The Business Guide to Partnering with NGOs and the United Nations:
2007/2008. A Report by The Global Compact, Dalberg Global Development
Advisors and the Financial Times
543 pages | 237mm x 168mm | ISBN 978-0-9801852-0-1 | May 2008
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"The Business Guide for Partnering with NGOs and the United Nations"
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that have demonstrated competency in partnering with companies in a
number of areas such as advocacy, awareness-raising, health and the
environment, among others.
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The world took notice at the Johannesburg Summit on Sustainable
Development in 2002 when companies, the UN and NGOs came together to
advocate for collective action to address climate change. However, the
movement towards cooperation between the UN, NGOs and the business
community was slow to take hold. By 2005, the "Financial Times" was
still calling a collaborative project between Unilever and Oxfam
"globalisation's strange bedfellows". But despite slow recognition by
the media, a fundamental change was occurring. Instead of
confrontation, NGOs, the United Nations and businesses were beginning
to speak the same language and seeking to work together to tackle
global challenges.
Today, over 65% of the Global Compact's corporate participants are
engaged in partnerships with NGOs and the UN. This publication is a
response to the exploding demand for guidance.
"The Business Guide for Partnering with NGOs and the United Nations"
provides a comprehensive and accessible market-based assessment of
leading non-profit social actors and agencies of the United Nations
that have demonstrated competency in partnering with companies in a
number of areas such as advocacy, awareness-raising, health and the
environment, among others.
It was born out of the belief that, if companies are aware of the
success of other businesses in engaging in partnerships, they
themselves will be more inclined to seriously consider the prospects of
partnering. Thus, the overarching aspiration of this business guide is
to increase the number of partnerships and the quality and impact of
those partnerships. Through three distinct avenues it is a product that
helps both companies and social actors prepare themselves for
partnership building:
* Transparency. The publication attempts to create greater transparency
in the marketplace by identifying successful partnership examples. The
enclosed organisational profiles enable companies to sort and identify
partners based on geography, strengths, focus areas, etc., making it
significantly easier to find the right partner.
* Access. The guide provides readers with contact information and
highlights topics around which profiled organisations are interested in
creating partnerships. Thus, it will be easy for companies to make a
connection with an appropriate organisation on an issue of relevance to
both of them.
* Role models. The guide showcases social actors and partnerships that
have been successful, displaying some of the important factors - such
as execution capabilities, accountability, and entrepreneurship - that
companies are looking for in partners.
The research was undertaken in collaboration with some of the most
highly regarded players in the corporate citizenship sector, including
Business for Social Responsibility (BSR), International Business
Leaders Forum (IBLF), American Chambers of Commerce, International
Chambers of Commerce (ICC), World Bank Institute (WBI), World Business
Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) and CSRWire. The book
contains 865 valid partnership ratings from 445 companies, who rated
social actors on the basis of their accountability, adaptability,
execution and communication.
"The Business Guide for Partnering with NGOs and the United Nations" is
an indispensable resource for all companies and civil society
organisations looking for guidance on how to identify suitable partners
as well as for researchers and academics studying this new and rapidly
evolving area.
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