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Chairman’s The sustainability challenges the world Through this booklet it is our privilege

is facing are unprecedented in scale
to showcase some projects including
the world’s largest evidence base
and urgency.
informing teachers about what
This is why BHP Foundation works with
Message others to identify and drive system- interventions deliver greatest education
outcomes for students, and how open
wide solutions to some of the world’s
contracting can be used as a powerful
most complex sustainable development
corruption-buster, improving the lives
challenges.
countries.
To be successful requires bold of millions of people in resource-rich
ambition and new ways of work. We We are only able to lean into
understand that how we work with these challenges because of the
others is as critical to achieving our commitment and contribution of
desired outcomes as what we do. We our sole funder BHP, who shares
aspire to transformational relationships our vision.
and partnering approaches which
are mutually accountable, creating Chip Goodyear
equitable power and supporting Chairman
management of risks. BHP Foundation
To deliver, we have adopted a catalytic
investment approach - venture
philanthropy – to address the root
causes of systemic global challenges.
We deliberately invest in potentially
transformative projects, supporting our
partners through rigorous evaluation
processes to test outcomes and
impact and, where successful, work as
advocates to scale and mainstream these
approaches to positively impact our
world now and in the future.

UN Women, India