2007, International Business Leaders Forum (IBLF)
The aim of Crossing Borders is to highlight how business practices contribute to local development solutions and how business can grow more sustainably through profitable and successful partnerships with communities.
Leaders from business, often accompanied by leaders from other sectors of society, visit business-supported community projects around the world. The purpose is to enable these leaders to experience at first hand how partnerships with local organisation - tackling a particular development issue - can contribute to business success and sustainable international development.
IBLF launched Crossing Borders in 2005 and in its first year the chief executives of nine multinational companies, nearly 150 senior, regional and national business leaders and more than 50 NGOs and other organisations have visited or been involved in project visits in 12 countries around the world.
The programme is supported by the U.S. Agency for International Development's Global Development Alliance (USAID/GDA) as part of its drive to develop and integrate a public-private partnership approach into its work and mandate.
