Trends in Business-NGO Partnerships
Guy Sebban, Secretary General International Chamber of Commerce: Business plays a key role in achieving the Millennium Development Goals
This year marks the midpoint in one of the most ambitious poverty-elimination efforts ever undertaken – the UN Millennium Development Goals (MDG). In this pivotal year, when the objectives are being reassessed and strategies retooled to achieve these objectives, the biennial World Business and Development Awards (WBDA) in support of the goals, to be unveiled […]
Business and the Millennium Development Goals: A Framework for Action 2nd Edition
Sep 08 – This framework for action discusses how businesses can work with the UN system, governments, and civil society organisations to help achieve the Millennium Development Goals.
Business-NGO Partnerships under the spotlight
E-BULLETIN FROM THE INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS LEADERS FORUM The global context of the 21st century presents new development challenges, to which single sector solutions have proven an inadequate response. Cross-sector solutions – whether to economic, social, cultural or environmental challenges – involve organisations from all sectors systematically collaborating with non-traditional partners to share risks, costs and […]
Under The Spotlight – Building a better understanding of global business-NGO partnerships
Jul 08 – This discussion paper considers the partnering landscape from a global perspective and explores the differing experiences of NGO partnerships and business.
Growth, The Private Sector And The Path To Ending Poverty
Douglas Alexander, Secretary of State for International Development, set a fresh, bold direction for the UK’s aid agency, the Department for International Development, on Monday. In a speech at an event co-hosted by Business Action for Africa and the Overseas Development Institute, he pointed out that economic growth has accounted for 80% of poverty reduction […]
Partnering to Strengthen Public Governance
Jan 08 – The report offers CEOs and Boards of Directors guidance on the development of an effective engagement strategy on relevant public governance challenges.
The public–private alliance model for development
Building partnerships takes time and requires dedicated people and resources. But ultimately there is no better way to tackle development problems. The World Bank now has a superb opportunity to use its convening power to explore with other development actors the potential for scaling up the alliance approach within a strategic framework.
Private sector roles in the partnership age
The nature and scale of development issues require effective partnerships and solutions that involve different sectors of society. These interconnected and systemic issues are best looked at in a multisectoral setting requiring illaborative solutions, with a deliberate experimentational feature—learning from tinkering—which represents a challenge to the traditional motivational, organizational, and accountability mechanism long established for […]
Partnership Matters: Current Issues in Cross-Sector Collaboration, Issue 3: 2005
Aug 05 – This is the third edition of an annual journal that examines current thinking and practice in cross-sector partnerships.
After the Flood: Opportunities and challenges for responsible business engagement in post-tsunami recovery
Mar 05 – The report explores the issues surrounding responsible business engagement in post-tsunami recovery.
Disaster management and planning: An IBLF framework for business response
Jan 05 – This briefing is aimed at providing the business sector with a basic framework that can assist them in developing their own response to natural and manmade disasters.
Partnering for Success: Business Perspectives on Multi-stakeholder Partnerships
Jan 05 – The report focuses on some of the successful approaches that GCCI companies are taking to build partnerships to address key international development challenges.
Partnership Matters: Current Issues in Cross-Sector Collaboration, Issue 2: 2004
Aug 04 – The journal examines current thinking and practice in cross-sector partnerships.
IBLF in Europe: The continuing revolution
Jul 04 – The report assesses how our experience in CEE and Russia can inform future action to ensure that Europe meets its full potential.
The Buck Stops Where: Managing the Boundaries of Business Engagement in Global Development Challenges
Executive Summary: Business as Partners in Development – Creating Wealth for Countries, Companies and Communities
1996 – Published in collaboration with the World Bank and the United Nations Development Programme, the executive summary of this publication is aimed at every level of an organisation, and seeks to stimulate consideration of the new way of doing business.