Drivers or spoilers – What can we expect from the Private Sector?
Event on 2014-02-03 09:00:00
After 2015 – The road towards the next global development agenda:
Drivers or spoilers
– What can we expect from the Private Sector?
In order to eradicate extreme poverty and ensure lasting and sustainable human development, actors from all sectors need to cooperate and contribute. To fulfill the Post-2015 vision, new partnerships – especially with the private sector – have been called for by both the High Level Panel and the UN Secretary General. It has however not been clearly formulated how these new partners should play in.
The High-Level Panel report on the Post-2015 development agenda emphasizes that large corporations must account for their social and environmental impact by reporting on their progress or explain why they don’t – a so called “comply or explain” regime. The question is whether this will be enough or if binding agreements are needed to make change happen? Another crucial question is if the private sector is ready for the transparency and scrutiny this will imply?
This seminar intends to address these issues
by discussing the following questions:
- What are the incentives for the private sector to engage in the Post-2015 agenda?
- Is it possible to combine the demand for growing revenues with sustainability?
- Is it time to go from CSR, “name & shame” and peer-pressure to a mandatory framework? If yes – what should it comprise of?
- Which role and what contributions could be expected from the private sector?
Participants:
Sasja Beslik, Head of Responsible Investments & Identity at Nordea Bank. He has more than ten years of experience in work on environmental and social aspects, having worked with both Swedish and international companies. Mr Beslik is one of Sweden’s most prominent CSR-experts and was recently given the award for ‘Sweden’s most influential and inspirational person under 40 and in 2011 Mr Beslik got the title Young Global Leader at World Economic Forum in Davos.Mr Beslik is also chairman of UNEP Finance Initiative’s Water Work Group. He is a former journalist with a degree in Economical History.
Ramon Certeza, Assistant General Secretary of the Trade Union Congress of the Philippines (TUCP), working mainly on trade and workers’ rights issues. Mr Certeza is the former Director for Education and Research of the Confederation of Labor and Allied Social Services (CLASS-TUCP) and Project Coordinator of the International Textile, Garment and Leather Workers Federation (ITGWLF) Philippine Office. He has also worked as campaign coordinator for Play Fair. Mr Certeza finished his Masters Degree in Labour Policies and Globalization from the University of Kassel and Berlin School of Economics in Germany in 2006.
Livestream from the seminar can be viewed here:
http://new.livestream.com/hammarskjold-foundation/drivers-or-spoilers
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The seminar starts at 09:00, coffee and sandwiches will be served at 08.30
(Please be there in time, as breakfast is not to be brought into the seminar room).
For further information, please contact Malin von Strauss, UNDP, 0702-30 82 53, malin.vonstrauss@undp.org or Erika Beckman, Dag Hammarskjold Foundation, 076-541 10 12, erika.beckman@dhf.uu.se
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This event forms part of the seminar series “After 2015 – The road towards the next global development agenda,” jointly organized by the Dag Hammarskjöld Foundation and UNDP Nordic Office, running throughout 2013 and 2014. The next seminar is to take place in late February 2014. More information to come!
For further information, please visit www.millenniemalen.nu or www.dhf.uu.se/after-2015.
at Konstakademiens hörsal
Fredsgatan 12
Stockholm, Sweden
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