P4G Partnerships

About this project

The UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) have become a globally recognized standard to align action, including between public and private-sector organizations. Meeting the SDGs will require solutions that the private sector can deliver. Residents of low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) represent a large and growing market for SDG-aligned business innovation. Businesses are in the midst of a paradigm shift from an industrial era where the business bore no or minimal penalty for environmental and social externalities, to a post-industrial era where businesses work in partnership with government to provide social and environmental value that drives the economic growth of people living in the world’s poorest and often most climate-vulnerable communities. Developing countries carry a disproportionate burden of the negative economic and social impacts of extreme climate events. High-income countries contribute the most to climate change, while communities in developing countries carry a much higher burden compared to their contributions to the climate challenge. For example, the World Bank estimates that 74 of the world’s poorest countries account for less than one tenth of global greenhouse gas emissions. Meanwhile, these countries—along with communities around the world who are in the same economic bracket— are the most vulnerable to extreme weather patterns, natural hazards and food and water shortages. In the past 10 years alone, they have experienced eight times43 as m…

Published by

World Resources Institute · International NGO

Countries

Indonesia, South Africa, Colombia, Vietnam, Kenya, Ethiopia

Sectors

Small and medium-sized enterprises (SME) development

Focus

Gender equality · Also contributesClimate mitigation · Also contributesClimate adaptation · Also contributes

Funded by

Netherlands - Ministry of Foreign Affairs

Accountable

WRI Global Office

Published by World Resources Institute to the International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI), last updated 27 Mar 2025 and imported automatically. IATI identifier: US-EIN-521257057-BUS_P4G_NL 2nd phase.

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