Human Security Business Partnership (HSBP): An innovative framework for working in complex environments

The aim of the meeting is to introduce human security as a value-added approach for Spanish companies in addressing risks in conflict and crisis-affected environment, and promote a new model of Human Security Business Partnerships to facilitate constructive collaborations with the public sector and civil society .

The Human Security Business Partnership Framework is an operational tool which offers guidance to corporate decision-makers on how to contribute to integrated and sustainable development in challenging locations, and towards achievement of the SDGs. The aim of the Framework is to mobilize effective and systematic co-operation between business and other key stakeholders at the local level, including communities, governments and civil society organisations. In contrast to traditional PPPs, HSBPs offer a novel model of multi-stakeholder association using the human security approach, which seeks to identify and enable positive interactions between diverse actors on the basis of common interests and risk sharing in joi…