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ILO website:

Business and Social Initiatives Database (International Labour Organization)

Other websites:

Aventis: Partnerships for Health -...Aventis teamed up with WHO and other groups to ensure that the products needed to tackle such epidemics reach those in need. Partnerships include the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization (GAVI), the Global Polio Eradication Initiative, and the recently formed partnership to tackle African Sleeping Sickness. (World Business Council for Sustainable Development)

Bangchak Petroleum (Thailand) - Cooperatives as Owners (Makati Business Club, Philippines Business, Sep. 1998)

BP Solar: Municipal Solar Project - Phillipines - BP Solar has been supplying equipment and systems to rural development projects for over 15 years as part of the company’s commercial business. (World Business Council for Sustainable Development)

British Airways - Change for Good [fundraising for UNICEF] (British Airways)

Case studies: This new on-line case study collection showcases some of the best business actions for sustainable development from all over the globe. These case studies illustrate how companies work independently or with various stakeholders to integrate the challenge of sustainable development into their business activity. (World Business Council for Sustainable Development)

Center for Corporate Citizenship at Boston College

Changemakers.net: The Site for Social Entrepreneurship Worldwide (Ashoka)

The China Energy Technology Program: "A partnership for assessing a complete energy system" - The China Energy Technology Program, devised by ABB and the Alliance for Global Sustainability, is an extensive partnership program that brings together a diversity of participants to assess the relative costs and environmental performance of different strategies for meeting power demands in China. (World Business Council for Sustainable Development)

Choose Positive Energy campaign [joint campaign by Greenpeace & The Body Shop]: Greenpeace and The Body Shop have joined forces to challenge world governments to provide access to renewable energy for all - in particular the two billion people who live without any power, within ten years (Greenpeace and The Body Shop)

Companhia Vale do Rio Doce: “Education on Rails” [Brazil] -...By transforming the railway stations and passenger cars into “live” education environments, a variety of programs are being offered to the public. (World Business Council for Sustainable Development)

CSRwire.com: The Corporate Social Responsibility Newswire

The Digital Partnership:...The first pilot programme is currently being set up in South Africa with the support of national and international business including leading global IT companies, content partners, Government and public authorities in South Africa, foundations and grant support from the World Bank. (Prince of Wales International Business Leaders Forum)

DuPont Cyrel Partners with Handicapped Workshops - The DuPont iTechnologies site in Parlin, New Jersey, recently launched a product recovery program that provides local jobs for disabled individuals and also helps the environment. (World Business Council for Sustainable Development)

European Partners for the Environment: Engineering Multi-stakeholder Partnerships for Sustainability - Towards a fully inclusive and equitable Globalisation

The Global Alliance for Leprosy Elimination (Novartis, World Health Organization)

The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis & Malaria: Private Sector -...The creation of such a public-private partnership requires the full involvement of the private sector, both as a strategic partner in building strong alliances to fight these diseases, and as a source of expertise and experience. The Global Fund encourages the private sector to take a fully active role in fighting AIDS, TB and malaria

The IBLF [Prince of Wales International Business Leaders Forum] in Zambia [refers to collaboration with private sector, including BP Zambia, Phonix Contractors, Zambia National Business Society, Investrust Merchant Bank Zambia, Zambia Association of Chambers of Commerce and Industry, Zamcell] (Prince of Wales International Business Leaders Forum)

Johannesburg Climate Legacy 2002: Take part in the World Summit and help neutralise its CO2 emissions -...We are measuring the carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions of the Summit [World Summit on Sustainable Development, Johannesburg] (from delegates' flights to electricity used at the event). These emissions will be 'offset' through investments in carbon-reducing sustainable projects across South Africa. Companies, individuals, and governments can sponsor this 'offset' by making donations to a dedicated Trust Fund (Johannesburg Climate Legacy 2002)

Learning [U.N. Global Compact]: Case Studies -...Case studies will be drawn from the pool of examples that are submitted to the Global Compact Office. The most promising examples will be identified by an academic steering committee and selectively enlarged to provide further detail and depth. (U.N. Global Compact)

Learning [U.N. Global Compact]: Examples by Company Name - Beginning in January 2002, all companies participating in the Global Compact are required to make an annual submission to the Global Learning Forum focused on the factual elements of company actions in support of the nine principles. These submissions will be known as "examples" and will respond to the following two questions, "What have you done?" and "What was the result?" (U.N. Global Compact)

NetAid

Novartis' Concept of Development (Novartis Foundation for Sustainable Development)

Partnership Brokers Forum: Building Partnerships for Sustainable Development

Patagonia, Inc.:

Pilot project: Southern Africa Business and Gender Initiative [companies participating: ABSA, SAB-Beer Divisions, Vodacom, Toyota, Old Mutual] (Resource Centre for the Social Dimensions of Business Practice)

profile: Ion Exchange India (LTD), Manav Kalyan Trust Partnership and Oxfam India: Overall objective of the partnership Provide Gujarat province's rural population with safer drinking water, improved health and sanitation and better watershed management (Partnership Brokers Forum: Building Partnerships for Sustainable Development)

profile: Management of water services in suburbs of Durban and Pietermaritzburg, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa:...Vivendi Water, an international water company, took the first steps towards developing a tri-sector approach to finding an affordable solution for providing water and sanitation services to the growing urban poor in these two municipalities (Partnership Brokers Forum: Building Partnerships for Sustainable Development)

Rio Tinto: conservation partnership with Earthwatch (World Business Council for Sustainable Development)

Southern Business Challenge: a new international network bringing together progressive companies and entrepreneurs from developing countries to promote an action agenda for sustainability and social justice (Centre for Social Markets)

Tata Steel: Social Commitment (Tata Steel, Jamshedpur, India)

Thai Business Council: Green Label Scheme -...The TBCSD [Thailand Business Council for Sustainable Development] initiated a Green Label Scheme soon after it was established. This provides an environmental certification for products that are shown to have minimum detrimental impact on the environment, compared to other products serving the same functions. (World Business Council for Sustainable Development)

Thai Business Initiative in Rural Development (TBIRD), examples of succesful projects:

Unilever: Cleaning up the Brantas River [Indonesia] - The Brantas River project and Unilever Indonesia’s Village Adoption Program are engaging local communities in cleaning up polluted waterways where they reside, allowing them a healthier environment in which to live and new income generating possibilities. This partnership program, involving local government organizations and NGOs, has led to a new model for rehabilitating rivers that the company is seeking to replicate with other businesses and river communities throughout Indonesia. (World Business Council for Sustainable Development)

Virtual Exhibition: Showcasing sustainable development initiatives around the world

Volkswagen: street children project -...The project, begun in September 1999 in partnership with the children's rights organization terre des homes, aims to supply continuous, long-term financial support for street children projects that are run by local institutions and initiatives near Volkswagen sites around the world (Mexico, Brazil, South Africa and Germany). (World Business Council for Sustainable Development)

Western Power: the Greening Challenge [Australia] -...The partnership is an effort by Western Power, Landcare (a non-profit agency addressing land care issues) and state government officials to help stop soil degradation issues. (World Business Council for Sustainable Development)

World Summit Business Awards for Sustainable Development Partnerships:...The Awards highlight concrete actions taken by business organizations in partnership with other stakeholders for sustainable development. (International Chamber of Commerce, in association with United Nations Environment Programme)