Corporate Social Responsibility

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Corporate Social Responsibility The
Millennium Development Goals
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The Crisis
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• POVERTY More than one billion people in the
  world live on less than a dollar a day. Another
  1.8 billion struggle to survive on less than 2
  per day.
• ILLITERACY Around the world, a total of 114
  million children do not get even a basic
  education and 584 million women are illiterate.
• PRE-MATURE DEATH Life expectancy in sub-Saharan
  Africa is less than 55 years and dropping.
• WATER AND SANITATION Four out of every ten
  people in the world don't have access even to a
  simple latrine and two in ten have no source of
  safe drinking water.

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10 poorestcountries
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The Crisis in Global Health

• Every year gt11 million children die 6 M of
  preventable diseases
• gt50 of Africans suffer from water related
  diseases
• HIV/AIDS
• 40 M people are infected with HIV (gt25 in Africa
  and gt8 in Asia)
• Every year 3 M people die of AIDS
• Every year 5 M people become infected with HIV
• Malaria
• Every year 2-3 million people die of Malaria
• TB
• In 2002,TB killed 2 million people

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The Millennium Development Goals

• The worlds first
• shared set of integrated,
• quantitative and time-bound goals for poverty
  reduction

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The Millennium Development Goals

• Goal 1 Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger
• Goal 2 Achieve universal primary education
• Goal 3 Promote gender equality and empower
  women
• Goal 4 Reduce child mortality
• Goal 5 Improve maternal health
• Goal 6 Halt and begin to reverse the spread of
  HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases
• Goal 7 Ensure environmental sustainability
• Goal 8 Develop a Global Partnership for
  Development

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United Nations Millennium Project

• Mission
• To develop and recommend an operational framework
  of implementation that will allow all developing
  countries to meet the MDGs by 2015.
• Structure
• Advisory body to UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan
• Directed by Prof. Jeffrey Sachs, Special Advisor
  to the Secretary-General on the MDGs.
• Bulk of work performed by 10 thematically-oriented
  Task Forces of experts and leading
  practitioners.
• Small secretariat housed at UNDP facilitates work
  of Task Forces and ensures coordination across
  Project.

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Millennium Project Focus Countries
Tajikistan
Dominican Republic
Yemen
Senegal
Nigeria Mali Malawi Rwanda Uganda Tanzania
Ghana
Ethiopia
Kenya
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• Achieving
• the Millennium Development Goals
• at Community Level in Rural Africa

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Millennium Village - Sauri

• Health Conditions
• Malaria
• HIV
• Typhoid
• Anemia
• Diarrhea
• Macro/Micro nutrient deficiencies
• Interventions
• Bed-nets
• ARV-program
• School meals
• Macro/Micro nutrient program
• Agricultural supplies
• Hygiene/Sanitation
• Maternal Child Health Center
• Vehicle

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Sauri Education Committee

• Interventions
• Free school meals
• Health promotion
• Hygiene/Sanitation
• First computer
• Rankings
• From 68th in the district in 2004 to 4th in 2005

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Private Sector Partners

• Nike
• Sponsors a village, 1,5 million over five years
• Sumitomo Chemical
• Bed nets for 112 villages in ten countries
• Rabobank
• Sponsors a village and offers microcredit
• Monsanto
• Hybrid seed for farmers in 3 countries

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Main ways business can engage

• Core business practices
• Creating employment
• Developing new products and ways to deliver
  affordable goods and services
• Enable market opportunities
• Address the risks to human resources and assets
  or capital
• Public private partnerships
• Business and philanthropic activity that has an
  economic rationale

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Main ways business can engage

• Philanthropy through investment
• Cash donations or in kind contributions
• Public policy dialogue
• Transparent and responsible business engagement
• Government advising on areas of expertise

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• Hunger

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Global Distribution of Drought Risk (mortality)
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Business Fighting Hunger

• Increasing food production and strengthening
  market systems in starving
• Regions (Ericsson, Visa)
• Improving nutrition through fortified products
  and consumer education
• (particularly mothers and young children)
  (TetraPak, Unilever, Nestle)
• Strengthening governments commitment and
  capacity to act against hunger
• Building public and political support for
  increased investment in hunger
• reduction
• Partnering with public agencies and NGOs to
  strengthen their capacity

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• Diseases

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Geographic Overlap of Hookworm and Malaria
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Business Fighting Malaria

• New technologies
• Less expensive
• Innovative integrated vector management solutions
• Transfer technology and build local capacity to
  reduce costs and delivery time
• Supply Chain and logistics
• Share tools and skills with the public sector to
  improve efficiency
• Leverage distribution networks and retail
  channels to increase access
• Community education

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Business Fighting Malaria

• Pharmaceutical Companies
• vaccines (GlaxoSmithKline)
• drugs (Novartis, Sanofi-Aventis, Pfizer)
• diagnostics (BD)
• Bed-net producers (Sumitomo, Vestergaard)
• Virgin Unite
• ExxonMobil
• Unilever
• Sun International

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• Why business should invest in the Millennium
  Development Goals?

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Benefits for Business

• Reaching the Millennium Development Goals
• would create a more prosperous, stable
• and inclusive economy which forms the
• foundation of a thriving business sector.

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• Thank You