Public Private Partnerships

to Upscale & Accelerate Sustainable Trade

Daan de WitPartos Workshop14 oktober 2010

Content

• Context

• CSR 2.0

• IDH: Potential – sectors – phases in transformation

• Cooperation: conditions – drivers – obstacles – lessons

• Discussion

Context of IDH

• Companies: growing scope of controll, more international, growing issues on integrity and social responsibility

• NGOs: confrontation and campaigning & cooperating

• Governments: withdrawing

• Public: growing awareness on sustainability

• 2050, 9 billion people – scarcity of agro commodities

CSR 2.0

• Business agenda: securing supply of commodities

• Sustainability is core business for front running multinationalsSustainability must be profitableScale is important 100% commitment

• NGO agenda: reaching millennium goals

• Merging agenda’s!!

Key ingredients of IDH

• Market demand driven programs

• High ambitions: market transformation

• Coalitions of the willing (multinationals, NGOs and governments)

• Intersectoral learning

• Endorsed by business, unions, NGOs and governments

The potential for market transformation

Demand driven programsMultinationals/retailers go for 100% sustainable sourcing

Public facilitation:Sustainable procurement, publicinvestments, laws & regulations

Private investments:Multinationals, retailers & banksinvest in sustainable sourcing

Supply chain upgrading:Civil society organizations trainand certify sustainable farmers

IDH programs and goals

Coalitions of the willing: Conditions

To pursue common goals

To join resources

To capitalize respective strength

Controll, Transparency and Trust

Compatibility – Capability – Commitment - Controll

Coalitions of the willing: Drivers

Businesses: legitimacy, reputation, status & recognition, securing commodities sourcing, market share

NGO: funding, greater scope of controll, reaching MDGs.

Inadequate understanding of what parties can offer

Unwillingness to compromise

Ineffective institutionalisation

No recognition of differences

Mutual distrust on motivation

Different governance drivers – plans & vision v.s. profit & profile

Coalitions of the willing: Obstacles

Acknowledging differences

Mutual understanding on goals

Understanding the process & dynamics

Coalitions of the willing: Solutions

Understanding of what parties can offer

Willingness to compromise

Institutionalisation

Recognition of differences

Mutual trust

Join resources and capitalize respective strength

Coalitions of the willing: Result