The Centre for Partnerships for Development (CAD in Spanish) promotes cross-sector partnerships through globalized knowledge networks responding to the challenges of human and sustainable development.
Given the increasing complexity of global challenges to development and the methodological deficiencies for working in an interactive way between different sectors, CAD has created a wide network of international experts in partnership management to face these challenges.
CAD experts design methodologies to advise governments, international organizations, private corporations and civil society organizations, promoting partnerships as interaction systems that guarantee the maximization of resources and permit the achievement of results in the development goals.
Likewise, CAD is a research centre conducting in-depth investigations on the whole lifecycle of partnerships for development. It provides training on how to identify, set-up, implement, manage, monitor and evaluate strategic partnerships and development cooperation programmes. CAD raises awareness on the need to work in partnerships as a way to respond to human challenges through the design of communication strategies and the organization of international conferences.
Its areas of specialization include international development, corporate social responsibility and local economic development, especially focusing on SMEs in developing countries, inclusive business and social innovation, Base of the Pyramid approaches, climate change adaptation and green economy. CAD is experienced in strategic design of projects, implementation of solutions for sustainable development, evaluation and impact monitoring, development goals quantification and communication management.
CAD also collaborates closely with the Base of the Pyramid Laboratory (Laboratorio Base de la Pirámide), an international network of research institutions that promotes poverty reduction through the development of innovative, sustainable and inclusive business solutions.
WHAT CAD DOES:
CAD works through partnerships for development with all the sectors involved to promote improvement in human development and sustainable development. Its objective is to contribute sustainable solutions to the main global challenges. The sectors with which CAD works are: International organizations, Civil society organizations, Universities and academic centers, Philanthropic organizations, Strategic analysis, Research
CAD cooperates with the sectors described through the following services:
Strategic Analysis
CAD carries out strategic analysis to advise the design, fund collection, implementation and assessment of partnerships, emphasizing the achievement of development goals and the contribution of solutions to the main global challenges.
CAD advises international organizations, governments, private corporations and interest groups in a wide range of areas related to development partnerships which promote human and sustainable development.
Research
CAD develops investigation reports which deal with development partnerships, emphasizing the main challenges associated with sustainable development, social responsibility of corporations and cooperation for development, developing thorough analyses of their implications and proposing creative solutions and action plans to achieve them.
Training
CAD offers training courses to propose tools which are helpful for managing different aspects related to public-private partnerships, sustainable development, cooperation for development, strategic communication and cross-sector dialogue between social agents. CAD cooperates with organizations coordinating seminars, designing materials and conducting courses and workshops on these subjects.
Raising Awareness and Events Management
CAD raises awareness and promotes strategic partnerships for development through initiative management and promoting the organization and coordination of events. Likewise, CAD helps organizations create communication strategies which promote social and environmental initiatives consistently and in such a way that they're comprehensible to the groups to which they are addressed.
