partnership with MTV Staying Alive Foundation, Viacom International Media Networks (VIMN), U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Government of Nigeria and Elton John AIDS Foundation and Cardno. As a ground-breaking 360-degree transmedia demand creation campaign, MTV Shuga aims to improve the sexual and […]
Energize the Chain
Millions of children die annually from vaccine-preventable diseases. The problem is not the availability of vaccines, but the inability to provide effective vaccines due to vulnerability of the vaccine cold chain. EtC recognizes that the key to building an effective supply chain lies in building public-private partnerships that leverage the strengths and capacities of existing […]
Accenture and Upwardly Global Partnership
Upwardly Global (UpGlo) and Accenture are using technology to help skilled immigrants and refugees find sustainable employment and better integrate into the US economy. Two million skilled immigrants and refugees in the US are unemployed or in low-skill jobs despite advanced education and professional experience, and millions more globally face similar challenge. UpGlo has partnered […]
Sanitation Marketing Systems in Bangledesh
Though Bangladesh is nearly open defecation free, nearly half of latrines are unimproved or have broken water seals, which are needed to prevent the spread of disease. Resulting health losses are over 4 billion dollars, 5% of GDP (WSP, 2012). Central to this problem is the limited availability of quality latrine components and a belief […]
Partnering for Poultry
Feed the Future Partnering for Innovation (“Partnering for Innovation”), a USAID program, and EthioChicken, a fast growing company in Ethiopia, partnered to further develop EthioChicken’s marketing and sales in smallholder markets. The partnership focused on two regions of Ethiopia, Amhara and Tigray, served by EthioChicken’s primary production site, Mekelle Farm. EthioChicken imports parent stock of […]
Nourishing the Future
For over fifty years, CARE, a humanitarian organization, and Cargill have worked together to promote sustainability, food security, and nutrition by strengthening rural communities. Since 2008, this partnership has improved the lives of more than 300,000 people in eight countries in Africa, Asia, and Latin America. As part of this effort, in Central America CARE […]