The NGO Committees of Financing for Development and Social Development discussion: The pros and cons of partnerships and private sector’s growing role in the Post-2015 Development Agenda

Barbara AdamsNew York, 2 October 2014(Preview of GPF study)

One Year On: An open letter from former members of the UN Secretary-General's High-Level Panel of Eminent Persons on the Post-2015 Agenda…

6. ..It is essential to harness the power of the private sector for sustainable development. Business provides 60% of GDP in developing countries, 80% of capital flows to them, and 90% of jobs - so responsible private sector partnership is key for sustainable development.

One Year On: An open letter from former members of the UN Secretary-General's High-Level Panel of Eminent Persons on the Post-2015 AgendaThis week, the countdown begins in earnest. There is now just one year until the summit where – we hope – heads of state and government will agree on a new global agenda for inclusive, sustainable development to build upon the Millennium Declaration and the Millennium Develop One Year On: An open letter from former members of the UN Secretary-General's High-Level Panel of Eminent Persons on the Post-2015 Agenda This week, the countdown begins in earnest. There is now just one year until the summit where – we hope – heads of state and government will agree on a new global agenda for inclusive, sustainable development to build upon the Millennium Declaration and the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). The stakes are huge: for eradicating poverty, for global sustainability, for human rights, and for the world’s ability to address shared global challenges. Two years ago, we came together as a group of 27 women and men from diverse backgrounds: business and government, civil society, science, and more. We recognized that business as usual would deliver neither the eradication of poverty, nor environmental sustainability. Instead, we argued in our report, a paradigm shift is needed, driven by five transformative shifts. ment Goals (MDGs). The stakes are huge: for eradicating poverty, for global sustainability, for human rights, and for the world’s ability to address shared global challenges.Two years ago, we came together as a group of 27 women and men from diverse backgrounds: business and government, civil society, science, and more. We recognized that business as usual would deliver neither the eradication of poverty, nor environmental sustainability. Instead, we argued in our report, a paradigm shift is needed, driven by five transformative shifts.

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Share of non-core contributions and earmarked trust funds in UN finance is growing

Since 1998 UNFIP received $ 1.3 billion from the UN Foundation …

Projects approved by the UN Foundation

Global Compact

Two key entry points have been:

UNFIP Budget 1998-2013

... but UNFIPs role has changed. Originally it served as the exclusive interface for UN Foundation financing.In the last decade, under the institutional umbrella of the UN Office for Partnerships, it has focused increasingly on developing PPPs and providing “partnership services”.

As a result there is an expansive list of corporations that have established partnerships and/or alliances with or through the United Nations Office for Partnerships, including: Accenture Africa Practice Alcatel-Lucent American Electrical Power American Express Aveda Corporation Aviva Bank of America BASF Bayer Bertelsmann Bristol-Myers Squibb British Petroleum BT Global Services Carrefour Cisco Systems Citigroup Clorox The Coca-Cola Company Crescent Petroleum Company Daimler De Beers Dell Deutsche Bank Deutsche Post Domini Investment Fund Dow Chemical Company E-CARE Électricité de France Eli Lilly Ericsson Expedia FedEx Fortis Fujitsu General Electric Geneva Group International GlaxoSmithKline Globalegacy International Goldman Sachs Group Google G-Star Raw Hewlett Packard HSBC Holdings ING Group Intel International Business Machines Johnson & Johnson Kraft Foods Lenovo Group Marvel Entertainment Merck & Co Metro Microsoft Migros Mitsubishi Mitsubishi Electric Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group Motorola MTV National Basketball Association Nestlé Nike Nokia Oracle PepsiCo Pfizer PKN Orlen Group Procter & Gamble Rio Tinto Group Roche Group Royal DSM Royal Dutch Shell Royal Philips Electronics Ruder Finn Sanofi-Aventis Siemens Skype Société Générale Standard Chartered Bank Statoil Hydro Suez Sumitomo Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group Swiss Reinsurance Tata Steel Telefónica Tesco Time Warner Toyota Motor Unilever Unisys United Airlines United Parcel Service Verizon Communications VH1 Vodafone Wal-Mart Wyeth Pharmaceuticals

The opening to the corporate sector has become a UN system-wide phenomenon, generating hundreds of diverse “partnerships”, such as:

... and the proliferation of “Global Partnerships”

• Every Woman Every Child

• The Sustainable Energy for All initiative

• The Zero Hunger Challenge

• The Global Education First Initiative

• Scaling Up Nutrition

[1] UN Doc (A/68/202) p.10 -11

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Barbara AdamsNew York| 2 October 2014

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