How corporate philanthropy can contribute to advancing the Millennium Development Goals Presentation

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How corporate philanthropy can contribute to
advancing the Millennium Development Goals
Presentation at ECOSOC Chamber Monday,
February 25, 2008New York

• Kathy Calvin
• Executive Vice President
• UN Foundation

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Partnership Functions

• Advocacy Promote a cause or place an issue on
  policy agenda
• Operational Provide project support, resource
  mobilization and service
  delivery to meet discrete needs
• Capacity Building - Develop skills, institutional
  means and resource bases for
  sustainable problem-solving
• Normative Norms/standards setting and diffusion
• Joint Regulation - Bridge governance gaps
  overcome governance failures

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• Institutional Challenges for UN partnerships
• Some UN entities lack formal mechanisms to
  identify or select suitable partners
• PPPs can be better integrated into UN entities
  core programs
• Managing PPPs faces significant bureaucratic,
  budgetary and cultural obstacles in UN,
  especially at country levels
• There is no system-wide policy for PPPs, nor is
  there a process to disseminate lessons learned