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Post-MDGs: What role for business?
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Paula Lucci – Research Fellow
16th November 2013
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Today…
1. MDGs • What they achieved • Common criticisms• MDGs and private sector actors
2. Business and development • Examples of impact• Examples of initiatives
3. Post 2015• A different landscape• So…what role for business in a new set of goals?
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1.MDGsWhat have the MDGs achieved for us?
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1.MDGs Common criticisms
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Means v ends ProcessBilateral ODA from DAC donors
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1.MDGsWere private sector actors involved?
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Little involvement:• MDG 8:improving access to affordable essential drugs
and ICT • Some MNCs involved in related debates/initiatives
(e.g. Business Call to Action)
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2.Business and developmentExamples of Impact
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Investment and job creation, training
The poor may not benefit from those jobs
Innovation Innovation won’t happen in areas that do not represent a profitable market
Resource mobilisation (tax/royalties)
Tax avoidance
Can violate minimum standards of responsible behaviour
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2.Business and developmentExamples of initiatives
Core business CSR
Key challenge: measuring contribution
Standard compliance
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3.Post-2015 Different landscape
• More emphasis on productive sectors/jobs
• More interest in private sector actors?
• More open process? But concerns over capacity to engage from different actors
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3.Post-2015:What role for business?
Goal areas:1. Economic transformation and jobs
2. Transparency and accountability agenda (e.g. under governance goal)
Delivery:3. Delivery through partnerships (e.g. leverage
expertise/R&D)
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Post-2015: Areas relevant for business
engagement
1. Economic transformation and jobs
• Include ec transformation & jobs in an opening statement
• Use reporting on relevant goals, targets and indicators to change behaviours– E.g. a goal/target on jobs, – Optional indicators for enablers of growth
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Post-2015: Areas relevant for business
engagement
2. Transparency and accountability agenda
• Propose a separate accountability framework for businesses (building on existing frameworks,e.g.GRI)
• Step up work on human and natural capital method
• Recommend governments set mandatory reporting for large businesses as a listing requirement
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Post-2015: Areas relevant for business
engagement
3. Partnerships agenda
• Include guidance on ‘good’ partnerships, drawing on the experience and evidence to date.
• A streamlined UN process to assess the case for a partnership?
• To ensure trust is built, make it a prerequisite for
(large) firms involved to disclose information (e.g. following GRI)
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