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The Body Shop runs a campaign to support the Helen Bamber Foundation's fight against human trafficking
In 2007, The Body Shop UK ran a campaign called "Trafficking is Torture" to support the Helen Bamber Foundation. The campaign's primary objective was to persuade the UK government to ratify a convention to protect the estimated 4,000 girls each year within the country who are victims of human...
Body Shop partners with Women's Aid to prevent domestic violence
Women’s Aid have been working in partnership with The Body Shop since 2004, as part of their long-running ‘Stop Violence in the Home’ Campaign. The Campaign aims to raise funds to develop projects that tackle the problem of domestic violence, and promote awareness of the issue amongst Body Shop...
Body Shop & MTV campaign against HIV/AIDS
As part of The Body Shop's ongoing commitment to HIV and AIDS awareness, the company has teamed up with MTV to launch annual campaigns to raise awareness amongst young people worldwide about HIV and AIDS and to raise funds for The Staying Alive Foundation, an NGO that supports grass-roots youth...
Office Depot partnered with Feed The Children to distribute food and educational supplies
Since 2004, Feed the Children's association with Office Depot and the Office Depot Foundation has made a difference in the lives of students, communities and individuals across the United States and around the world.
Business-NGO partnership channels football shirts to children in South Africa
In 2008, World Emergency Relief UK (WER) set up an exciting partnership with Johnstone's Paint Trophy to raise funds and collect football shirts to send to football-loving youngsters in the deprived Paarl East Region of South Africa. The campaign, named 'One Common Goal', was launched by former...
Chevron subsidiary partners with local charity to engage impoverished communities in Angola
Search for Common Ground, an organisation dedicated to conflict transformation, has been working in Angola's oil-rich enclave of Cabinda since October 2006. In a private-public partnership co-funded by USAID and Chevron's local oil subsidiary, SFCG has collaborated with nine impoverished fishing...
Piloting innovative social assessment in a Colombian oil field
In 2005, Occidental Andina, LLC, a subsidiary of Occidental Petroleum Corporation (Oxy) collaborated with Ecopetrol S.A., a Colombian state oil company, and International Alert, a London-based conflict resolution and peace building NGO, to develop a socially responsible enhanced oil recovery...
Eastman Kodak and The Nature Conservancy partner on an innovative program to learn about local needs in China
Since 2001, Eastman Kodak has partnered with The Nature Conservancy on an innovative program that provides cameras and film to remote villagers in order to learn about local needs in southwestern China. Called Photovoice, the project is an integral part of The Nature Conservancy's effort with local...
WIZZIT reaching the Unbanked of South Africa
WIZZIT is a South African company that has developed a mobile phone based banking service for unbanked and underbanked communities.
TEDCOR fosters urban renewal in the local community
Tedcor is an innovative and enterprising waste management company based in South Africa that offers integrated solutions for the collection, recovery and disposal of waste. Tedcor has been in the market for 12 years, working in close partnership with local communities to promote a clean healthy...
Better Factories Cambodia partnership creates industry standards
Better Factories Cambodia represents a convergence of common interests of the clothing industry, international buyers, of the desires of western consumers for sweat-shop free products, and for more and better jobs in one of the poorest countries of this world. Better Factories Cambodia is managed...
Building NGO capacity for pipeline monitoring and audit in Azerbaijan
In Azerbaijan, BP and the Open Society Institute-Assistance Foundation are working together to support national NGOs' capacity development through facilitated monitoring and audit of the Baku-Ceyhan-Tbilisi and the South Caucasus Pipeline projects.
Human rights training of judges in Nigeria
A three-year partnership between Statoil and the Legal Defence and Assistance Project (LEDAP) is introducing Sharia judges in northern Nigeria to human rights issues and legislation.
Eni E&P Division and Shell Italia launched biodiversity project
Eni E&P Division and Shell Italia E&P established a working group that, in 2003, launched the AgriBioDiversity project, in collaboration with Fauna and Flora International and the World Conservation Union and others, for biodiversity monitoring in the ecologically sensitive area of Val...
ExxonMobil and NetMark partner to distribute & promote anti-malaria bednets
In 2002, the ExxonMobil Africa Fuels Marketing Group teamed with AED/NetMark to set up the Help Us Help programme. The programme seeks to reduce the burden of malaria in sub-Saharan Africa by increasing the commercial supply of and public demand for insecticide-treated bednets.
NIKE Village Development Project
Nike in partnership with the Population & Community Development Association (PDA) and local villages, established the ‘NIKE Village Development Project’ in Thailand.
Unilever and WWF establish certification for sustainable fisheries
The MSC Standard by the Marine Stewardship Council is the only internationally recognised set of environmental principles for assessing fisheries to establish whether they are well managed and sustainable. The MSC is an independent, global, non-profit organisation which was set up to find a...
Greenpeace and Marks & Spencer: Sustainable seafood procurement
Marks & Spencer (M&S) has adopted a Policy on Sustainable Sourcing of Fisheries Products, which applies to all seafood sold, including fish used as an ingredient. M&S came top of Greenpeace UK's Recipe for Disaster, a study of UK supermarkets, ranking them by their seafood policies.
Developing hybrid diesel-electric delivery trucks
In 2000, FedEx Express and Environmental Defense Fund struck an alliance to develop a delivery truck that dramatically decreases emissions while increasing fuel economy. The result was a diesel-electric hybrid, an ideal application for hybrid technology, given the frequent stopping and starting of...
WWF and IKEA Conservation Partnership
IKEA and WWF began a co-operation in 2002 to jointly promote responsible forestry in priority regions around the world. Together the two organizations have planned and implemented a series of projects in China, Russia, Bulgaria, Romania, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. The projects are important...