SNV values partnerships – at a corporate level, as well as in regions and in countries – as an important way to improve the outreach and critical mass of our advisory practice. Partnerships are also a vital component of SNV’s contribution to achieving the Millennium Development Goals.

Our choice of partners is driven by the desire to increase impact so that we can scale up, replicate and learn. Our partners are selected on the basis that they complement SNV’s approach to development and work within best practice models.

We leverage aid provided by the government of the Netherlands, as well as by multilateral and bilateral partners. Some of our partnerships focus on new players who promote economic growth and employment opportunities.

Our collaboration with the World Business Council for Sustainable Development, for example, brings together leading corporate innovators who recognise that inclusion of the poor is good for business.

While much has been achieved in the development of the SNV partnership approach, we know that we can do even more.

To ensure greater effectiveness we need to continue to set clear benchmarks for success and monitor implementation (which is now done in the field) and to innovate in the rapidly changing environment in which we operate.