GK Partners are business and development advisers and consultants who provide business advice, policy guidance and strategic support to commercial, governmental and charitable organisations. GK Partners work with: Social Enterprises – making them more enterprising and financially viable; Commercial Enterprises – making them more socially and environmentally responsible; Public & International Institutions – with the aim of making them more effective, efficient and equitable.
GK Partners' services include specialist programmes on: Access to Finance (A2F), Access to Property (A2P), Finance for Development (F4D) and Policy for Development (P4D).
GK Partners was registered as an independent UK company in 2004 by Gibril Faal and Katharine Ford who act as co-directors and principal advisers. They met in 2001 when they were recruited as the two specialist business advisers on a pilot project that developed and implemented a social enterprise business support system in the UK. The project was under the auspices of the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI), delivered by Business Link for London, which was the largest unit of the government’s national business support agency.
GK Partners have worked with the Business and Intellectual Property Centre of the British Library, and financial institutions such as Triodos Bank and Charity Bank. The company had inputs in the negotiations and formulation of the 2015 Sustainable Development Goals and the Financing for Development agreements. GK Partners also provided evidence to the House of Commons International Development Committee on 'SDGs and Business' in October 2015.