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Ecosystem

Build Solutions Through Partnership

MEA Sustainability Studio brings governments, businesses, development institutions, civil society, universities, experts and innovators together around shared sustainability challenges across the Middle East and Africa. Partners connect complementary expertise, local knowledge and resources to develop practical solutions.

Why Work Together?

Technical knowledge, institutional responsibilities and community priorities often sit in different places. Collaboration connects them around a shared challenge and a practical purpose.

  • Connect technical evidence with local experience and institutional priorities.
  • Bring complementary expertise, delivery capabilities and resources into a shared programme.
  • Develop locally relevant responses through co-creation and applied learning.
  • Link sustainability action with inclusive growth, equity and resilience.

How Partnership Develops

The Studio Way guides how a shared challenge becomes a working partnership. MEA Sustainability Solutions Lab provides the shared innovation approach; each specialised initiative retains its own mission, relationships and priorities.

  • Define the challenge together, using evidence and local priorities.
  • Connect the institutions, expertise and resources needed to respond.
  • Co-design responses, test approaches and use feedback to improve them.
  • Enable implementation through clear roles, institutional capacity and shared learning.

Partnerships

Partnership Opportunities

Four complementary partnership routes connect institutional priorities, technical knowledge, programme delivery and resources. Innovation and entrepreneurship can bring partners together across these routes.

  1. 01

    Strategic & Institutional Partners

    Governments, businesses, development institutions and civil society organisations that align regional priorities, connect institutions and resources, and shape long-term collaboration.

  2. 02

    Technical & Knowledge Partners

    Universities, think tanks, research organisations, practitioners and independent sustainability professionals contributing evidence, technical expertise and applied learning to shared sustainability challenges.

  3. 03

    Programme & Implementation Partners

    Local organisations, civil society networks, incubators and accelerators contributing programme design, community engagement, pilot delivery and implementation capacity.

  4. 04

    Funding & Resource Partners

    Foundations, donors, investors and development institutions contributing financial or in-kind resources to agreed programme objectives, practical implementation and learning.

Get involved

Express Interest

Choose the closest partnership type in the form, then tell us the initiative or shared challenge that interests you and what you or your organisation can contribute. The form prepares a message in your email app for you to send.

  • MEA SMEs Sustainability HubConnect your incubator, accelerator or enterprise-support network, or contribute expertise around shared SME sustainability challenges.
  • MEA NGOs Sustainability HubContribute civil society networks, institutional knowledge or local delivery experience to community-led sustainability solutions.
  • MEA Climate Action HubBring a defined local climate challenge, emissions or adaptation expertise, or implementation capacity for a coordinated response.
  • MEA Climate Policy LabContribute applied research, implementation evidence or policy dialogue around actionable climate and green-economy policy options.
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