Catalysing Growth Through Collaborations between Private Sector and Philanthropy

The evolving development sector landscape has increased the alignment of interests between the private sector and the philanthropic sector actors, unlocking innovations across key impact areas. Strategic partnerships between private sector entities (from large corporates to SMEs) and philanthropic ecosystem offers opportunities to access new resources, skills and expertise, access to local institutions and innovative financing mechanisms to catalyse innovations.

The session aims to bring together experts in the philanthropic and private sector to exchange knowledge on key levers to successful private and philanthropic partnerships, and explore the scope of mainstream business value chains, sustainability and ESG in partnership with expertise from the philanthropic ecosystem for inclusive economic growth and social development.

Key Takeaways:

• Active engagement and participation in the discourse on the confluence of private capital and philanthropy
• Deeper understanding of the important role of each stakeholder and ways to crowd-in commercial capital to scale impact, exploring new models emerging in sustainable development finance
• Identify opportunities in the post pandemic world to strengthen the sustainability and ESG agenda
• Knowledge exchange on how to ensure and enable sustainability across the supply chain, how to leverage blended financing to create shared value, and how to collaborate to achieve sustainability outcomes, etc.