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Post-MDGs: What role for business?

Post-MDGs: What role for business?. Paula Lucci – Research Fellow. 16 th November 2013. Today…. 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

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Post-MDGs: What role for business?

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  1. Post-MDGs: What role for business? Paula Lucci – Research Fellow 16th November 2013

  2. Today… • 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?

  3. 1.MDGsWhat have the MDGs achieved for us?

  4. 1.MDGs Common criticisms Means v ends Process Bilateral ODA from DAC donors

  5. 1.MDGsWere private sector actors involved? 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)

  6. 2.Business and developmentExamples of Impact

  7. 2.Business and developmentExamples of initiatives Core business Standard compliance CSR Key challenge: measuring contribution

  8. 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

  9. 3.Post-2015:What role for business? Goal areas: • Economic transformation and jobs • Transparency and accountability agenda (e.g. under governance goal) Delivery: • Delivery through partnerships (e.g. leverage expertise/R&D)

  10. Post-2015: Areas relevant for business engagement 1. Economic transformation and jobs • Include ectransformation & 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

  11. 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

  12. 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)

  13. ODI is the UK’s leading independent think tank on international development and humanitarian issues. We aim to inspire and inform policy and practice to reduce poverty by locking together high-quality applied research and practical policy advice.The views presented here are those of the speaker, and do not necessarily represent the views of ODI or our partners. Overseas Development Institute 203 Blackfriars Road, London, SE1 8NJ T: +44 207 9220 300 www.odi.org.uk p.lucci@odi.org.uk

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