Cases
Our work with particular organizations has been foundational for us and holds lessons beyond what the report alone can summarize. To enhance the summaries and highlights included in the chapters, here are additional case profiles. These serve as a vital counterpoint to our more general material, and we invite you to contribute cases of your own.
Environmental NGOs, First Nations communities, forestry companies, and governments create multistakeholder agreements to protect 80 million hectares of forest and generated a variety of innovations in shared governance and ecosystem-based management that aim for more sustainable development practices.
Community Empowerment Lab (CEL)
CEL is a community-entrenched, global health research and innovation organization working to improve health outcomes through deep, respectful human engagement. Based in Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India, CEL engaged with all stakeholders in the Uttar Pradesh health system to collaboratively implement life-saving innovations for childbirth and neonatal care.
GAME is an organization dedicated to widespread development of entrepreneurship in cities, towns, and villages across India as a solution to India’s systemic job creation challenges. In 2025, GAME made a decisive pivot to a more targeted strategy centered around developing healthy local entrepreneurship ecosystems and the creation of new enterprises by women.
The Global Energy Alliance for People and Planet (GEAPP) acts as a systems catalyst to accelerate equitable energy transitions in emerging markets by mobilizing partnerships, funding, and innovation. Its strategy focuses on country-specific solutions to expand renewable energy access, reduce emissions, and unlock economic opportunity.
The Global Opportunity Youth Network empowers local partners and youth to co-create solutions for youth employment, using a scalable, place-based model. Its distributed leadership approach has improved opportunities for over 630,000 young people across 17 global communities.
Henry Schein
A global health care company plays a critical role in co-founding, co-stewarding and actively collaborating in multiple platforms for broad multi-stakeholder action on preventing, detecting and responding to health and humanitarian crises across the world.
IHI applies principles and methods from the private sector quality improvement movement to all aspects of health and healthcare, in the US and worldwide. IHI grew from a group of nine health professionals to a movement with life-saving programs benefitting millions of people in 62 countries.
Pratham works with the public education system across India to improve outcomes by engaging with both communities and schools. They nurture a culture of continuous improvement, using data constructively and mobilizing citizens nationwide.
Tostan works with rural and remote African communities to bring about positive social transformation and sustainable development through a holistic, empowering, human rights-based education program. The program has reached more than five million people across eight African countries.