Health care is a unique service where compassion, altruism and economics combine in a single cause. By saving lives and fighting morbidity, we not only do something morally right but also help build more prosperous, productive communities.
Like rain that exposes a leaking roof, the coronavirus crisis has revealed unanticipated problems inherent in our dependence on global supply chains and amplified longstanding structural deficiencies in health systems around the world. We can see now that under-investment in public health in one country is a threat to global health security everywhere. Responses to health emergencies cannot succeed if any part of the world is left behind.
This op-ed details the role of multileralism through public-private partnerships in flattening the COVID-19 curve. Authored by Paul Polman, Siddharth Chatterjee and Myriam Sidibe, it discusses successful models in Kenya.
Good practices from in-country ‘partnership platforms’ that are evolving around the world. These platforms aim to catalyze and support new multi-stakeholder partnerships for sustainable development, often with a particular thematic or SDG-driven focus.
National Business Compact against COVID19 action toolkit on how to build and mobilize a Local coalition. This new Kenyan platform cofounded by the SDG Partnership Platform has mobilized key hygiene brands and communications platforms to work with the Kenyan Ministry of Health, the UN, Amref and other partners to distribute hygiene products, build handwashing facilities, and spread reliable and accurate public health information. It is also raising funds from citizens and businesses to make essential products available to the most in need.
This SDG Partnership guidebook to which the Platform contributed aims to help stakeholders to understand the value of multi-stakeholder partnerships and provide guidance on how to build robust and effective collaborations that can achieve extraordinary results for the SDGs.
