GLOBAL COMPACT POLICY DIALOGUE:
Supply Chain Management and Partnerships
12/13 June 2003, UN Headquarters
Agenda
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,
Lawyers Committee for Human Rights
10:45am
-11:00am Coffee Break
11:00am –
6:00pm Participants Divided into
Parallel Sessions:
I – 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
What do the GC principles mean and how do
they translate into corporate practice throughout the supply chain?
Company
Experiences in Implementing the 9 Principles.
BMW Group's Sustainability Approach to Procurement
Procedures
Guido
Prick, Group Representative, 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 Manager,
Inditex
12:30pm – 2:00pm  Lunch
Break – UNHQ Cafeteria.
2:00pm – 3:00pm
Panel Discussion: Strengthening the Capacity of Suppliers
Moderator: Peter Brew, Director,
Operational Policy,
International Business Leaders Forum (IBLF)
Suppliers’ Perspective
- What skills/resources do suppliers need to meet social and
environmental standards? What is the business case?
MNC Perspective
- How best to incorporate empowerment,
capacity-building/ training rather than an exclusively top-down enforcement
strategy? What are the key challenges faced?
The Realities of Supplier Compliance
Rick Darling,
President, Li & Fung USA
Human Values in the Supply Chain
Sergio Feliciangeli,
Chief Executive Officer, ALFESA, Paraguay
Coordinating the Business Agenda on Supply Chain
Issues: How Business Leaders Can Face the Challenges and Work
Together
Peter
Whitford, Chief Executive Officer, Wet Seal
Inc., former President Worldwide, Disney Stores
A Brave New World in Transforming Workplaces - A View from the Inside
Out
Mil
Niepold, Director of Policy,
Verité
3:00pm –
5:00pm Break-Out Groups
Session: Challenges & Opportunities Along the Supply Chain
A focus on the key issues raised during the two plenary
sessions
5:00pm
–6:00pm Plenary
Session – Room 6
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 13 ALL
PARTICIPANTS_- ECOSOC Chamber
9:15am – 10:45am
Panel Discussion - Strengthening Enterprises in the Supply Chain through
Partnership
Moderator: Debbie O’Brien,
Business for Social Responsibility
This
session will explore global initiatives and local partnerships that have been
used to help overcome challenges to implementation.
- Why are partnerships appropriate in this area? Are there models that can be replicated or scaled up?
- Ideas for new partnerships in support of small business development.
- What roles can societal actors play in order to overcome the challenges to implementation?
- How can Governments provide an enabling framework?
Supply Chain
Partnerships and Sustainable Sourcing Policies in Coffee
Tensie Whelan, Executive
Director, Rainforest Alliance
Marc Beckmann, Director of Sustainable
Coffee, North America, Neumann Kaffee Gruppe
Transparency, Why and How: Practical Issues in Public
Disclosure
David
Roe, Counsel and Director, Workers Rights Information Project,
Lawyers Committee for Human Rights
Eco-efficiency
production management for small suppliers: A UNIDO/UNEP/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
Business Partnerships: The Challenges Facing Small Business in
Brazil in Supply Chain Management and the Role of SEBRAE
Vinicius Nobre Lages, Manager of the
Sectoral Development Unit, SEBRAE, Brazil
10:45am –
12:30pm Break-Out Groups
Session - Coffee Break
- Multistakeholder Global Initiatives Presentation bySantiago Porto, Ethical Trading Initiative
- Project Partnerships for Enterprise Development
- Developing and Implementing a Company Supply Chain Management Policy
12:30pm – 1:00pm
Plenary Session – (Summary and Linkages) – ECOSOC
CHAMBER
A synopsis of the lessons learned and
potential next steps.
Georg Kell,
Executive Head, Global Compact
