Note from the Project Director

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 Donor

22 months (27 February 2020 – 5 December 2021) 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 Facility Manager Office Location

£4.9m (of which £2.5 from partners, £2.4m from FCDO) Mott MacDonald UK

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