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1. About Us
Business Partnerships for Global Goals (BP4GG) is a UK Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) programme which invests in partnerships with multinational companies (MNCs) to test and scale shared value initiatives that support delivery of the Global Goals. The programme focusses on providing immediate support to vulnerable people to improve their access to incomes, jobs and markets, as well as catalysing responsible business practices in the longer-term. BP4GG is managed by Mott MacDonald Ltd (MML), in a consortium with Accenture Development Partnerships (ADP) and the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED). The BP4GG programme was initiated in February 2020 and immediately pivoted to a rapid COVID-19 response facility, the COVID-19 Vulnerable Supply Chains Facility (VSCF), to respond to the impact the pandemic had on vulnerable people in the agriculture and garments supply chains. By July
2020, the Facility had successfully joined forces with 20 international and UK retail brands and INGOs to implement eight partnership projects that would provide immediate relief to vulnerable workers in the two acutely affected supply chains (agriculture and garments), whilst working to increase their resilience to similar future shocks and leveraging business’s outreach and influence to ‘build back better’. By the time the BP4GG ended on December 5, 2021, the Facility supported 296 suppliers of its brands and retail partners, across seven countries- Bangladesh, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Myanmar, Tanzania, and Zimbabwe, and two continents. In doing so, it reached 1.4 million people with economic, social, health and environmental initiatives, of which 63% are living below $5.50 a day. Of these, more than 789,000 (55%) are women. Through the dissemination activities that the Facility and its partners invested in and implemented, the learning and successful models tested under BP4GG VSCF have spread much wider, going beyond seven countries and two continents.
Key Programme Information Contract Purchase Order No.
10023
Programme duration
22 months (27 February 2020 – 5 December 2021)
Donor
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO)
Number of initiatives funded
8 with country or multi-country focus
Sectors
2 (agriculture & garments)
Duration of the FCDO funding period for initiatives
12 months
Location of the initiatives
Kenya, Bangladesh, Myanmar, Ghana, Zimbabwe, Tanzania and Ethiopia.
Cost the initiatives funded
£4.9m (of which £2.5 from partners, £2.4m from FCDO)
Facility Manager
Mott MacDonald UK
Office Location
Mott MacDonald House, 8-10 Sydenham Road Croydon CR0 2EE, UK
Our Partners • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • •
Arco Awaj Foundation CARE International Co-op Coventry University Mi Hub Ethical Trading Initiative Fairtrade Africa Fairtrade Foundation Flamingo Horticulture Flower Hub Flower Watch FNET Girl Determined GoodWeave International Impactt IPL Marks & Spencer MM Flowers Mondelez International Minor Weir and Willis Monsoon Accessorize Morrisons New Look Partner Africa Practical Solutions International Primark Proctor & Gamble Sainsbury’s Tesco Union Roasted VF Corporation Waitrose Women Win Women Working Worldwide Xpol
Panda Flower Farm, Kenya Photo credit: Fairtrade
