Reaching the MDGs

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Reaching the MDGs - Partnering for
Development Cases
United Nations Development Programme
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Why engage with the private sector ?
Open markets and private enterprise are the
best generators of economic growth and reduced
poverty. Mark Malloch Brown, Administrator of
UNDP
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Examples of Partnership Initiatives
Global Networking Academies in LDCs ICT for
development Who? CISCO, UNDP, UNV, USAID What?
To meet the IT skills shortage in LDCs by
establishing networking academies and provide
training in computer networking. Academies in 10
countries. How? UNDPs initial involvement
started under the Asia regional programme on ICT
for development through negotiations between UNDP
- CISCO.
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Examples of Partnership Initiatives
Venezuela Governance Human rights Who?
Government, Amnesty International, Statoil and
UNDP What? Build capacity within judiciary
system on international human rights law.
Training of judges and federal prosecutors as
trainers. How? Statoil approached UNDP for
cooperation and protection of human rights was
defined as area of common interest. This
coincided with strengthened emphasis on human
rights in national judicial system.
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Examples of Partnership Initiatives
Botswana HIV/AIDS UNDP facilitates coalitions
for change
Who? UNDP, UN Foundation, Bill Melinda Gates
Foundation, Merck Co., Inc, Govt of Botswana,
Botswana TV What? HIV/AIDS Teacher Capacity
Building Program brings together Brazilian
communications experts and Botswana educators and
media professionals. Includes development and
implementation of audio-visual HIV/AIDS
prevention curriculum in schools throughout
Botswana.
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Examples of Partnership Initiatives
Ghana ICT to the country Mobile Telecentre
To-Go Who? Government, UNDP, 11 companies, civil
society groups What? Introduce information and
communication technology to schools, health
clinics, farms, local businesses, NGOs etc.
through mobile telecentres located in a bus. How?
UNDP organized workshop to present various ICT
related initiatives and ideas. Several companies
became interested and recognized importance of
ICT.
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Examples of Partnership Initiatives
China Social impact and poverty alleviation
WestEast pipeline Who? UNDP, Shell,
PetroChina, Government, Universities and various
institutes What? UNDP is undertaking social
impact assessment in preparation for the
construction of West-East pipeline, to ensure
that social and community concerns are taken into
consideration and are being addressed, and to
examine how local communities along the pipeline
can best benefit from the project. How? UNDP,
based on an agreement with Shell, has engaged the
Government, PetroChina and various universities,
development institutes and local governments to
participate in the assessment exercise.
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Examples of Nordic partnerships
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Norwegian experiences

• Companies give high priority to the way they are
  approached
• Sponsorships
• The most important challenge is to create the
  dialogue and to identify common interests
• There is a demand for someone to spar with
• When asked companies believe that they have a lot
  to contribute with and that they would like to
  contribute positively to poverty reduction, human
  development etc
• Economise and achieve goals otherwise not
  possible
• There were no examples of partherships having
  been checked to see if they were in accordance
  with the developmentstrategies or PRSPs

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Main issues

• Problems
• Trust