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Corporate Social Responsibility &
The Millennium Development Goals
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The Crisis
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people in the world live on less than a dollar a day. Another 1.8 billion struggle to survive on less than $2 per day.
ILLITERACY: Around the world, a total of 114 million children do not get even a basic education and 584 million women are illiterate.
PRE-MATURE DEATH: Life expectancy in sub-Saharan Africa is less than 55 years – and dropping.
WATER AND SANITATION: Four out of every ten people in the world don't have access even to a simple latrine; and two in ten have no source of safe drinking water.
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The Crisis in Global Health
Every year >11 million children die; 6 M of preventable diseases>50% of Africans suffer from water related diseases
HIV/AIDS~40 M people are infected with HIV (>25 in Africa and >8 in Asia)Every year 3 M people die of AIDSEvery year 5 M people become infected with HIV
MalariaEvery year 2-3 million people die of Malaria
TBIn 2002,TB killed 2 million people
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The Millennium Development Goals
The world’s first
shared set of integrated,
quantitative and time-bound goals for poverty reduction
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The Millennium Development Goals
Goal 1: Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger
Goal 2: Achieve universal primary education
Goal 3: Promote gender equality and empower women
Goal 4: Reduce child mortality
Goal 5: Improve maternal health
Goal 6: Halt and begin to reverse the spread of HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases
Goal 7: Ensure environmental sustainability
Goal 8: Develop a Global Partnership for Development
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United Nations Millennium Project
Mission:
– To develop and recommend an operational framework of implementation that will allow all developing countries to meet the MDGs by 2015.
Structure:
• Advisory body to UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan
• Directed by Prof. Jeffrey Sachs, Special Advisor to the Secretary-General on the MDGs.
• Bulk of work performed by 10 thematically-oriented Task Forces of experts and leading practitioners.
• Small secretariat housed at UNDP facilitates work of Task Forces and ensures coordination across Project.
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Millennium Project Focus Countries
Tajikistan
Yemen
Ethiopia Kenya
Senegal
Ghana
Dominican Republic
NigeriaMaliMalawiRwandaUgandaTanzania
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Achieving
the Millennium Development Goals
at Community Level in Rural Africa
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Millennium Village - Sauri
Health Conditions:MalariaHIVTyphoidAnemiaDiarrheaMacro/Micro nutrient deficiencies
Interventions:Bed-netsARV-programSchool mealsMacro/Micro nutrient programAgricultural suppliesHygiene/SanitationMaternal Child Health CenterVehicle
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Sauri – Education Committee
Interventions: Free school meals Health promotion Hygiene/Sanitation First computer
Rankings:From 68th in the district in 2004
to 4th in 2005
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How much???
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Private Sector Partners
Nike– Sponsors a village, $1,5 million over five years
Sumitomo ChemicalBed nets for 112 villages in ten countries
RabobankSponsors a village and offers microcredit
MonsantoHybrid seed for farmers in 3 countries
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Main ways business can engage:
Core business practices
Creating employment
Developing new products and ways to deliver affordable goods and services
Enable market opportunities
Address the risks to human resources and assets or capital
Public – private partnerships
Business and philanthropic activity that has an economic rationale
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Main ways business can engage:
Philanthropy through investment
Cash donations or in kind contributions
Public policy dialogue
Transparent and responsible business engagement
Government advising on areas of expertise
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Hunger
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Global Distribution of Drought Risk(mortality)
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Business Fighting Hunger:
Increasing food production and strengthening market systems in starving
Regions (Ericsson, Visa)
Improving nutrition through fortified products and consumer education
(particularly mothers and young children) (TetraPak, Unilever, Nestle)
Strengthening government’s commitment and capacity to act against hunger
Building public and political support for increased investment in hunger
reduction
Partnering with public agencies and NGOs to strengthen their capacity
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Diseases
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Geographic Overlap of Hookworm and Malaria
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Business Fighting Malaria:
New technologies– Less expensive– Innovative integrated vector management solutions– Transfer technology and build local capacity to reduce costs
and delivery time
Supply Chain and logistics– Share tools and skills with the public sector to improve
efficiency– Leverage distribution networks and retail channels to increase
access
Community education
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Business Fighting Malaria
Pharmaceutical Companies
vaccines (GlaxoSmithKline)
drugs (Novartis, Sanofi-Aventis, Pfizer)
diagnostics (BD)
Bed-net producers (Sumitomo, Vestergaard)
Virgin Unite
ExxonMobil
Unilever
Sun International
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Why business should invest in the Millennium Development
Goals?
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Benefits for Business
Reaching the Millennium Development Goals
would create a more prosperous, stable
and inclusive economy which forms the
foundation of a thriving business sector.
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