Institutional Learning and Change Initiative

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A wide range of core business capabilities are highly relevant to the Millennium Development Goals, a framework agreed to by the world's governments to make major inroads into eradicating poverty by 2015. A recent Forum study involving more than 200 practitioners of development partnerships concluded that progress could be accelerated if the international community were to integrate private sector capabilities into development assistance efforts on a more systematic basis. Many firms have already discovered that compelling opportunities exist to apply core competencies to public-private partnerships (PPPs) in ways that clearly benefit their business. This report builds on the previous work of the Forum's Global Corporate Citizenship, Global Governance, Financing for Development, Jordan Education and Global Health initiatives to examine in greater depth the private sector competencies that are particularly relevant in three development areas: hunger, malaria and basic education.

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http://www.weforum.org/pdf/Initiatives/Harnessing_private_sector.pdf