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The following is a compilation of articles, organizations, projects, and links concerning the main themes of the conference.We hope that it is a helpful resource, providing concrete examples and current articles.

The site is a work in progress - please email us (cbrewer@globalpublicpolicy.net) with any further suggestions.

**Articles, websites, and organizations listed here are only a sampling and do not reflect the opinions of GPPi**

Business UNusual: Facilitating United Nations Reform through Partnerships

Reform at the United Nations: Partnerships as Incubators for Change:

UN Summit Fact Sheet: 2005 World Summit Outcome

Annan, Kofi "In Larger Freedom: Decision Time at the UN", Foreign Affairs, May/June 2005.

Benner, Thorsten "The UN can help business help itself", International Herald Tribune, 18 August 2005.

Murray, Sarah "UN partnerships: Mistrust of corporate world wearing off", Financial Times, 13 September 2005.

Robinson, Mary "A new way of doing the world's business", International Herald Tribune, 25 September 2005

Ruggie, John "Modernists Must Take Over the United Nations", Financial Times, 24 January 2005.

Ruggie, John (2002) "The Theory and Practice of Learning Networks: Corporate Social Responsibility and the Global Compact", Journal of Corporate Citizenship 5, pp. 27-36.

Witte, Jan Martin and Wolfgang Reinicke (2005) "Partnerships: Opportunities and Challenges of Partnering with the UN", Compact Quarterly, Volume 1, Issue 3, June 2005.

Business UNusual: Partnerships as Strategic Investments:

Benner, Thorsten "Knigge für die Multis", DIE ZEIT, 15 September 2005.

Benner, Thorsten "Leitplanken für Global Player? Die Rolle und Verantwortung multinationaler Unternehmen" in GPPi Research Paper Series No. 4. Berlin 2005.

The Economist "A Survey on Corporate Social Responsibility: The Good Company/The Union of Concerned Executives", The Economist 20 January 2005.

Friedman, Milton "The Social Responsibility of Business is to Increase Its Profits", New York Times Magazine, 13 September 1970.

Kytle, Beth and John Ruggie (2005) Corporate Social Responsibility as Risk Management. A Model for Multinationals. CSR Working Paper Series #4 (Cambridge, Kennedy School of Government).

Martens, Jens "Precarious 'Partnerships'. Six Problems of the Global Compact Between Business and the UN", Global Policy Forum 23 June 2004

Skapinker, Michael "Non-Profit Organizations must evolve in order to survive", Financial Times 5 May 2005.

Slaughter, Anne-Marie (2004) 'The Power and Legitimacy of Government Networks' in Susan Stern/Elisabeth Seligmann (eds.) The Partnership Principle. New Forms of Governance in the 21st Century (London, Archetype Publishers), pp. 24-35.

Zadek, Simon (2004) "The Path to Corporate Responsibility", Harvard Business Review, pp. 125-132.

Workshop: Partnerships for Disaster Relief: The Tsunami Experience:

Workshop: Partnerships for Disaster Relief: The Tsunami Experience

Inderfurth, Karl F. and David Fabrycky, Stephen P. Cohen, "The Tsunami Report Card" Foreign Policy, December 2005.

OCHA-Global Compact inter-agency website "Business Contributions to UN Emergency Relief Efforts: An Orientation Guide".

UNDP's COPE (Corporate Partnerships in Emergencies) Programme

United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs and the Business Roundtable: Advancing Public-Private Partnerships in Response to Global Disasters, 25 April 2005

US State Department press release "Tsunami Relief Done Well Becomes Future Model, Clinton Says" 26 April 2005.

United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA)
"Tsunami relief effort must be done right, used as model for future, says Special Envoy at Headquarters conference" 25 April 2005.

Association of Schools of Public Health "Public-Private Partnerships Provide Needed Public Health Expertise to Tsunami Relief Efforts", Friday Letter #1364 10 June 2005.

U.S. Chamber of Commerce, Center for Corporate Citizenship and Booz Allen Hamilton "Disaster Relief - Improving Response and Long-Term Recovery" July 2005.

USAID Tsunami Reconstruction: website indicates reconstruction projects by country, including many public-private partnerships

Workshop: Promoting Health through Partnerships:
General Resources:

NEW: McNeil Jr., Donald G. "New Drug Mix Against Malaria Is Announced" New York Times, 13 December 2005.

Global Forum for Health Research, Initiative on Public-Private Partnerships for Health
 - Health Partnerships Database
 - Publications on Public-Private Partnerships for Health

Harvard School of Public Health and The Global Health Council conference "Public-Private Partnerships in Public Health" 2000.

Thomas, Ann and Dr. Valerie Curtis. The World Bank, Water and Sanitation Program "Public-Private Partnerships for Health: A Review of Best Practices in the Health Sector", July 2003.

'Africa: Creating Sustainable Health Systems: Round-table supplement' New Statesman, July 11, 2005.

'How Public-Private Pharmaceuticals Partnerships Work', Financial Times (London, England) 16 September 2005, Pg. 14.

Jack, Andrew "An antidote to neglected diseases public-private partnerships: Alliances of drugmakers, governments and charities are reviving research into overlooked health problems, writes Andrew Jack", Financial Times (London, England) 16 September 2005, Pg. 14.

Garnier, Jean-Pierre "A prescription for combating global diseases", Financial Times (London, England) 30 May 2005.

Examples of Partnerships:

Roll Back Malaria (RBM)

'Reversing the failures of Roll Back Malaria', Lancet, Friday, April 22, 2005.

Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization (GAVI)

Workshop: Harnessing Markets for Development through Partnerships:

Dervis, Kemal "Why the millennium goals matter", International Herald Tribune, 13 September 2005.

The Economist "The UN's Millennium Development Goals: Aspirations and Obligations", The Economist 8 September 2005.

Growing Sustainable Business (GSB) - The Growing Sustainable Business initiative facilitates business-led enterprise solutions to poverty in advancement of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). These enterprise solutions accelerate and sustain access to needed goods/services and livelihoods opportunities.

Business in Development (BiD) promotes poverty reduction through profit in developing countries. They do this by actively engaging Dutch companies and their employees in initiatives for market-oriented sustainable development. BiD is a programme funded and coordinated by the NCDO, The Netherlands.

Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ): Focus on Public Private Partnerships (in German)

German Agency for Technical Cooperation (GTZ): Focus on Public Private Partnerships (in German)

Workshop: Building a Business Case for Sustainability Reporting

Pearlstein, Steven "Social Responsibility Doesn't Much Sway the Balance Sheet", The Washington Post, 5 October 2005.

Nicholas, Kate "Public Relations: Corporate Responsibility: The Art of Keeping up Appearances; Reports into Companies' Corporate Responsibility Used to be a Triumph", The Independent (London), 13 June 2005.

Donaldson, Craig "Employee motivation a key driver in CSR", Human Resources, Human Resources Magazine, 1 August 2005.

Luensche, Sven "Reporting CSI Committed to More than the Bottom Line", Financial Mail (South Africa), 22 July 2005.

A few of the many Corporate Sustainability Reporting websites and publications:

Global Reporting Initiative

Australian Government, Department of the Environment and Heritage

Association of Chartered Certified Accountants

Association of Chartered Certified Accountants and Corporate Register, "Environmental, Social and Sustainable Reporting on the World Wide Web: A guide to best practices", The Certified Accountants Educational Trust (London) October 2001.

Reinventing Sustainability - Engine for Economic Success?
Sullivan, Rory and Michael Warner (2004) 'Shell Petroleum Development Corporation, Nigeria. Partnering and Environmental Impact Assessment' in Rory Sullivan/Michael Warner (eds.) Putting Partnerships to Work. Strategic Alliances between Government, the Private Sector and Civil Society (London, Greenleaf Publishers), pp. 36-54.

Steets, Julia "Waltz, Jazz, or Samba? The Contribution of Locally Driven Partnerships to Sustainable Development," discussion paper presented at SEED partnerships for sustainable development workshop, 14 April 2005.

The Sustainability Report
Affiliated with the Institute for Research and Innovation in Sustainability

Austrian Business Council for Sustainable Development

 

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