Tools and Resources

Enhancing Partnership Value: The Partnership Assessment Tool (PAT)

A tool for companies and the UN to assess and improve the impact and sustainability of partnerships for development, jointly developed by the Global Compact, UNDP, UNITAR and the UN Office for Partnerships.

>> For more information click here.

Joining Forces for Change - Innovation and Impact in UN-Business Partnerships

Joining Forces for Change profiles how 18 companies have partnered with different United Nations agencies to help address significant global issues. The guide illustrates how different types of UN-Business partnerships can contribute to development objectives, and show the win-win potential of collaboration (GCO 2007).

>> Please click here to download the publication.

Business Guide to Partnering with NGOs and the United Nations

This guide aims to identify 100 leading non-profit actors from around the world that have demonstrated skill and excellence in partnering with companies to better equip companie to survey the NGO and UN landscape to match their needs and competences with those of potential partners (GCO 2007).

>> Contact globalcompact@un.org for a copy of the guide.

Partnering for Development - Making it Happen

A booklet produced by UNDP, exploring the concept of partnering particularly focusing on why different actors should engage in partnerships. The booklet briefly introduces the topic, describes the global context and the reason for why the public and the private sectors should engage in partnerships (UNDP 2006).

>> Please click here to download the publication.

Business UNusual: Facilitating United Nations Reform Through Partnerships

Partnerships have an increasingly important role to play as a complementary approach to the conventional instruments of international cooperation and development. “ Business UNusual” explores how partnerships with business act as a catalyst for reform and innovation throughout the UN organization (GCO 2005).

>> Click here to download Part 1 and Part 2 of the publication.

Unleashing Entrepreneurship: Making Business Work for the Poor

A report by the Commission on the Private Sector and Development, "Unleashing Entrepreneurship" explores the role of the private sector in alleviating poverty, and how the potential of the private sector can be unleashed in developing countries (UNDP 2004).

>> Please click here to download the publication.

Business and the Millennium Development Goals: A Framework for Action

A guide for companies and business coalitions can work with the UN system, governments and civil society organizations to help achieve the MDGs - aimed at making globalization a more positive force for more of the world's people (IBLF 2003).

>> Please click here to download the publication.

ADDITIONAL RESOURCES

- Fighting Poverty: A Business Opportunity , Report of the 10th International Business Forum InWent, WBI, Instituto Ethos, UN Global Compact Office (2005)
- The Partnering Toolbook , The International Business Leaders Forum (IBLF) and the Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN) (2003)
- "Global Collaborative Governance: Enhancing Development Outcomes by Improving Partnership Governance and Accountability" Simon Zadek and Sasha Radovich, Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Governance (2006)

The third issue of the Compact Quarterly from July 2005 is devoted to the role of business in the development of economies and societies.To view the Compact Quarterly click here .

For more information contact

Cecilie Hultmann
hultmann@un.org

(Last update 15 November 2007)

Enhancing Partnership Value: The Partnership Assessment Tool (PAT)
	A tool for companies and the UN to assess and improve the impact and sustainability of partnerships for development, jointly developed by the Global Compact, UNDP, UNITAR and the UN Office for Partnerships.
	>> For more information click here.

Joining Forces for Change - Innovation and Impact in UN-Business Partnerships
	Joining Forces for Change profiles how 18 companies have partnered with different United Nations agencies to help address significant global issues. The guide illustrates how different types of UN-Business partnerships can contribute to development objectives, and show the win-win potential of collaboration (GCO 2007).
	>> Please click here to download the publication.

Business Guide to Partnering with NGOs and the United Nations
	This guide aims to identify 100 leading non-profit actors from around the world that have demonstrated skill and excellence in partnering with companies to better equip companie to survey the NGO and UN landscape to match their needs and competences with those of potential partners (GCO 2007).
	>> Contact globalcompact@un.org for a copy of the guide.

Partnering for Development - Making it Happen
	A booklet produced by UNDP, exploring the concept of partnering particularly focusing on why different actors should engage in partnerships. The booklet briefly introduces the topic, describes the global context and the reason for why the public and the private sectors should engage in partnerships (UNDP 2006).
	>> Please click here to download the publication.

Business UNusual: Facilitating United Nations Reform Through Partnerships
	Partnerships have an increasingly important role to play as a complementary approach to the conventional instruments of international cooperation and development. “ Business UNusual” explores how partnerships with business act as a catalyst for reform and innovation throughout the UN organization (GCO 2005).
	>> Click here to download Part 1 and Part 2 of the publication.

Unleashing Entrepreneurship: Making Business Work for the Poor
	A report by the Commission on the Private Sector and Development, "Unleashing Entrepreneurship" explores the role of the private sector in alleviating poverty, and how the potential of the private sector can be unleashed in developing countries (UNDP 2004).
	>> Please click here to download the publication.

Business and the Millennium Development Goals: A Framework for Action
	A guide for companies and business coalitions can work with the UN system, governments and civil society organizations to help achieve the MDGs - aimed at making globalization a more positive force for more of the world's people (IBLF 2003).
	>> Please click here to download the publication.