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This Guidebook illuminates the critical part played by brokers in multi sector partnerships as both process managers and behind the scenes leaders. It focuses on partnership brokering – that essential intermediary function that enables partners to work well together and ensure the maximum effectiveness of their partnership.

Este libro presenta diferentes casos de colaboración entre el sector privado y organizaciones de la sociedad civil, donde se logran alianzas que producen utilidades que benefician directamente a la comunidad. Retoma casos de Brasil, Argentina, Chile, México, Perú, Centroamérica, y Colombia.

This report discusses the experiences of a 'KATALYST' project intervention within the vegetable sector in Rangpur, Bangladesh that is addressing the issue of 'low productivity' by focusing on the training of agricultural input retailers and the development of “embedded services” within the input supply chain. It outlines the analysis that underpins the intervention, gives details of what was done and how, and highlights initial changes arising from it.

This report examines how public-private partnerships (PPPs) can best be harnessed to extend the reach and effectiveness of aid to address international and national development challenges. It explores the role of PPPs in mobilising resources for basic sanitation, health as well as water and sanitation.

This report looks at the Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition, its structure, function, and activities, and plans to further partner with corporations and multilateral agencies. It addresses the question of whether a multi-sectoral partnership is a useful framework for addressing micronutrient deficiencies and what some of the challenges and lessons have been thus far.

This article on Creating Sustainable Local Enterprise Networks describes how successful inclusive businesses often include networks of companies, not-for-profit organizations and communities.

This article argues that multi-national corporations need to develop new strategies and partnerships in the informal economy in order to operate successfully in new markets at the base of the pyramid.

This paper introduces the Shell Foundation and its way of working. It provides insights on how the private sector and the International Development Community (IDC) can most effectively catalyse equitable, self-sustaining development in poor countries. It describes the core features of Shell Foundation's approach and uses case examples to illustrate the outcomes, concluding with a set of propositions for wider debate and consideration by the international development and business communities.

Este artículo presenta un marco conceptual destinado a a la explicación teórica y práctica de estrategias de mercado que pueden beneficiar a las personas de bajos ingresos. Para esto se desarrolla un mosaico de nueve soluciones explicadas a través de ejemplos de emprendimientos o empresas que las aplican.

This study looks at Unilever in Indonesia and examines its business activities for their direct and indirect socio-economic impacts on the poor. It attempts to improve the understanding of the relationship between big business and poverty reduction, and it suggests that the extent to which the wealth created by business can reduce poverty is determined by many factors, an industry's operating structure and the values and strategies of individual companies within it are critical factors.