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Are you in agreement with the the Partnership Declaration? Are there any important areas missing? Do you have concrete evidence to help prove or disprove the basis of the Declaration? How can the messages in the Declaration be spread?
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Steve Cranston, Steve Cranston Associates
Perspective: Practitioner
Date: Wednesday, 27th September | Creating and sustaining good partnerships - especially those that cross sectors and discplines - is one of the most urgent priorities.
We need far more case studies of partnerhips that have been successful as well as more honest debriefs on ones that have hit problems.
I am involved with a partnership between a multinational renewable energy developer and social enterprise - working on bringing forward a windfarm development that will deliver environmental, economic and social returns for both shareholders and local communities.
It can be done - so why does best practice tend to languish as isolated examples? | Elaine Cohen, Potential One ltd
Perspective: Consultant
Date: Wednesday, 27th September | I view multistakeholder partnerships as critical to creating optimal levels of positive social change. My Company consults to a multi-stakeholder initiative in Israel which is making significant progres in achieving unprecedented levels of stakeholder collaboration. The process is not easy, requires perserverence and unlimited energy, but the leverage created through partnering is tremendous. I fully support the declaration. | Anonymous
Perspective: NGO / practitioner
Date: Thursday, 28th September | This is a fantastic idea! I look forward to seeing the number of signatories grow... | Linda Cruse, Associate IBLF
Perspective: Creating public-private partnerships
Date: Tuesday, 3rd October |
I read your partnership statement and I felt that you had really captured something very special there and wanted to congratulate you and your co-creaters. Excellent.
I have been based in Thailand as an Associate of IBLF assisting with the formation of The Thailand Business Partnership post-tsunami.
CSR and Partnerships are relatively new in this part of Asia and
I have been developing a partnership between corporate members and a royal NGO under the office of HRH Princess Sirindhorn that covers remote border hilltribes in Thailand.
The NGO went from being most suspicious of us, to welcoming us to be their first ever public- private paternership. Participants from three companies and myself have just returned from a three day field trip to a very challenging area on the Thai/Laos border with the NGO as our hosts.
With a very clear focus to assist this rather desperate community, it was very exciting to see the barriers disappear and the understanding of each others assets, strengths and weaknesses unfold.
I intend to read your partnership statement out at our next partnership meeting as I feel it encapsulates most clearly what partnership is all about. Thank you.
Again congratulations.
Linda Cruse Associate IBLF
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| Laurinda Seabra, Empowerment Gateway Group
Perspective: Hybrid Organisation incorporating business and NGO
Date: Saturday, 7th October | In South Africa during the past week, from the 4 to the 6th of October, we run a series of workshops promoting the integration of the economic, social and environment values into a holistic platform; we promoted the formulation of new metric systems, new policies and the implementation models showcasing the business case. The theme for the workshops was | Dubravka Turkalj, Croatia Airlines
Perspective: Business
Date: Friday, 3rd November | In this period I am dedicated to a spreading the message from the Declaration and the Declaration itself.
As I am responsible for sustainable development within the Croatia Airlines and further has the connection to the international aviation area, and am an active member of the governing council of The Croatian Business Councile for Sustainable Development, HRPSOR (which is a member of the WBCSD) and am a co-chair of the Association for CSR within the Croatian Chamber of Economy (whose membership is obliged within Croatia) I have alredy spread the Declaration and message to:
- 30 CEOs of the leading companys within Croatia (the biggest of them are parts of the global corporations), members of The HRPSOR and the same number of their executives and/or specialist dealing with CSR
- the leaders of the Croatian Chamber of Economy
- the leaders of the Association of the Croatian Business Counsellors
- leading Croatian counselling agencies dealing with the CSR and sustainable development
- UNDP in Croatia
- leading Croatian NGO for partnerships - ODRAZ (with the mailing list of about 100 addresses
- USAID and AED in Croatia
- included it the main educational programme for CSR for the whole Croatian society
- in the German Travel Association, dealing with the sustainable development in Tourism
- to the American Chamber of Commerce in Croatia
- personally to CEOs of Ericsson Nikola Tesla and Podravka
- many of them told me that they have forwarded the message and Declaration to their mailing lists.
In the near future I intent to send it to:
- all members of the Association for CSR within the Chamber of Economy (cca 300) and put in on the web of the Association
- put it on the web site of the Croatia Airlines
- Faculty of Economics, Zagreber University
- some other faculties
- Croatian Association of Employeers
- Association of the Croatian Trade Unions
- some Ministries and governmental bodies
- to the Association of the Croatian journalist in tourism (CROAJET) which is a member of the world association of the jounalists in tourism (FIJET)
- to the association of the Croatian journalists and they will get it also through the education about CSR, which we plan to do early next year
- another personal contacts with the CEOs and influencing people in business, politics and civil society. | Renato Gamboa, National Irrigation Administration
Perspective: policy-maker, practioner and advocate
Date: Thursday, 9th November | My involvement is developing capacities of all stakeholders in irrigation and agricultural communities in the whole of rural Philippines.
The Declaration shall be basis of our development programs to enhance social capital and institutional reforms in rural governance. | Maria Lourdes Arcenas, Mindanao Business Council (Philippines)
Perspective: Adviser-Sustainable Development
Date: Tuesday, 14th November |
It has been one year since I participated in the PBAS and I am fully convinced that only through partnerships can we Mindanawans achieve the elusive goal of peace and development. The Mindanao Business Council is making headway in its campaign for Sustainable and Responsible Investments (SRI) because of partnerships with the various stakeholder pillar institutions and organizations in Mindanao -- national government, civil society, academe, church, local government, women, private sector. Together Mindanao is rising to build a strong middle class, achieve peace and good governance through people-to-people dialogues and concerted initiatives.
I am personally committed to continue to build partnerships in every oppotunity possible as the means to creating a more positive future for our children and generations to come.
Let us support the Partnership Declaration with all our heart and action. That is truly living sustainability. Mabuhay!
| MONJUR HOSSAIN, PMTC (Bangladesh) Limited
Perspective: Business
Date: Sunday, 11th March | I have just joined the race as one of the practitioner of Partnership Brokering after completing my training.
I am interested to know more in this respect |
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