1 Corporate Social Responsibility & The Millennium Development Goals.

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Corporate Social Responsibility &

The Millennium Development Goals


The Crisis

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US$37,610 POVERTY: More than one billion

people in the world live on less than a dollar a day. Another 1.8 billion struggle to survive on less than $2 per day.

ILLITERACY: Around the world, a total of 114 million children do not get even a basic education and 584 million women are illiterate.

PRE-MATURE DEATH: Life expectancy in sub-Saharan Africa is less than 55 years – and dropping.

WATER AND SANITATION: Four out of every ten people in the world don't have access even to a simple latrine; and two in ten have no source of safe drinking water.

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The Crisis in Global Health

Every year >11 million children die; 6 M of preventable diseases>50% of Africans suffer from water related diseases

HIV/AIDS~40 M people are infected with HIV (>25 in Africa and >8 in Asia)Every year 3 M people die of AIDSEvery year 5 M people become infected with HIV

MalariaEvery year 2-3 million people die of Malaria

TBIn 2002,TB killed 2 million people



The world’s first

shared set of integrated,

quantitative and time-bound goals for poverty reduction



Goal 1: Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger

Goal 2: Achieve universal primary education

Goal 3: Promote gender equality and empower women

Goal 4: Reduce child mortality

Goal 5: Improve maternal health

Goal 6: Halt and begin to reverse the spread of HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases

Goal 7: Ensure environmental sustainability

Goal 8: Develop a Global Partnership for Development


United Nations Millennium Project

Mission:

– To develop and recommend an operational framework of implementation that will allow all developing countries to meet the MDGs by 2015.

Structure:

• Advisory body to UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan

• Directed by Prof. Jeffrey Sachs, Special Advisor to the Secretary-General on the MDGs.

• Bulk of work performed by 10 thematically-oriented Task Forces of experts and leading practitioners.

• Small secretariat housed at UNDP facilitates work of Task Forces and ensures coordination across Project.


Millennium Project Focus Countries

Tajikistan

Yemen

Ethiopia Kenya

Senegal

Ghana

Dominican Republic

NigeriaMaliMalawiRwandaUgandaTanzania


Achieving

the Millennium Development Goals

at Community Level in Rural Africa


Millennium Village - Sauri

Health Conditions:MalariaHIVTyphoidAnemiaDiarrheaMacro/Micro nutrient deficiencies

Interventions:Bed-netsARV-programSchool mealsMacro/Micro nutrient programAgricultural suppliesHygiene/SanitationMaternal Child Health CenterVehicle


Sauri – Education Committee

Interventions: Free school meals Health promotion Hygiene/Sanitation First computer

Rankings:From 68th in the district in 2004

to 4th in 2005


How much???


Private Sector Partners

Nike– Sponsors a village, $1,5 million over five years

Sumitomo ChemicalBed nets for 112 villages in ten countries

RabobankSponsors a village and offers microcredit

MonsantoHybrid seed for farmers in 3 countries


Main ways business can engage:

Core business practices

Creating employment

Developing new products and ways to deliver affordable goods and services

Enable market opportunities

Address the risks to human resources and assets or capital

Public – private partnerships

Business and philanthropic activity that has an economic rationale


Main ways business can engage:

Philanthropy through investment

Cash donations or in kind contributions

Public policy dialogue

Transparent and responsible business engagement

Government advising on areas of expertise


Hunger


Global Distribution of Drought Risk(mortality)


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Business Fighting Hunger:

Increasing food production and strengthening market systems in starving

Regions (Ericsson, Visa)

Improving nutrition through fortified products and consumer education

(particularly mothers and young children) (TetraPak, Unilever, Nestle)

Strengthening government’s commitment and capacity to act against hunger

Building public and political support for increased investment in hunger

reduction

Partnering with public agencies and NGOs to strengthen their capacity


Diseases


Geographic Overlap of Hookworm and Malaria


Business Fighting Malaria:

New technologies– Less expensive– Innovative integrated vector management solutions– Transfer technology and build local capacity to reduce costs

and delivery time

Supply Chain and logistics– Share tools and skills with the public sector to improve

efficiency– Leverage distribution networks and retail channels to increase

access

Community education


Business Fighting Malaria

Pharmaceutical Companies

vaccines (GlaxoSmithKline)

drugs (Novartis, Sanofi-Aventis, Pfizer)

diagnostics (BD)

Bed-net producers (Sumitomo, Vestergaard)

Virgin Unite

ExxonMobil

Unilever

Sun International


Why business should invest in the Millennium Development

Goals?


Benefits for Business

Reaching the Millennium Development Goals

would create a more prosperous, stable

and inclusive economy which forms the

foundation of a thriving business sector.


Thank You

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