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Corporations and NGOs Pressure, tension, apprehension and effects, results and outcomes. Title. Sub-title. Date 26-05-08. Name Speaker Gine Zwart. Contents. Based on core quadrant game some food for thought: a few challenges and pitfalls for NGOs

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  1. Corporations and NGOs Pressure, tension, apprehension and effects, results and outcomes Title Sub-title Date 26-05-08 Name Speaker Gine Zwart

  2. Contents Based on core quadrant game some food for thought: a few challenges and pitfalls for NGOs when aiming for change from the side of the private sector

  3. Core quadrant example

  4. Elements needed when engaging with companies Among others: • Mutual respect • Orientation on results • Honest information • Right to be heard – obligation to listen • Agreements

  5. Mutual respect Quality of NGO’s: Idealistic Empathy Pitfall of NGO’s: soft, vague, unrealistic; old fashioned, unworldly Allergy of NGO’s: hard, short term, financial, short-sighted Challenge for NGO’s: Businesslike Clarity

  6. Results oriented Quality of NGO’s: Confrontational Pitfall of NGO’s: Short term scoring, aggressive Clash of interests Allergy of NGO’s: Sleeping with the enemy, walking along, sweet talk, being compromised Challenge for NGO’s: Constructive Seeing the other side

  7. Honest information Quality of NGO’s: Demand for Transparancy Pitfall of NGO’s: Aim in itself, processes too long with too many actors Allergy of NGO’s: Being silenced, hidden agenda’s , non-democratic Challenge for NGO’s: Deal with confidentiality

  8. Right to be heard Obligation to listen Quality of NGO’s: Principled Pitfall of NGO’s: anti, hardliner, stubborn, prejudiced, one-sided Allergy of NGO’s: Letting go of principles, leaving the moral high grounds Aim to agree Challenge for NGO’s: Vigilant, accurate, precise

  9. Mutual trust and agreements Quality of NGO’s: Flexible Pitfall of NGO’s: Inconsistent; Non committal; too participatory Allergy of NGO’s: Stifling, overpowering oppressive, too directive Challenge for NGO’s: Contractual binding Building trust

  10. Why is it essential to aim our work on the coporate sector too? Our previous minister of development corporation (Herfkens): “Women would rather be exploited by the market than excluded by the market...” It is our analysis that women (and men) don’t want either and that they have the right to neither be exploited NOR excluded. Besides: The world is rapidly changing, national governments have less and less to say, poverty reduction is no longer the domain of NGOs only and power balance is changing in the world

  11. Key words • Chain responsibility • Social and human rights • Transparency and accountability • International agreed laws and standards (ILO/OECD) • Inclusion • North and South

  12. Concluding • Corporate sector is part of the fabric and foundation of society. The challenge is to ensure that its economic contribution is matched by its adherence to the values of society. • It can not do this without civil society world-wide • This makes finding ways of working along or with each other not only a strategic choice but essential for both corporations and civil society actors to meet their objectives • Nobody said it would be easy………..

  13. All have different roles to play You can do well byHa! Prove it Canary in a Mutual benefit doing good. coal mine Thank you! and have a Wonderfull World Wide Week

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