9.00 – 9.10: Introduction to Day 3 9.10 – 10.10: 4 presentations: partnership challenges…

1. Day 3 - agenda 9.00 – 9.10: Introduction to Day 3 9.10 – 10.10: 4 presentations: partnership challenges… 10.10 – 10.25: coffee break 10.25 – 11.30: Summary C.O. 12 month action plans 11.30 – 13.00: Action plan for Community of Practice 13.00 – 13.15: Participant feedback 13.15 – 13.30: Conclusion of workshop 13.30: end of workshop and lunch A G E N D A

2. Partnership Challenges Break-out group presentations: • What you consider to be the key challenges in developing business partnerships for development • Methods/ tactics to overcome these challenges, and • Further information and support needed to overcome challenges C H A L L E N G E S

3. C.O. summary 12 month action plans Expectations: Today: - Type up draft summary 12 month action plan (into template). By end Nov: • Have discussed with RR • C.O. learning session on private sector partnerships • Quick email feeding back to regional practice how RR/ C.O. meetings went + any edits to summary 12 month C.O. action plan

4. Break-out groups Group 1: • Armenia • BiH • Kosovo • Lithuania • Russia Group 2: • Azerbaijan • Bulgaria • Georgia • Serbia and Montenegro C H A L L E N G E S Group 3: • Belarus • Kazakhstan • Latvia • Macedonia • Ukraine Group 4: - Croatia • Kyrgyzstan • Moldova • Poland • Turkey

5. Our ‘Community of Practice’ Area’s we might consider… Skills development/ training Internal RBEC communication/ coordination Priorities for building the RBEC C.O. Delivering joint sub-regional projects Procedures/ internal UNDP processes Coordinating our relationships with businesses N E T W O R K External UNDP communication/ coordination Assessing development impact

6. 1. Internal RBEC communication • Day-to-day how should C.O., RBEC RBx and BRSP communicate together: • New queries: when contact RBEC? when contact BRSP? • Who within RBEC? Who within BRSP? • Information to be collected/ shared? • What do you find useful? What is not useful? • e.g. RBEC survey/ status update report • Should this be done regularly? How frequently? • What are the priority ways for us to keep in touch? • RBEC intranet – what should go on this? • RBEC newsletter? (how frequent?) • ‘RBEC business-net’ email group? • What priorities for Andrew based in New York? • How can he best act as your advocate within RBEC HQ? with BRSP? with other regional Bureaux? With BDP? Priorities for building the RBEC C.O. N E T W O R K

7. 2. Skills development/ training • Is an RBEC regional training plan a priority? • If yes, what might an effective, yet realistic, plan look like? • Skills needed to increase UNDP effectiveness? • Training workshops going forward? • What should training courses cover? • Internal or external events? • How frequently? Who to be invited? • What, if any, role for electronic learning? • Should we develop staff exchanges? • If yes, what needs to be done? • Budget available • Prioritizing/ planning missions from BRSP/ RBEC? Priorities for building the RBEC C.O. N E T W O R K

8. 3. Joint projects/ joint RM • Is regional/ sub-regional delivery of private sector projects a priority? • If yes, what will encourage greater cross-C.O. cooperation? • A regional/ sub-regional ‘private sector & MDGs’ event has been discussed between Kalman and Bruce Jenks: • Budget available • Possible aim: to articulate business contribution to achieving MDGs Suggestions on what this event might look like? Priorities for building the RBEC C.O. N E T W O R K

9. 4. Procedures/ UNDP processes • Does UNDP’s standard MoU (Memorandum of Understanding) need to be developed/ improved? • If yes, how? • Does UNDP’s standard CSA (cost sharing agreement) need to be developed/ improved? • If yes, how? Priorities for building the RBEC C.O. N E T W O R K

10. 5. Coordinating relationships with businesses • For multinationals based in several RBEC countries: • Is it a priority to co-ordinate approaches to these firms? • If yes, how might we best co-ordinate? • Do you want RBEC HQ/ BRSP to assist in developing relationships with new businesses? • Approaching multinationals with New York HQs? • See listing of New York HQed multinationals (last tab in file) • Assistance in approaching European multinationals: • Bratislava regional centre? Brussels liaison office? Geneva liaison office? UNDP Nordic? • How best to use current UNDP relationships? • SMT listing of current relationships (2nd from last tab in file) • All UNDP partnership relationships document (last tab in file) • Is a UNDP ‘Client Relationship Management’ system a priority? Priorities for building the RBEC C.O. N E T W O R K

11. 6. External UNDP communication • Priorities for RBEC C.O. coordination and communication with: • Other UN agencies? • The wider international community? • Civil Society Organizations (CSOs)? • What should go on the new RBEC internet site? • Other creative ideas for external communication? Priorities for building the RBEC C.O. N E T W O R K

12. 7. Assessing development impact • Business partnership projects are often not about Resource Mobilization • Is it a priority to develop new approaches that recognize the impact of business advocacy/ partnership work? • If yes, how might this be done? Priorities for building the RBEC C.O. N E T W O R K