2009 Event Series Resources

• Press release
• DFID's Private Sector Development Strategy
• Speech by DFID Minister Mike Foster
• Blog by Mike Foster
• Blog by Barbara Stocking, Oxfam GB
• ODI opinion “The downturn: An opportunity for business?”
• Blog by Caroline Ashley, ODI

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• ODI Background Note Harnessing core business for development impact
• Blog by DFID Minister, Gareth Thomas
• Blog by Mike Barry, Marks & Spencer
• Blog by Graham Baxter, IBLF

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• Presentation by William Derban, Barclays Bank
• Presentation by Jonathan Mitchell, ODI
• Presentation by Alan Gibson, The Springfield Centre
• Blog by Alan Gibson
• Blog by Chris West, Shell Foundation
• Summary of the M4P concept (M4P Synthesis)
• M4P Perspectives (8 papers exploring its applications)
• M4P Operational Guide
• Information on Barclays approach to financial inclusion
• Overview of the enterprise development approach of the Shell Foundation
• Shell Foundaton report "Enterprise solutions to poverty"
• ODI’s new Briefing Paper on use of value chain analysis to scale up poverty impact in tourism

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Background Note on supply and distribution chains from the event organizers:

Supply and distribution chains of multinationals: harnessing their potential for development (ODI DFID BAA Background Note 2009). This highlights different approaches to reforming supply and distribution chains for development impact, along with key challenges. It also contains hotlinks to a wide variety of corporate initiatives and reports, beyond those listed here.

Examples from company panelists, and related material:

SABMiller

• Presentation by Andy Wales, SABMiller

• An overview about the supply chain approach of SABMiller including a position paper on supply chains, a report on enterprise development and their latest sustainable development report. See Andy Wales, Head of Sustainable Development, explaining how SABMiller is working with small-scale farmers in an interview with CNBC Africa.

Cadbury

• Presentation by David Croft, Cadbury

• An overview about the Cadbury Cocoa Partnership outlined on Cadbury’s website, a study commissioned by Cadbury and carried out by the Institute of Development Studies and the University of Ghana mapping out the opportunities for sustainable production in Ghanaian Cocoa and Cadbury’s 2007/08 online corporate responsibility and sustainability review ‘Dear Cadbury’.

Coca-Cola

• Presentation by Euan Wilmshurst, The Coca-Cola Company

• A press release published by the Coca-Cola Company on the occasion of the "Business Call to Action" launch, an article published by Business Daily about Coca-Cola’s Manual Distribution Centers (MDCs), and several case studies about the MDC’s impact on small business development in Africa published on their website.

Also on cocoa

• Towards a Sustainable Cocoa Chain, Oxfam (2009). A new report examining the power and possibilities within the cocoa and chocolate sector, identifying the stakeholders, purchasing power, trends in the supply chain and making recommendations for action.

Material including some practical ‘how to’ guidance on reforming supply chains:

• Developing SMEs through Business Linkages - The MozLink experience, published by the International Finance Corporation (2007). A step-by-step guide to building competitive SMEs that can be integrated into corporate supply chains, based on long-standing experience at the Mozal aluminium smelter in Mozambique, and now adopted by 5 large companies with support of IFC.
• Increasing local content in the procurement of infrastructure projects in low income countries, published by Engineers Against Poverty (2009). A briefing note detailing different options to promote local content in infrastructure projects at various stages of the procurement cycle. Equally practical is their 2008 brief for the extractive sector: Maximising the contribution of local enterprises to the supply chain of oil, gas, and mining projects in low income countries.
• ‘How To....?’ Brief on Boosting Procurement from Local Businesses and an updated case study, Bringing local entrepreneurs into the supply chain: a demonstration of what works from Spier Hotel, published by ODI and partners (2005 & 2009). Both summarise practical tips learned by tourism operators in South Africa on internal change management and business mentoring that enable small black-owned enterprises to enter the supply chain.

New reports that compare a wide range of business models, synthesise lessons and highlight directions for innovation:

• Emerging Markets, Emerging Models, Monitor Group (March 2009). A review of 8 different emerging business models for market-based solutions to poverty, 3 involving the poor as producers and 5 reaching the poor as consumers.
• Unchaining Value: Innovative approaches to sustainable supply published by SustainAbility, UNEP and UN Global Compact (2008). A review comparing supply chain initiatives of several companies, and outlining the challenge to shift from incrementalism, to transformational approaches that cascade sustainability opportunities through the supply chain:
• Greening the Supply Chain in Emerging Markets: Some Lessons from the Field from Greenbiz (November 2008). Analysing recent work from the World Environment Centre (WEC) to uncover best practices for making green supply chain initiatives succeed, and identifying the value such efforts can bring to a company.
• Ethical trade and labour standards in a downturn the annual report of Impactt addresses the question how corporations should tackle the challenges of it. The underlying principle is that ‘the task is getting harder, we need to get smarter’.
• Oxfam report, case studies and event, on business models that support smallholder farmers within supply chains, reviewing innovation in producer-driven, intermediary-driven and retailer-brand driven agricultural supply chains. Available in May.

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Framework for Measuring the Development Impact of Business

Presentation by Caroline Ashley, ODI

Background Note on Approaches to assessing business impacts on development: This paper has been prepared for the fifth meeting in the series on ‘Harnessing the Power of Business for Development Impact.’ The fifth meeting explores how we can better understand the impact of business on development, and particularly what companies themselves do in this area. So far, in discussions of business models and corporate innovation, a recurrent theme has been that we need to know which approaches really do contribute effectively to development, or create ‘social value’. But approaches to understanding this are diverse. The purpose of this paper, and of the meeting, is to explore contrasting approaches and to develop key questions for further discussion. A revised version, drawing on the meeting and on comments received, will be published as an ODI Working Paper. Please send comments to
k.ellis@odi.org.uk.

Corporate Examples

Anglo American

• Presentation by Edward Bickham, Anglo American
• Information about the Socio-Economic Assessment Toolbox which is in place at 60 AA sites in 16 countries can be found on their website.

Vodafone

• Presentation by Joaquim Croca, Vodafone
• Vodafone's assessment of the impact of mobile phones in India collating data from many users on how they use their new technology is covered in their public policy series report: ‘India: The Impact of Mobile Phones’, available here.

Unilever

• Presentation by Miguel Veiga-Pestana, Unilever
• The assessment of the impact of Unilever Indonesia, done jointly with Oxfam is summarised in: ‘Exploring the Links Between International Business and Poverty Reduction: A Case Study of Unilever in Indonesia’, available here. The assessment of Unilever’s economic footprint in South Africa: ‘Measuring Unilever’s Economic Footprint: The Case of South Africa’, available here.

Other

• SABMiller: Their recent Enterprise Development Report: ‘Making a difference through beer’, available here, summarises and contrasts results of supply chain initiatives in a number of countries. SABMiller’s contribution to South Africa’s economy is summarised in a report available on their website.
• Diageo: The assessment of Diageo’s Water of Life projects in over 30 countries, looking both at the number of beneficiaries reached, and longer lasting impact issues relating to sustainability and community ownership is summarised in theirreport: ‘Evaluation of the 2007 Water of Life Projects in Africa’, available here.

Donor Insights and Experiences

• CDC: Presentation by Marie Rosencrantz, CDC

Review of key issues and approaches

• An overview of different approaches to assessing business impact on development: ‘Approaches to assessing business impacts on development’, a framework paper produced for the fifth meeting in the series, available here.
• A summary of key issues for assessing private sector development: ‘The 2008 Reader on Private Sector Development: Measuring and Reporting Results’ published by the Donor Committee on Enterprise Development, available here.

New Tools

• World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD): Measuring Impact Framework Methodology
• ARUP and Engineers Against Poverty: ASPIRE framework, A sustainability Poverty and Infrastructure Routine for Evaluation
• Social Enterprise London: Social IMPact measurement for Local Economies (SIMPLE)
• New Economics Foundation: Social Return on Investment (SROI) approach to measurement and value that can be used across public, private and third sectors.
• ODI proposal for a "Good for Development" company badge

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Speaker Presentations

• Presentaton by Edward Bickham, Technical Advisory Committee, Investment Climate Facility
• Presentation by Sunil Sinha, Nathan EME Ltd
• Presentation by Baroness Lynda Chalker, Africa Matters

‘Getting the Investment climate right’

• The Investment Climate Facility for Africa (ICF) consists of private companies, development partners and governments working together to improve the investment climate in Africa. Find out more about their work in an introductory brochure here.
• The Commonwealth Business Council (CBC) through its Business Environment Survey intends to strengthen the investment climate by providing an information resource and proposed agenda for dialogue along with specific action points for consideration. Find the latest survey from 2007 here.
• The Doing Business Project of the World Bank looks at domestic small and medium-size companies and measures the regulations applying to them through their life cycle. It provides a quantitative measure of regulations for starting a business, dealing with construction permits, employing workers, registering property, getting credit, protecting investors, paying taxes, trading across borders, enforcing contracts and closing a business. Find an overview about the project here.

‘Risk Sharing: Stimulating the right investment through Challenge Funds’

Examples of ongoing and closed Challenge Funds supported by DfID:

• The Africa Enterprise Challenge Fund (AECF) based in and run from Africa primarily supports business ideas in the field of agriculture, agri-business, rural financial services and the value chain.
• The Food Retail Industry Challenge Fund (FRICH) aims to support the development of new business models that will increase the flow of African food products into the UK. In contrast to other funds it supports projects and not individual companies or organisations. Find a presentation of how the fund works here.
• The Business Linkage Challenge Fund (BLCF) supported commercially sustainable private sector partnerships in order to increase access to markets, transfer technology, improve competitiveness, or address the policy and regulatory environment for business (closed in 2005). Find an overview about the lessons learnt here.

‘Getting the relationship right’

• The IBLF’s The Partnering Initiative works to promote cross-sector partnerships for sustainable development. It runs the professional Partnership Brokers Accreditation Scheme a course designed to increase individual’s skills to manage partnerships successfully.
• The Partnering with Governments (PwG) programme, a partnership between IBLF, GTZ and businesses, aims to build the capacity of governments, business and civil society to partner more effectively and to mainstream cross-sector partnerships as an essential mechanism to achieve sustainable development. Find an overview about the partnership here.
  

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Speaker Presentations

• Presentaton by Diana Klein, Peace Building Issues Programme, International Alert
• Presentation by Lisa Curtis, Adviser, ManoCap

• International Alert has worked closely with business in conflict affected countries over the last decade. This has included the ‘Red Flags’ initiative which highlights the legal risks to businesses – see www.redflags.info/
  Special advice and guidelines are also available for the extractive industries at www.international-alert.org/peace_and_economy/peace_and_economy_projects.php . The IA website has numerous papers and publications regarding the role of the private sector in the peace process. Further publications regarding market and conflict analysis will be available during the event.
• Background and documents relating to the Kimberly Process can be found at www.kimberleyprocess.com/
• There is a range of other relevant material from a recent World Bank Institute / George Washington University eConference on “Peace Through Commerce”: www.peace.businessfightspoverty.org

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Speaker Presentations

• Karen Ellis, Business and Development Leader, ODI

Organisations, Initiatives and Research Programmes

• The CUTS Centre for Competition, Investment & Economic Regulation (C-CIER) aims to promote fair markets to enhance consumer welfare and economic development through research, networking, capacity building and affiliations.
• The International Competition Network (ICN) provides antitrust agencies from developed and developing countries with a focused network for addressing practical antitrust enforcement and policy issues of common concern.
• UNCTAD's programme on competition law and policy provides competition authorities from developing countries and economies in transition with a development-focused intergovernmental forum for addressing practical competition law and policy issues.
• The International Development Centre (IDC) has a programme area focusing on competition and development.
• 39 of the world’s largest oil, gas and mining companies have signed up to the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI), a global standard for companies to publish what they pay and for governments to disclose what they receive.
• The Medicines Transparency Alliance (MeTA) works to improve access and affordability of medicines in developing countries. The seven participating pilot countries signed the alliance core principles to increase accountability and transparency and to work with private and civil society partners.
• The Construction Sector Transparency (COST) initiative supported by the World Bank aims to increase transparency and accountability in publicly financed construction projects.

Recent publications

• Industrial development and competition policy is one of the main research programmes within the Business and Development Programme at ODI. Publications on this topic include for instance Making markets work: Can you compete with the elite? (January 2009) and Mobile phones for development and profit: a win-win scenario (April 2009)
• A new publication containing the results of a major ODI research project
  entitled 'Measuring the economic benefits of competition', is forthcoming.
• The State-Business Relations (SBR) cluster lies at the heart of IPPG research. A series of four papers highlights economic and political approaches toward studying state-business relations: The Economics and Politics of State-Business Relations in Africa (April 2008)

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• Simon Maxwell's reflections on the 2009 Event Series. Simon was the Chair for each event.
• Harvard University's Corporate Social Responsibility Initiaitve, Kennedy School of Government.

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