Updates and Events
United Nations System Private Sector Focal Points Meeting Geneva, Oct 2008
Publications
UNDP and the Private Sector FACTSHEET(2008)
Supporting Business Environment Reforms: Practical Guidance for Development Agencies
Author: Simon White, Consultant to the Business Environment Working Group
(BEWG), Donor Committee for Enterprise Development
(2008)
Provides guidance to private sector development initiatives in donor agencies.
Food Sustainability: a Guide to the Private Sector (2008)
Editor-in-Chief and Project Director: Cecilie Arnesen Hultmann,
United Nations Global Compact Office
A practical and illustrative guide for businesses that presents sets of inspirational examples of how companies can contribute to sustainable food production and supply. Examples cover various sectors and show actions of small companies as well as multinational corporations from around the world.
AIDS is Everybody’s Business - Partnerships with the Private Sector: A Collection of Case Studies from UNAIDS
Author: Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS)
(2007)
A collection of stories highlighting some of the ways in which the UNAIDS secretariat and 10 cosponsors are collaborating to bring private sector leadership to the foreground in the global response to HIV.
Partnering for Development:
Making it Happen
Author: UNDP Nordic Office
(2006)
The main focus is on attempting to answer the question of why different actors should engage in partnerships. Even though partnerships are mostly multi-sectoral our emphasis will be on the public sector interest and the private sector interest. Includes examples of partnerships.
Business
as UNusual
Authors: Jan Martin Witte and Wolfgang Reinicke, UN Global Compact Office
(2005)
An overview of UN private sector partnerships, a description of some of the challenges of partnering with business, and offers suggestions for ensuring effective partnerships.
Measuring the contribution of civil society and the private sector to
achieving the Millennium Development Goals
Project commissioner: NCDO, The Netherlands
Project manager: Dutch Sustainability Research (DSR)
(2005)
A study of the contribution of efforts from one multinational corporation and one development organization to achieve the Millennium Development Goals. The report develops a methodology to monitor and evaluate the effects of an organization on the MDGs and applies it to two specific examples.
Empowering the poor through markets
Author: UNDP
(2005)
This publication gives a snapshot of UNDP initiatives to facilitate and enable market-based activities that contribute to reducing poverty.
Business and the Millennium Development Goals
Author: Jane Nelson, Dave Prescott: The International Business Leaders Forum
(2003)
The document provides A Framework for Action on how companies and business coalitions can work with the UN system, governments, and civil society organizations to help achieve the MDGs.
UNDP and the Business Sector: Working Together
to Fight Poverty
Author: UNDP
(2002)
This briefing includes facts about UNDP and specific examples of areas for possible cooperation between the UNDP and the private sector in order to achieve the MDGs.
Guidlines and Toolkits
Regional Consultation on Migration, Remittances and Development in Africa
pdf
Global Forum on Migration and Development (GFMD) pdf
Toolkit for private sector development
How UNDP can assist in launching GC and / or secure the sustainability of the GC network http://europeandcis.undp.org/guides/poverty/spd/index.htm
Implementing the UN Global Compact: a Booklet for Inspiration (English | Spanish)
Partnering Tool Book (PDF)
Gender & Remittances: Building Gender Responsive Local Development. Download pdf
Presentations
Promoting Inclusive Market Development
PowerPoint Presentation
Growing Inclusive Markets - How Businesses’ Quest for New Markets, Innovations & Opportunity can leverage the Global Human Development Agenda
PowerPoint Presentation
