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The Business Innovation Facility is managed for DFID by PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP in alliance with International Business Leaders Forum, Accenture Development Partnerships and Imani Development.

 

 

PwC is the world’s largest professional services firm with over 160,000 people working across more than 150 countries.

Over the past decade, issues such as climate change, resource scarcity and poverty reduction have moved from the fringes of the business world to the top of the shareholder agenda. In response PwC has scaled up our capabilities in these areas, and we now have a global network of approaching 1,000 professionals focused on Sustainability & International Development challenges throughout the world. 

We now work with a wide range of businesses, donors & government agencies; the UN system; Corporate Foundations and NGOs to enable to the Private Sector to play a greater role in international development and poverty reduction. 

     
  The International Business Leaders Forum works with business, governments and civil society to enhance the contribution that companies can make to sustainable development. Founded by HRH The Prince of Wales, they are an independent, not-for-profit organisation currently supported by over 100 of the world’s leading businesses. IBLF provides strategic counsel to companies to enable them to understand and respond to the development challenges that they face, particularly when operating in transition and emerging economies. As well as managing a number of programmes that provide businesses with opportunities to directly enhance their impact on society, IBLF helps businesses connect with other organisations and develop successful cross-sector partnerships. Since 1990, IBLF has worked in over 90 countries. Their work benefits from long-term relationships with regional networks across the world, many of which IBLF has helped to establish or strengthen. Their current areas of work include raising sustainable business standards, improving prospects for enterprise and employment, and enabling companies to contribute to health and human development issues. The Partnering Initiative is one global programme of the International Business Leaders Forum that works with individuals, organisations, and systems to promote and develop partnerships for sustainable development - between business, government and civil society.
     
  Accenture Development Partnerships is a group within Accenture that provides strategic advice and technical project management support to nonprofit organizations, NGOs, foundations and donor organizations operating in the development sector, helping these organizations achieve social and economic development goals. Through a first-of-its-kind business model, Accenture Development Partnerships, designed to operate on a nonprofit basis, is able to deliver affordable world-class management and technology consulting services to these critical organizations while providing Accenture people with an unparalleled personal and professional opportunity as part of their careers.
     
  Imani Development started life in 1982 in Zimbabwe to assist in the process of economic growth and development in developing countries, particularly in Eastern and Southern Africa. In the 1990s they spread to other parts of Africa, establishing further group companies in Malawi, Mauritius, South Africa and Swaziland, and subsequently opened offices in East Africa in Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda. From their origins in Africa, they expanded to Australia and the United Kingdom in 2003 to further their work in other parts of the world. The Group head office is located in Pretoria, South Africa. Imani Development is a group of private, employee-owned consultancy firms, offering a range of services directed towards policy makers as well as the industrial, agricultural and commercial sectors and development agencies.
     
 

Intellecap is an advisory firm that seeks to catalyze the growth of businesses with positive social and environmental impacts particularly in emerging markets. Towards this end, it facilitates investments, provides consulting services, incubates high impact social enterprise models and builds knowledge and information around key work spaces. Combining its deep knowledge of development issues and operational realities at the grass roots with the mainstream consulting experience of its team members, it designs and implements strategies and processes that help create scale and impacts. Headquartered in India, it's team of 65 professionals works with corporations, social enterprises, equity and debt investors, governments, multilaterals and philanthropic organisations.

     
 

Renaissance Consultants Limited (RCL) is a unique consultancy service contractor that has provided strategic management guidance and consultation to both private businesses and development organizations for over four years now. RCL supports organizations in becoming more effective through improving human resources management and development procedures, designing targeted organizational development interventions and analyzing supply chains for identifying improvement opportunities and increasing their value proposition. With the core strength of HR, RCL has expertise in customized training, organizational restructuring, HR Policy development, compensation structure/ restructuring through comparator analysis, improving supply chain effectiveness, outsourced recruitment assessment, performance management system implementation, and all other management and administrative support functions. RCL provides services to both entrepreneurial start ups and matured organizations that are going through restructuring.

     
 

The Convention on Business Integrity (CBi) was established to empower business transactions in and within Nigeria against corruption and corrupt practices. The vision is to move the society towards a visible zero tolerance for corruption. It is hoped that in time, it will reposition the idea that Nigerian businesses are fraudulent and instead foster international relationships that can lead to meaningful exchange. Through visionary leadership, creativity and effective implementation of ideas, CBi empowers people, their transactions, systems and Institutions against corruption. The group head office is based in Lagos, Nigeria and includes the Commonwealth Business Council (CBC), Transparency International (TI), African Institute of Corporate Citizenship (AICC), and several private sector corporations as its partners.

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