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Business and Decent Work In Conflict Zones: A "Why?" and "How?" Guide
This short guide is intended to support companies operating or envisaging operations in areas ridden by tensions and conflict. It offers practical tips on how to build up a more peaceful and productive environment within the company itself and in its surrounding context, based on the ILO's "Decent...
Private Sector Toolkit for Working with Youth, UN technical paper
The Private Sector Toolkit for Working with Youth is part of a series of technical papers aimed both at strengthening youth participation at all levels through cooperation among various stakeholders, as well as at highlighting the role of youth as agents of development. Building on Youth...
Bellagio Initiative Summit
The Bellagio Initiative aims to contribute to the development of a new framework for philanthropic and international development collaboration in pursuit of human wellbeing in the 21st century. Following a summit held in Italy, the Initiative published an aide memoire capturing the three key...
A discussion paper on social intrapreneurship
This paper produced by the Doughty Centre at the Cranfield University examines the potential value of social intrapreneurship, and provisionally defines a social intrapreneur as "a person within a large corporation who takes direct initiative for innovation which addresses social or environmental...
Moving On Toolbook - a guide to effective management of partnership exits and transitions
The Moving On Toolbook, produced in collaboration with Vodafone, UK Foundation and Nike, is the fifth in the series, and focuses on the exit aspects of a partnership. It also looks at the indications of success that can be associated with exits, achieving goals and reaching conclusions.
A briefing note for supply chain managers & technical end users on oil, gas and mining (OGM) projects
This briefing note provides supply chain managers and technical end users on oil, gas and mining (OGM) projects in low income countries with practical guidance on maximising the involvement of local enterprises in the project supply chain.
Public-Private Partnerships: A Critical Tool for Driving Corporate Citizenship
This article, released by the General Electric Company, offers some fundamentals and keys to effective and good public-private partnerships.
Volunteering for Impact: Best Practices in International Corporate Volunteering
This paper produced for Pfizer and the Brookings Institute seeks to explore and understand the lessons learned among major corporations whose employees have engaged in international volunteering. While multiple studies have been published on domestic corporate volunteering activities, only a few...
Under the spotlight: Building a better understanding of global business-NGO partnerships
Focussing specifically on partnerships between business and NGOs, this paper aims to play its part in: * Revealing partnership potential; * Addressing the challenges that working outside one’s comfort zone invariably brings; and * Pushing forward the partnering agenda so that it starts to have...
Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) and the private sector
Global Hand has drafted a brief guide for business engagement with Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR).