Humanitarian Coalition

Published purpose

This project seeks to identify more concrete areas for collaboration between Canadian non-governmental organizations and Canadian corporations in order to enhance Canada’s overall capacity to respond to humanitarian crises. At present, Canadian humanitarian and private sector actors have very limited contact with each other and little common understanding of each other’s abilities and motivations. This lack of understanding and engagement has made the exploration of mutually beneficial partnership opportunities more difficult. Project activities include: (1) producing cross-sector research supporting collaboration between Canadian non-governmental organizations and corporations for humanitarian response; (2) holding meetings and workshops with a range of humanitarian and private sector stakeholders; (3) developing and launching a cross-sector platform model; and (4) facilitating planning and negotiations for one to two innovative cross-sector partnerships initiatives.