Partnerships are an important way for IPS to fulfil its mission and extend the reach and impact of its activities. IPS partners with media organisations, civil society and donors to increase the quality and quantity of its outputs.

With media organisations, IPS has content and distribution partnerships as well as institutional memorandums of understanding with media players that share the IPS approach to the international media scene. Current partnerships include:

International Network of Street Newspapers: offers IPS copy in 6 languages to “street papers” in 34 countries. Street papers create opportunities for homeless people to earn income, with a global annual circulation of 32 million copies.
 
OneWorld Yahoo! News: selected IPS stories are posted to Yahoo News on its “World” channel through a partnership with OneWorld, which features IPS as a news source across its network.
 
IPS shares content with a number of like-minded news sources including: Envolverde (Brazil), Infosud (Francophone countries), The Killid Group and Pajhwok Afghan News (Afghanistan), the Asia Media Information and Communication Centre (Singapore), the International Federation of Environmental Journalists (India/France)
 
IPS is in the process of forging institutional partnerships with Al Jazeera and Telesur, with soon-to-be-signed Memorandums of Understanding. Both media organizations share our commitment to creating alternatives to the Western media monopolies.
 

IPS has long benefited from strong relationships with civil society, fostered through reporting their news and views, and engaging them in using communications as a way of promoting and attaining a better world. Regional partnerships are explored on the IPS regional pages with current global partnerships that include:

World Social Forum: IPS plays a key role in the areas of media, information and communication. TerraViva has been printed and online at every WSF from Porto Alegre to Karachi, Bamako, Caracas and Nairobi, plus at many regional and thematic events in between. IPS, with partners like Le Monde Diplomatique, is the outlet for high-level debates including a series of Information And Communication World Forums to orient participating journalists and promote communication rights.
 
CIVICUS: TerraViva newspapers at the CIVICUS World Assemblies and a series of media and civil society high-level dialogues
 
Com+, Alliance of Communicators for Sustainable Development: IPS is a founding member of this multi-stakeholder grouping that includes: the World Bank, IUCN, the Reuters Foundation, the BBC World Service Trust, One Planet, the United Nations Environment Programme and many others. The IPS-IFEJ reporting series, joint trainings and access to leading environmental players are concrete results of the partnership.
 
GCAP / Millennium Campaign: IPS joined, promoted and offered independent reporting on the record-breaking STAND UP Against Poverty efforts of 2006 and 2007. This built on the longstanding IPS commitment to communicating the Millennium Development Goals.
 
CONGO, Conference of NGOs in Consultative Relationship with the United Nations: IPS participates in this platform and offers special reporting services to selected meetings, including the 2007 Civil Society Development Forum.