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Cargill and CARE’s 50-year partnership offers insights and lessons for anyone looking to build an effective and long- term partnership. This Briefing Paper describes how the partnership has evolved from a primarily philanthropic relationship to one that, especially over the past 10 years, has genuinely drawn on the capabilities, skills and resources of the two partners.

This compendium of case studies featuring Public-Private Partnerships, this is a first attempt by the UNECE to generate interest in the SDGs through real projects that made a difference in their respective communities.

This paper provides a quantitative and qualitative presentation of USAID’s public-private partnerships and business sector participation in those PPPs. The analysis offered here is based on USAID’s PPP data set covering 2001-2014 and interviews with executives of 17 U.S. corporations that have engaged in PPPs with USAID.

This paper examines the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in relation to companies' business activities. It sets out many significant opportunities for all companies to play a role in the achievement of the SDGs.

This report draws on a qualitative study of youth microfranchising in the Tanzanian computer sales, service, and training sector, and identifies the challenges and advantages of a team-based approach to owning and operating a microfranchise business in the context of a developing country.

This paper discusses the relevance of innovation for development and several of the challenges that result for developing and emerging economies. It provides an overview of work conducted at the OECD Directorate of Science, Technology and Industry as well as an overview of work related to statistics and the availability of OECD databases on innovation that cover developing and emerging economies.

This report highlights issues, opportunities and challenges for public-private partnerships (PPPs) in fulfilling the rights to education for all - particularly the poor - in East Asia and the Pacific. It discusses the benefits and risks associated with PPPs, and essential factors for establishing successful partnerships.

This publication is the product of an international learning event where development NGOs and businesses from the North and the South reflected on their partnerships. Its backbone is a series of five Insights that highlight the main challenges of a partnership and how to address them. This report is written from the perspective of a development NGO, but targets professionals from both Civil Society- as well as Private Sector. It supports a better understanding of the intrinsic organizational and capacity issues that occur when a development NGO engages into a partnership with a business.

This paper discusses Microsoft’s experience of, and lessons to be learned from using cross-sector partnering approaches to support digital learning, and improving literacy and educational achievement across the world.

This report presents the results of the first phase of a multi-year programme to examine the role of public-private partnerships in education. It examines five ways through which public-private contracts can help countries meet education goals and it reviews the conceptual underpinnings for why such partnerships might contribute to achieving a country’s education goals, reviews empirical evidence, also offering some guidelines for operations.