Two new approaches to local partnership for better governance and greater investment

We’ve reached the end of the Practice of Partnership series. We’ve discussed how local partnership can help grow economies and businesses, strengthen democracy, and provide the drive and innovation to help countries meet their climate change goals. As we’ve seen, driving local partnership isn’t a one-sized-fits-all approach because local partners aren’t a monolith. They include local businesses, NGOs, civil society organizations, investors, corporations, and government bodies. That means partnership needs to work for partners on their terms, not just the ones that international development is accustomed to. Two projects from our portfolio that are looking at new ways to work with local entities on their terms are INVEST and Human Capital Development or HCD+.