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The challenges in the world today

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are quite frankly too big

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for any one of us or even any one organisation

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to face alone.

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Working in partnership with organisations,

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like Save the Children, represents one

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of the most important things that we as BCG do,

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unlocking the potential of those who advance the world.

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We live in a world where progress

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for children has stalled.

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Some of our most pressing issues

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are the fact that millions of children still live

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in conflict areas.

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Six out of ten school-aged children are out of school.

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And in a day, more than 2,500 children die

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from preventable and treatable diseases,

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like childhood pneumonia.

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Our focuses are on these children

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to make sure no one is left behind.

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We need to make sure

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that we are in a position to drive change for children.

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BCG has proven itself to be a very important partner

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to Save the Children over the years.

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One of the things I really appreciate in the partnership

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is the fact that BCG continues

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to challenge us and to push us to be our best.

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We're proud to be bringing many aspects of BCG

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to supporting Save the Children

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in advancing their mission.

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Bringing insight and impact

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through strategy, digital, organisational,

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operational and programmatic work,

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as well as participating on Save the Children boards

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around the world and sending our consultants

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in house as secondees.

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In 2010, the Haiti earthquake killed 250,000 people

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and devastated the capital of the country.

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Save the Children mounted one

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of the largest humanitarian responses

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that we had ever attempted to endeavour

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and BCG was there to help us along the way.

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BCG provided a senior leader

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to be part of the humanitarian response

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and serve as project leader.

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In addition, we received support from BCG

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on improving our supply chain and logistics function.

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After the earthquake, we had a lot

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of lessons learned from that experience

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and BCG helped us compile the results

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and transform those learnings

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into a toolbox of methodologies

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that we use for emergency preparedness and response.

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In addition, BCG was extremely helpful

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in helping us develop the methods

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for fundraising for emergencies.

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This work helped us reach our emergency fundraising target

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of 500 million in 2014.

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It's critical for Save the Children

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to be an effective organisation

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and make the best use of our resources.

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That's why we have also launched a significant programme

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a few years ago called High-Performing Organisation

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to reduce cost and complexity

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and stress for our staff working in the field

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on these programmes.

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The Boston Consulting Group

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has helped us tremendously

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by adding their knowledge

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and expertise coming from the private sector.

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They also helped us in estimating

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how much this transformation would take

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and in a later stage, they helped us again

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in bringing together the interdependencies

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between these initiatives.

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Recently, we asked the Boston Consulting Group back

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to do a review on our organisational effectiveness again

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and we identified $50 million

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in terms of reinvestment opportunities,

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which obviously, was a very successful outcome.

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Right now, there are approximately

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71 million people displaced by conflict in the world

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and every single year that number substantially increases.

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Over half of that 71 million are children

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and I think it's fair to say

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that they are amongst the most marginalised

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and deprived children in the world.

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So our role is to find innovative

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and cost-effective solutions

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to this extraordinary problem

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that is one of the biggest challenges we have

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in the world today.

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The predictive displacement tool

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that Save the Children developed in conjunction

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and collaboration with BCG

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was an innovative attempt

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to harness the capacity of predictive analytics

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in the space of displacement,

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with the idea that if we were able

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to predict the duration and scale

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of a displacement crisis

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at the beginning of the displacement,

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we would be much better placed

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to respond effectively to a range of problems.

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By having a better idea of the scale

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and duration of displacement from day one,

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we can better anticipate the sustainable investments

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and things like infrastructure,

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education, protection the children

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and their families need to bridge that critical divide

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between short-term humanitarian emergency response

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and longer-term sustainable development.

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This also allows us

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to better evidence base the proposals we give to donors.

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Save the Children has also had the opportunity

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to work with Boston Consulting Group's

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Digital Ventures group

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to brainstorm further ways

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that technologies can be harnessed

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to help children affected by migration displacement.

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Working with BCG Digital Ventures

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was a really unique and engaging experience

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and involved a process of channelling creativity

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and out-of-the-box thinking in coming up with new solutions.

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Our joint team came up with nearly 800 innovative ideas.

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One concept we developed, for instance,

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is a platform for assisting teachers working with children

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in conflict-affected areas.

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Again, I think showing how going against the grain

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can open up new avenues for our mission.

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BCG has been working in partnership

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with Save the Children for 15 years.

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And much of the work that we've done

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has been about looking to the future

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and trying to help Save the Children anticipate

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and respond to challenges ahead.

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And we're seeing many trends, even today,

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which will be shaping the future of this sector.

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Changes in children's needs,

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technology, climate change,

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sustainability, donor behaviour.

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These are just some of the factors

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which are going to shape this sector into the future.

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And the pace at which these changes

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are occurring is increasing,

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making it urgent to consider how the future

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in which Save the Children will operate

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might be disrupted.

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Save the Children's mission is as important as ever.

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As an organisation, I'm hugely proud

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of our staff and all the hard work they are doing,

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many of them under very difficult circumstances,

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making sure we reach the most deprived

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and marginalised children.

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And I'm very, very happy that we have BCG

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as one of our trusted partners along the way.

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We're immensely proud to be partnering

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with Save the Children and the meaningful work

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that we've done together.

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We look forward to continuing to partner

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with Save the Children

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and addressing some of the most pressing challenges

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in our world today.