UNICEF's corporate partnerships

How UNICEF selects its partners

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NIGERIA: Woman teacher helps small girls with schoolwork, in Ibadan, capital of the south-western state of Oyo. UNICEF provides school supplies to this and many other schools in the area.

UNICEF’s interactions with the corporate sector range from designing multi-stakeholder partnerships to address specific problems confronting children, to mobilizing support for UNICEF’s programmes, to leveraging the assets of the private sector to advance the cause of children worldwide.

Often an introduction to UNICEF’s work occurs by building an alliance that meets both the private sector partner’s philanthropic and marketing needs and extend UNICEF's abilities to address the pressing needs of children. Corporations support UNICEF in many ways. For instance, they can provide:

- financial support;
- research and development assistance;
- technical knowledge;
- access to logistic networks; and
- extensive communications channels.

Companies interested in the principles that guide UNICEF’s alliances with business can learn more by accessing UNICEF’s Guidelines and Manual for Working with the Business Community (word). Alliances can take many forms including programmatic collaborations, advocacy and fundraising support or contributions-in-kind.

The development of long-term alliances is important to UNICEF, and we partner with many of the world’s top corporations on mutually beneficial, strategic initiatives.  Our corporate partners demonstrate a deep commitment to social responsibility, and are guided by core values that fit with UNICEF’s programme, advocacy, and fundraising goals. 

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