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GLOBAL COMPACT
POLICY DIALOGUE:
Supply Chain
Management and Partnerships
DRAFT AGENDA
12-13 June 2003
Room 4, UNHQ
Headquarters, New York |
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June 12 ALL
PARTICIPANTS – Room 4_ _______
9:00am - 9:30am
Registration
9:30am – 10:45am
Plenary Session
Chair:
Mark Malloch Brown,
Administrator
UN Development
Programme
George Heller,
President & Chief Executive Officer,
Hudson’s Bay Company
Barbara Krumsiek,
President & Chief Executive Officer, Calvert
Mike Posner,
Executive
Director,
Lawyer’s Committee for
Human Rights
10:45am -11:00am
Coffee Break
11:00am – 6:00pm
Participants Divided into Parallel Sessions:
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- Supply Chain Management – Room 6
II –Partnerships – Room 4
June 12 I - SUPPLY CHAIN
MANAGEMENT SESSION – Room 6__
11:00am - 12:30pm
Panel Discussion: The Global Compact Principles in the Supply Chain
Moderator:
Jim Thomas,
Executive
Director - Health, Safety, Environment & Business Continuity,
Novartis Corporation
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What do
the GC principles mean and how do they translate into corporate practice
throughout the supply chain?
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Company
Experiences in Implementing the 9 Principles
BMW Group’s
Sustainability Approach to Procurement Procedures
Guido Prick,
Group Representative for Environmental/Sustainability Management Systems,
BMW Group
Eskom's Black Economic
Empowerment Programme
Wendy Poulton,
Corporate Sustainability & Environment Manager, Eskom
Promoting Supplier Compliance to the Nine GC
Principles
Dal LaMagna,
Chief Executive Officer, Tweezerman
Partnership in the
Supply Chain in Morocco
Natalia Manso,
Corporate and Social Responsibilty,
Inditex
12:30pm – 2:00pm
Lunch Break – UNHQ Cafeteria.
2:00pm –
3:00pm Panel Discussion: Strengthening the Capacity of Suppliers
Moderator:
Peter Brew,
Director of Operational Policy, International Business Leaders Forum (IBLF)
Suppliers’ Perspective
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What
skills and/or resources do suppliers need to meet social and environmental
standards? What is the business case?
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What are
the key challenges faced by suppliers?
MNC Perspective
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How best
to incorporate empowerment, capacity-building and training rather than an
exclusively top-down enforcement strategy?
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What are
the key challenges faced?
Rick Darling,
President, Li & Fung USA
Human Values Chain
Sergio Feliciangeli,
Chief Executive Officer, ALFESA, Paraguay
Peter Whitford,
Chief
Executive Officer,
Wet Seal Inc.
former President
Worldwide,
Disney Stores
Mil Niepold,
Director of
Policy, Verité
June 12 I -
SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT SESSION ________
3:00pm –
5:00pm Break-Out Groups Session: Challenges & Opportunities
along the Supply Chain
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A focus
on the key issues raised during the two plenary sessions
5:00pm-6:00pm
Plenary Session
Report back from
break-out groups
6:00pm
Cocktails – Millennium UN Plaza Hotel, One United
Nations Plaza, 29th fl
(44th St. at
First Ave, 212-758-1234)
June 12 II -
PARTNERSHIPS SESSION – ROOM 4 ______ ___
11.00am – 12.30pm
Panel Discussion: The Building Blocks of Partnerships
Moderator:
Kerstin Leitner, Resident Representative, UNDP China
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Introduction to the Global Compact
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Principles, criteria and definitions of partnership
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How
partnerships contribute to corporate social responsibility goals
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How
partnerships contribute to development
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Practical tools
Georg Kell,
Executive Head,
Global
Compact Office
Adrian Hodges,
Managing
Director, Corporate & Partnership Development,
IBLF
Philippe Rabit,
Advisor to the
Chairman,
Carrefour
Bradford Gentry,
Lecturer in Sustainable Development, Yale University
Michael Warner,
Research Fellow, Overseas Development Institute
12.30pm – 2.00pm
Lunch Break – UNHQ Cafeteria.
2.00pm – 3.30pm
Panel Discussion: How to work with the UN
Moderator: Nathalie Hahn, President, Hahn Associates
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Opportunities for co-operation: The Millennium Development Goals
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The
private sector perspective on working with the UN
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The
experience of the United Nations Development Programme
Bruce Jenks,
Director for Strategic Partnerships, UNDP
Erin Walsh,
Manager of International Strategies and Partnerships, Cisco Systems
Francois Kaisin,
Director,
Global Compact and WBCSD Liaison Delegate, Suez
Sirkka Korpela,
Director Business Partnerships, UNDP
3.30pm – 3.45pm
Coffee Break
June 12 II -
PARTNERSHIPS SESSION _____
3.45pm – 5.45pm
Discussions around the UN – Business Partnership Project Examples
These sessions will
delve into the individual experiences of companies that have formed concrete
partnerships with various UN agencies. Presentations will highlight how the
relationships were formed, the negotiation processes, as well as the business
benefits and developmental outcomes of the projects. Specifically, through open
discussions led by the partners we hope to draw out answers to the following
questions:
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What
components went into the partnership and what was the outcome?
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What
were the lessons learned?
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How can
these partnership models be replicated / scaled up?
3:45pm –
4:45pm
Break-Out Groups Session 1:
Group Leaders: Kerstin
Leitner, UNDP China & Nathalie Hahn, Consultant
1.
Information Technology for Development:
Cisco Systems & UNDP
in LDCs
2. Partnerships in
Crisis Zones:
Business Humanitarian
Forum &
UNDP Afghanistan
4:45pm – 5: 45pm Break-Out Groups Session 2:
Group Leaders: Rustam
Lalkaka, Business & Technology Development Strategies & Thierry Lemaresquier
UNDP Chile
(tbc)
1.
Local Development Planning:
PKN Orlen
& UNDP Poland
2.
Financing for Development:
Carrefour & UNDP
Malaysia
Statoil & UNHCR
6:00pm
Cocktails – Millennium UN Plaza Hotel, One United
Nations Plaza, 29th fl
(44th St. at
First Ave, 212-758-1234)
June 13 ALL
PARTICIPANTS___________ ________
9:15am – 10:45am
Plenary Session and Discussion
Moderator:
Debbie
O’Brien, Business for Social Responsibility
Strengthening
Enterprises in the Supply Chain through Partnership
This session will
explore global initiatives and local partnerships that have been used to help
overcome challenges to implementation.
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Why are
partnerships appropriate in this area?
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What roles can societal actors play in order to
overcome the challenges to implementation?
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How can
Governments provide an enabling framework?
Tensie Whelan, Executive
Director, Rainforest Alliance
Mark Beckmann,
Neumann
Transparency, Why and How: Practical Issues in Public Disclosure
David
Rowe, Counsel and Director, Workers Rights
Information Project,
Lawyer’s Committee for Human Rights
Eco-efficiency production management for small suppliers: A UNIDO/BASF Global
Compact Project
Andreas Blüthner,
International Law Advisor, BASF AG
Kai Bethke,
Technical
Advisor on Private Sector Development,
UNIDO
Building small businesses in Angola: A UNDP/ChevronTexaco
Partnership
Luddy Hayden,
Federal Relations Representative, ChevronTexaco
Casper Sonesson, Policy
Advisor, UNDP
Government Representative – SEBRAE, Brazil (tbc)
10:45am – 12:30pm
Break-Out Group Discussions - Coffee Break
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Are there useful partnership models that can be
replicated or scaled up?
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What are
the lessons learned and what factors contribute to success?
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Ideas
for new partnerships in support of small business development.
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What is
the role for government?
1.
Multistakeholder Global Initiatives
2.
Project Partnerships for Enterprise Development
3.
Developing and Implementing a Company Supply Chain Management Policy
12:30pm – 1:00pm
Plenary Session – (Summary and Linkages)
How can
multinationals support local businesses along their supply chain and what are
the benefits? Is there an effective ‘model’ for partnerships? A synopsis of the
lessons learned and potential next steps.
Georg Kell,
Executive Head, Global Compact
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