Coalitions
We catalyse collaborations and co-creation for sustainable impact by creating Coalitions for Impact. We bring together parties who excel when their unexpected complementarities are united within a collaborative effort. Coalitions for Impact stakeholders find each other in unexpected formations, unified by a shared mission based on a sustainable business proposition. Motivated by a shared sense of responsibility, coalition partners join forces to enhance societal resilience and local empowerment in the identified focus region.
Existing coalitions
Agri supply chain improvement in Iraq
Iraq
To improve the livelihood of Iraq based farmers through needs-based agri supply chain optimisation
ABC restaurants, Cordaid, Hatenboer-Water, Hoogendoorn, Jiffy Group, Rijk Zwaan
Youth empowerment, psycho-social support & job and life skills training in Lebanon
Lebanon (potential scaling to Jordan and Iraq)
Support youth engagement and provide youth with life skills and job opportunities through training, apprenticeship, and other strategies
Sounds of Change, Spark, War Child
A new generation of justice leadership in Iraq
Iraq
Enable access to justice innovation to a future generation of justice practitioners.
Asser Institute, HiiL, Human Security Collective (HSC)
Access to finance for sme’s in jordan
Jordan
Enable access to finance, financial literacy education and mentoring programs for SMEs in Jordan.
ING, Spark
Improve livelihoods of vulnerable women through skills & economic development in Lebanon
Lebanon
Work together to provide vulnerable women with a source of income to provide their livelihoods
March Lebanon, Unilever
What is a Coalition for Impact?
Innovative finance
A Coalition for Impact strives to create a sustainable business case including innovative impact finance mechanisms for self-sufficient continuation.
Win, win, win
A Coalition for Impact creates added value for all stakeholders involved. As one coalition partner puts it: ‘ Sometimes you go and speak with the father, but you end up marrying the daughter’.
Learning whilst doing
The Coalitions for Impact are unique and unprecedented. There is no blueprint. On a basis of trust and shared intention they explore and develop continuously.
Local context
Thorough understanding of the local context and local engagement are pre-requisite to lasting and meaningful results.
Less talk, more impact
Coalition partners are action heroes. They don’t sit together and talk but are action driven and focused on the realisation of concrete results and impact.
Power of diversity, 1+1=3
Multidisciplinary diversity forms the core strength of each of the coalitions. Centred around a thematic focus, coalition partners bring in their complementary expertise.
Common purpose, own interest
Coalition partners find each other in a shared ambition to solve societal challenges. It is their conviction that this can be aligned with their organisational interests
Updates
Coalitions Booster Sessions
From the 18th to the 27th of May, the Coalitions for Impact Booster Sessions for Iraq, Lebanon, Tunisia and Jordan took place, organised by Society Impact and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Thought Leaders and Action Heroes
Iraq, Lebanon and Jordan have been profoundly affected by the conflict in Syria. In order to help mitigate the spill-over effects, all three countries have been designated by the Dutch Government as focus countries for intensified international cooperation. Motivated by a shared sense of responsibility, it is time to join forces.
Coalitions for Impact official Side Event Global Entrepreneurship Summit 2019
The Netherlands and the United States jointly organised the Global Entrepreneurship Summit (GES), at the World Forum in The Hague on 4 and 5 June 2019.
Pressure cooker sessions
The Coalitions for Impact launch gathering on January 29th yielded a substantial reservoir of potential coalitions. In order to take these potential coalitions to the next level, Society Impact organised pressure cooker sessions. These sessions were designed to spark inspiration, identify common purpose and define respective shared missions.
Coalitions for Impact kick off!
On January 29th the Coalitions for Impact launch gathering took place; an unprecedented gathering of public and private organisations, NGO’s, philanthropist funds, knowledge institutions and social impact financiers.