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Title
Corporations and NGOs Pressure, tension,
apprehension and effects, results and outcomes

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Name Speaker Gine Zwart
Date 26-05-08
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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

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Core quadrant example
   
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Elements needed when engaging with companies

• Among others
• Mutual respect
• Orientation on results
• Honest information
• Right to be heard obligation to listen
• Agreements

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Mutual respect
   
Quality of NGOs Idealistic Empathy
Pitfall of NGOs soft, vague, unrealistic old
fashioned, unworldly
Challenge for NGOs Businesslike Clarity
Allergy of NGOs hard, short term, financial,
short-sighted
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Results oriented
Quality of NGOs Confrontational
Pitfall of NGOs Short term scoring, aggressive
Clash of interests
Challenge for NGOs Constructive Seeing the
other side
Allergy of NGOs Sleeping with the enemy,
walking along, sweet talk, being compromised
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Honest information
Quality of NGOs Demand for Transparancy
Pitfall of NGOs Aim in itself, processes too
long with too many actors
Challenge for NGOs Deal with confidentiality
Allergy of NGOs Being silenced, hidden agendas
, non-democratic
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Right to be heard Obligation to listen
Quality of NGOs Principled
Pitfall of NGOs anti, hardliner, stubborn,
prejudiced, one-sided
Challenge for NGOs Vigilant, accurate, precise
Allergy of NGOs Letting go of principles,
leaving the moral high grounds Aim to agree
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Mutual trust and agreements
Quality of NGOs Flexible
Pitfall of NGOs Inconsistent Non committal
too participatory
Challenge for NGOs Contractual binding Building
trust
Allergy of NGOs Stifling, overpowering oppressiv
e, too directive
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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) dont
  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

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Key words

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

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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..

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All have different roles to play

• You can do well by Ha! Prove it
  Canary in a Mutual benefit
• doing good. coal mine
• Thank you!
• and have a Wonderfull World Wide Week