18 August 2006

The second edition of the UN-Business Focal Point now available

The second edition of the The UN-Business Focal Point has been published by the United Nations Global Compact Office. The newsletter is published on a quarterly basis and is aimed at UN private sector focal points, employees in UN agencies who coordinate with the private sector.

 

GPPi provides and coordinates content for the newsletter under the direction of the UN Global Compact Office. With contributions from focal points representing a number of agencies within the UN, the purpose of the newsletter is to provide these focal points with the latest news, tools, resources and lessons learned concerning the UN System's engagement with the private sector.

 

The second edition includes summaries of both the June UN-Private Sector Focal Points meeting in Paris and the 14th session of the Commission on Sustainable Development that took place in New York in May. The newsletter also provides information regarding a number of new UN partnerships with businesses such as Microsoft, World-Check, FIFA, and Coca-Cola, as well as recent publications, including the Seed Report authored by GPPi’s Julia Steets and Elisabeth Heid (case studies). In addition, two in-depth interviews were conducted with new focal points from both the public and private sector, providing an inside-look at some of the people behind the partnership building process.

 

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