Partnership Forum # 40: "Towards A Safe Drinking Water for All: Partnership between USAID IUWASH PLUS, LANEIGE, and SPEAK"
CCPHI’s 40th Partnership Forum was held on Thursday, March 14, 2019 with the topic: "Towards Safe Drinking Water for All: Partnership between USAID IUWASH PLUS, LANEIGE, and SPEAK" at the National Library, Gambir, Central Jakarta. It was an interesting discussion as the attendees were curious about the partnership details in the provision of clean water and how a multi-organizations partnership actually works, namely USAID IUWASH PLUS as an intermediary organization, LANEIGE as a donor, and SPEAK as an implementer.
The theme of the 40th Partnership Forum was meant to review the origins and process of the partnership that has been established between USAID IUWASH PLUS, LANEIGE, and SPEAK. As one of the well-known cosmetics companies among teenagers and adults, Laneige is not only focused on selling its products, but also inviting millennials to care about programs that benefit society. Laneige uses water-based ingredients as the main ingredient in their cosmetics and skin care products, therefore the issue of water is an essential issue for the corporate’s CSR. In the past two years, Laneige has established a Master Meter program in the city of Ternate together with USAID IUWASH PLUS. In the partnership between USAID IUWASH PLUS and LANEIGE, SPEAK as a USAID IUWASH PLUS’s partner acts as an implementer in terms of communication and advocacy, especially in the clean water section.
The Partnership Forum concluded that a communication in a partnership plays a very important role in the process of determining and finding the right partners for CSR programs within a company. Not only limited to funds, the partnership between the three parties also covers networking and human capital within the process to find the right partner.
The 40th Partnership Forum was attended by 61 participants consisting of the private sectors, research institutions, educational institutions, and donor agencies. This discussion was hosted by Usniati Umayah from USAID IUWASH PLUS.