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Welcome
Business Partners for Development (BPD) was
a project-based initiative set up to study, support and promote strategic
examples of partnerships involving business, civil society and government
working together for the development of communities around the world. It was
created, believing that tri-sector partnerships could provide long-term benefits
to the business sector and at the same time meet the social objectives of civil
society and the state by helping to create stable social and financial
environments.
BPD demonstrated
that tri-sector partnerships:
- can provide win-win benefits to all three parties;
- can be much more widely used throughout the world;
- can be scaled up to national and regional levels.
BPD Partners decided to
spend three years working intensively with 30 "focus projects" (i.e.
pilots) in 20 countries and grouped into four "clusters". The
purpose of the Business Partners for Development "focus projects"
was to share practical experience building partnerships and to learn together
how to achieve the greatest impact on businesses and communities.
The BPD Clusters:
Each cluster was designed
with its own specific objectives and vision for the partnership:
- Natural
Resources Cluster: (oil, gas
and mining companies) to develop guidelines / systems / structures for
dealing with community issues and mitigating risk by optimizing
development impact on host communities
through tri-sector partnerships. Co-convenors: BP Amoco, WMC Resources Ltd,
CARE International and the World Bank Group.
- Water & Sanitation Cluster:
to identify specific lessons learned about partnerships from existing
projects which are providing responsive and affordable water services to
urban poor and to demonstrate that these can be replicated and scaled-up
to national and regional levels. Co-convenors: Générale des Eaux (Vivendi),
WaterAid and the World Bank Group.
- Global Partnership for Youth Development:
to identify and share what works in building successful partnerships for
youth, the next generation of labourers and consumers. Then to create/work
through existing national and global infrastructures to mobilize
significant new resources in order to strengthen and scale up best
practices in youth development. Co-convenors: Kellogg's, the International
Youth Foundation and the World Bank Group.
- Global Road Safety Partnership:
to reduce deaths, injuries, disabilities and associated social costs of
road traffic crashes through collaboration and coordination of road safety
activities. Co-convenors: the International Federation of Red Cross and
Red Crescent Societies and the World Bank Group.
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