We build long-term relationships with strategic partners to help create sustainable futures for the world’s poorest people. We work with socially conscious, pioneering organisations to develop joint programmes, test new ideas and use the power of business to find innovative solutions to major global challenges.
A corporate partnership with Practical Action benefits both our work and the partner business. It allows us to tap into valuable innovation, expertise, scale, and funding support. And for our partners, it’s the opportunity to transform communities, enhance their reputation and undertake critical research and development.
We’re proud of our track record of working with innovative strategic partners, both small and large, to deliver substantial social and business impact.
The Zurich Insurance Group has supported Practical Action since 2004. In response to an increase in severe flooding around the world, Zurich launched the Zurich Flood Resilience Alliance in 2013. The Zurich Flood Resilience Alliance is funded by Zurich Insurance through the Z Zurich Foundation.
The Alliance brings together the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, the Wharton Business School’s Risk Management and Decision Processes Centre, and Practical Action. The partnership is supporting us to build community flood resilience in Bangladesh, Peru and Nepal through the Zurich Flood Resilience Programme.
Ian Derbyshire
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Tel: +44 (0)1926 634 527
Our partnership with the IKEA Foundation is enabling us to work with an initial group of 6,000 young people in Kenya to help them earn a decent income from sustainable farming and agricultural businesses. Smallholder farmers face many challenges.
They struggle to access fertile land to grow their crops and don’t have the money to invest in seeds and equipment.
Poor farming conditions lead to harvests that are too small to enable farmers to feed their families and sell their produce for income. Through improving access to knowledge, skills and resources, the project is aiming over the longer term to impact the lives of more than 80,000 young people.
Ian Derbyshire
Email: [email protected]
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Tel: +44 (0)1926 634 527
The H&M Foundation is a non-profit global foundation, privately funded by the Stefan Persson family, founders and main owners of H&M group. Its mission is to drive long lasting positive change and improve living conditions by investing in people, communities and innovative ideas.
Funding from the H&M Foundation is allowing us to enable slum communities in Choudwar, India, to improve their health through better access to safe drinking water and sanitation services and safely managed faecal sludge. The key to the success of this project will be the new faecal sludge treatment plant, the first of its kind in the state. This will provide for the safe disposal of sludge collected from pit latrines in the city and will serve as a model for other communities and small towns in the state as well as in the country.
Ruth Baker
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Tel: +44 (0)1926 634 524
The Grundfos Foundation collaborates with international partners to provide access to drinking water to the world’s poorest, primarily in rural communities and forgotten refugee camps. Our work with the Foundation will help 72,000 people in pastoralist communities in north-west Kenya access drinking water for themselves and for their livestock.
The programme will also strengthen water governance and management systems for rural solar-powered water systems. Enhancing access to water will enable communities to cope with increasing droughts and climate change, improve household, maternal and child hygiene and health, empower women and improve food security through more productive agriculture.
Ian Derbyshire
Email: [email protected]
uk
Tel: +44 (0)1926 634 527