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31 May 2013

Author:
Francis West, Save the Children & Priya Madina, GlaxoSmithKline, on Business Fight Poverty blog

Francis West & Priya Madina: GSK & Save the Children Partnership - From Ambition to Action

[T]he new strategic partnership between Save the Children and GlaxoSmithKline...[aims] to help to save one million children’s lives. It is an ambition that will only be realised by going beyond the traditional NGO-private sector partnership model based on fundraising, and by harnessing and scaling up the complementary skills and expertise that sit within our respective organisations...[C]ynicism [about GSK's motives]...understates the remarkable journey that GSK has experienced under the leadership of Sir Andrew Witty. The adoption of a mixed business model, which accepts longer term returns for certain areas of the business, is central to the company’s trajectory...This does not mean that our organisations will always agree on everything...but this dialogue will ultimately be to the benefit of the partnership, guided by the firm belief that we can achieve more for the world’s most vulnerable people by working together, rather than apart.