our clients.
The most important thing to every member of our team is engaging in work that is meaningful and impactful. Our incredible clients are driving progressive change across the environmental, social and policy fields, and we have been fortunate to work with some of the world's leading organisations in these spaces. We are globally-minded and impact-oriented, and hope to collaborate on projects aligned on these views.
Here are some examples of the type of client work that we do:
Drafting a white paper on the key barriers to financing the plastics circular economy
Shared Planet helped GPAP establish a global finance task force aimed at increasing financial flows to plastic waste solutions. We interviewed stakeholders from across the private, public and third sector to define the areas in which the task force could have the most impact. We defined project outcomes, developed briefing materials, created a roadmap for success, and prepared a "state of play" report detailing the challenges and opportunities facing the plastics circular economy. Shared Planet also contributed to a policy framework shared across several social media channels to inspire governments to invest in the circular economy.
Building a global government coalition to create and advocate for a Nature-Positive Roadmap
In 2023, Shared Planet was appointed by the World Wide Fund for Nature UK (WWF-UK) to develop a global campaign advocating for the creation of a Nature Positive Economy Roadmap (NPER).​ The nature positive goal strives to increase natural capital by addressing biodiversity loss and valuing the services nature provides to society. A nature positive economy is both resilient to and regenerative of nature, based on principles of sustainability and circularity. Shared Planet’s role developed an advocacy strategy, engaged governments, and mapped potential forums for engagement and communications.​
Support for funder engagement for a global plastics environmental pact
WRAP is a climate action NGO working to tackle the causes of the climate crisis and give the planet a sustainable future. Its Plastic Pact has achieved significant scale in a short amount of time and is an iconic global plastic-focused initiative that has enjoyed significant success since its launch several years ago. Shared Planet was engaged in 2023 to support five markets with the Plastics Pact — South Africa, Kenya, Chile, Colombia and Mexico. Our work focused on helping WRAP expand its understanding of the stakeholder landscape and support its development of a long-term strategy to ensure the viability of the Plastic Pacts.
Created a trends report on the state of feminist economic justice
Shared Planet was retained in 2023 by the Feminist Action Nexus (administered by WEDO, the Women's Environment and Development Organisation) to create a trends report on feminist economic and climate justice. The report provided a clear and comprehensive overview of the current feminist state of the field’ regarding contemporary challenges for economic and climate justice.
Analysed global policy, finance and governance trends around the world and supported landscape approaches to fighting deforestation
Shared Planet was retained by the Business Case for Landscape Action (comprised by the Rainforest Alliance, Conservation International, The Carbon Disclosure Project, Clarmondial and USAID) for a series of stakeholder deliverables on Landscape and Jurisdictional Approaches in Ecuador, Peru, Colombia and Indonesia.
Shared Planet’s role included stakeholder mapping, financial institutional mapping, policy analysis, trend analysis and a review of governance mechanisms.​
Support for funder engagement for a global plastics environmental pact
Shared Planet supported the Tropical Forest Alliance (TFA) in the development of a value proposition narrative for Beef Partnership that aims to create a blueprint of actions to create a more sustainable beef supply chain between Brazil and China. Shared Planet was tasked with identifying stakeholders and developing a stakeholder engagement strategy to secure buy-in for this initiative. Shared Planet advised TFA on governance structures for managing their partnership and developed a Terms of Reference to guide terms of engagement in the group.
Creating an East African research network on human-wildlife conflict
Shared Planet is working with Pennsylvania State University and Oregon State University to convene two multi-stakeholder platforms of government, NGO and academic experts across East Africa. The aim of this work is to establish an East Africa research centre of excellence that will be a hub for governments and park agencies and managers working on human-wildlife conflict in the East Africa region — by Africans, for Africans — and to connect academic experts with those on the frontlines of human wildlife conflict.
Supporting a national nature rehabilitation programme
Shared Planet was retained by the Green KSA initiative — part of the Saudi Green Initiative — to support its development of a communications strategy for the 10 billion trees initiative. ​As part of support, we conducted a landscape audit and created a stakeholder map to help Green KSA understand the NGO, academic and other stakeholders involved in ‘afforestation’ discussions.​
Support for strategy on resource circularity and circular economy
Shared Planet was retained by the Director of the World Economic Forum's Centre for Resource Circularity (CRC) to support the development of a strategy, which included a comprehensive landscape mapping of current models to evolve the linear economic model towards a circular one, as well as an assessment of different stakeholder groups working on circularity in order to identify the ‘white space’ and territory where WEF could have a distinctive and additive value proposition.
Research and thought leadership support on food waste and redistribution
Shared Planet partnered with City Harvest to support the organisation’s thought leadership and brand promotion efforts. We developed a flagship thought leadership report that will serve as an annual platform through which to illustrate the value of City Harvest’s work and the work of its partners. ​The report highlights the benefits of City Harvest’s model and the impact that it has on the recipients, community partners and food donors from a value perspective.
Building a co-leading a global campaign to fight whaling
Shared Planet built and co-leads a global campaign to stop the Grindadrap hunt of dolphins and whales in the Faroe Islands together with Sea Shepherd International. The work includes a multi-faceted advocacy campaign, building and running the campaign website and all social media work.
Building an environmental awareness campaign for a UNESCO World Heritage Site
In 2023, Shared Planet was engaged by the RCU to support its first major environmental awareness campaign in AlUla County. The project included stakeholder opinion research, in-field data collection, a comprehensive landscape audit across 11 different environmental topics, the creation of a communications and partnership strategy, creating a progress management tool for the communications campaign to measure progress and contributing towards the creation of a visual identity and brand for the campaign.
Creating an IUCN expert report on forests and human health
In 2023, Shared Planet was retained by the ICUN to additionally support the creation of a global report on the positive impact of forests on human health. Our team supported the IUCN with an analysis of existing reports, convening an IUCN commissioner and expert workshops, developing thematic areas for consideration, drafting the expert report, and supporting IUCN communications on the report.
Research and strategic guidance on use of AI in humanitarian and development contexts
Shared Planet researched the application, design, and development of AI tools and services in the humanitarian and development fields across the MENA region. A report containing best practices, case studies, qualitative interviews, and a review of the literature was presented and concluded in key guidance, recommendations, and a principles framework for ethical, effective, and equal AI use for humanitarian efforts.
Report and mapping of women's organisations across the Greater Horn of Africa
Shared Planet was hired by SIHA to develop a report that will identify and provide an analysis of the advocacy landscape of women’s rights organisations in the GHoA. This research will contribute towards building the women’s movement in the region. will highlight the areas where SIHA can help fill in potential capacity gaps. The project involved a comprehensive mapping of women’s organisations in 5 countries, an analytical framework and scoring methodology, and risk mitigation strategies in anti-gender and conflict contexts.
Strategy, policy and stakeholder engagement on responsible, sustainable and inclusive marketing and platform safety
Shared Planet team has enjoyed a long-time collaboration with Mars Inc. on global marketing and advertising policy. We have deep expertise of the digital advertising policy landscape including sustainable and inclusive marketing, platform safety and emerging technologies. We have helped analyse and build advertising policy as part of our advisory services.
Strategy and partnership to support equal access to healthcare
From 2019 to 2021, Shared Planet supported the Children and Young People’s Health Partnership (CYPHP) in their goals to raise their profile, engage policymakers, and spread and scale their model. CYPHP is a UK-based charity focused on access to care for low-income children and their access to integrated healthcare. ​
Building an environmental awareness campaign for a UNESCO World Heritage Site
Shared Planet was retained by IUCN in 2023 to support its work on the ecological restoration and agroforestry strategy for the Royal Commission of AlUla. Our research team worked with IUCN reporting to the Nature & Heritage team of ecologists and specialists in AlUla. Our team led the delivery of a range of deliverables to assess the current situation in relation to the state of the ecology and habitats of AlUla County in Saudi Arabia.
Research and analysis on mitigating government bans on humanitarian CVA programs in the Central Sahel
Shared Planet was hired by the CALP Network to support relevant humanitarian stakeholders in understanding why bans on CVA programs are issued in the region, analyse whether there are common or similar patterns, reflect how it would be possible to mitigate this risk, and help Cash Working Groups (CWGs) and practitioners to adapt when these bans are issued.
Strengthening programmatic responses through the lens of climate change and degradation
Shared Planet was hired by the NRC as a Climate and Environment Consultant to develop a narrative on climate and environmental risks, interventions, and best practices in the MENA region and identify how NRC’s core competencies—Livelihoods and Food Security, Shelter & Settlements, Water, Sanitation and Hygiene—can be further adapted to better integrate climate considerations into humanitarian programming.
Research and analysis of food waste and circular food interventions
Shared Planet was retained in 2024 by ReLondon (the London Waste and Recycling Board) to undertake a research and analysis to identify and benchmark interventions that have been implemented to reduce household food waste generation and to increase consumption of low carbon and plant-based food.