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Business UNusual: Facilitating United Nations Reform through Partnerships

Business UNusual: Facilitating United Nations Reform through Partnerships. Presentation at Business Unusual Conference 13 December 2005. Jan Martin Witte. 0. Good corporate citizenship and reputation are the most important drivers behind business engagement in partnerships.

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Business UNusual: Facilitating United Nations Reform through Partnerships

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  1. Business UNusual:Facilitating United NationsReform through Partnerships Presentation at Business Unusual Conference 13 December 2005 Jan Martin Witte

  2. 0 Good corporate citizenship and reputation are the most important drivers behind business engagement in partnerships • Rating of factors for decision to join partnerships (in percent) • Not • important • Neutral • Fairlyimportant • Very important • Important • Showing good • corporate citizenship • 49 • 44 • 7 • 1 • Increasing reputation • 37 • 48 • 10 • 3 • 2 • Individual leadership • 34 • 36 • 22 • 4 • 5 • Improving the investmentenvironment • 13 • 48 • 24 • 8 • 8 • Meeting governmentrequirements • 17 • 35 • 30 • 2 • 15 • 100%

  3. 4 Almost 80 percent of participating companies see partnerships as important for their future business success • "Partnerships with the UN will become more and more important for my company´s future business success." (answers in percent, n=145) • Strongly Disagree • Strongly Agree • 2 • Disagree • 17 • 19 • 62 • Agree

  4. One possible way of categorizing partnerships is along their functional role • Function • Advocacy • Developing rules, norms and standards • Sharing and coordinating resources • Harnessing markets for development • GRI • Who cares wins • Training Judges in Venezuela • Stop TB • Shea Butter in Burkina Faso • Microinsurance • Examples • Health in your hands • Mondialogo • Contribution • Place issues on global agenda • Prepare the ground for action • Fill gover-nance gaps • Increase in-clusiveness and accoun-tability • Exploit economies of scale in knowledge generation • Build capacity • Provide access to markets • Bridge or deepen markets

  5. Research highlights importance of local ownership and tie to core competencies for impact, sustainability and scale • Impact, Sustainability and Scale • Local ownership • Substantial influence of beneficiaries • Implementation through local partners • Partnerships as investments • Build on expertise and core competencies of partners • Impact assessment • ...

  6. Almost half respondents do not think it easy to build partnerships with the UN; less than a third sees the UN as effective • "It is easy to build partnerships with the UN" (n=129) • "How effective is the UN in responding to partnership requests by business?" (n=125) • Strongly disagree • Very effective • Not at all effective • Strongly Agree • 2 • 2 • 6 • 7 • Effective • 26 • Disagree • 40 • 54 • Agree • 65 • Fairly • effective

  7. The United Nations faces a set of challenges • Applying legal guidelines effectively and efficiently • Selecting partners in a coherent and transparent process • Ensuring sufficient coordination in the UN • Building capacity in country and regional offices

  8. Outlook and action agenda • Foster interface skills • Introduce systematic Impact assessment • Promote cross-fertilization and learning

  9. 5 Bureaucracy and lack of understanding of corporate culture seen as most significant impediments for the UN to be an effective partner • Rating of factors (in percent) • Fairlyimportant • Not im-portant • Very important • Important • Neutral • Bureaucracy • 23 • 43 • 28 • 5 • 2 • Lack of understanding • 23 • 40 • 21 • 11 • 5 • Lack of coordination • 16 • 41 • 28 • 8 • 6 • Lack of resources • 17 • 30 • 39 • 6 • 8 • Lack of skills • 7 • 28 • 40 • 11 • 15 • Lack of Leadership • 11 • 24 • 44 • 14 • 8 • 100%

  10. 181 Most participating firms have more than 500 employees • Number of employees of participating firms (in percent, n=149) • Between 250 and 500 • 3 • Less than 250 • 26 • 71 • More than 500

  11. 3 Survey respondents come from all industry sectors • Sectoral affiliation of participating companies (number of companies, n=221*) • Industrials • 46 • Retail • 24 • Natural Resources • 22 • Engineering • 21 • Banking and Finance • 19 • Technology • 19 • Health and Medicine • 13 • Telecoms • 13 • Building and Construction • 11 • Transport • 11 • Agriculture and Fisheries • 8 • Professional Services • 8 • Media • 6 • * Multiple answers possible

  12. 181 Length of participation in Global Compact is evenly distributed • Years of involvement in partnerships (in percent, n=147) • One to three years • Less than a year • 33 • 35 • 32 • More than three years

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