NGO-Corporate Partnerships and Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR)

ESD is working with companies, business associations, and Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) to extend access to reproductive health and family planning (RH/FP) services to the poor and underserved in developing countries. ESD has found that private companies are often interested in collaborating, given appropriate opportunities. ESD provides assistance in: 

• Developing and brokering NGO-corporate partnerships
• Building the business case for corporate investment in RH/FP and health
• Designing and implementing workplace RH/FP programs
• Building the capacity of NGO and private practitioners
• Integrating RH/FP into the CSR activities of companies and business networks

Corporate Social Responsibility is an approach ESD uses to create sustainable projects with NGOs and the private sector that link into the growing interest of corporations to demonstrate good corporate citizenship.   

NGO-corporate partnerships are a cost-effective way to introduce and expand RH/FP services at the community level through fee-for-service and other arrangements between a company and an NGO. Such partnerships strengthen the financial sustainability of the NGO and provide an affordable way for companies to address the health needs of their workers. 

To date, ESD has partnerships with: 

• Unilever Tea Tanzania
• Bayer Schering Pharma
• Business for Social Responsibility, the largest CSR business membership organization in the world
• The Global Business Coalition on HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria
• The David and Lucile Packard Foundation
• Verité, a leading workplace monitoring NGO
• The Medical Women Association of Tanzania
• Health Solutions International, Inc., a workers’ health consulting firm

ESD builds on the work Meridian Group International, Inc. and Pathfinder International started in ESD’s predecessor project, CATALYST Consortium, which designed innovative corporate partnerships in Latin America, Egypt, and Asia.