Global Public Policy Institute (GPPi)

GPPi is an independent, non-profit think tank based in Berlin and Geneva. We focus on policy research in order to advance the debate on global governance. We also offer consulting services for public and private institutions. In addition, we provide a platform for debate with partners from all sectors. Our team is supported by an international advisory board.

We recently launched a second report related to our assistance to the UN Global Compact Office ( www.unglobalcompact.org) as they prepared a mandatory review on partnerships between UN agencies and the private sector, delivered to the UN General Assembly in September 2005. The report titled "Business UNusual. Facilitating United Nations Reform Through Partnerships" is a joint GPPi-Global Compact review of the UN experience with partnerships. It was published in September 2005 and presented at the UN World Summit.

Deutsche Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit (GTZ)

The work of the GTZ deals with international cooperation for sustainable development. Operating worldwide, we provide viable, forward-looking solutions for political, economic, ecological and social development in a globalized world. We support complex reforms and change processes. All our activities are geared to improving people’s living conditions and prospects on a sustainable basis.

In our programme on public-private partnerships (PPP) – also known as development partnerships with the private sector – GTZ cooperates with businesses and business associations in developing and transition countries. The PPP programme combines the respective strengths of public and private partners: PPP projects are planned, financed and implemented jointly. Private companies in PPPs profit from GTZ's contacts, experience and its global network of experts. At the same time, private sector involvement helps achieve development policy goals by creating jobs, introducing technological innovations in developing and transition countries, and improving production processes. By investing in people and the environment, businesses also ensure their own commercial success. Since the PPP programme began, GTZ has formed more than 300 partnerships with private firms and associations in more than 60 countries. More than 140 million Euros have been invested in these projects, with the public share averaging around 40 percent. For additional information on the GTZ's partnerships, click here.

Hertie School of Governance

The contemporary state is undergoing profound changes: new forms of regulation and governance are emerging, and a variety of actors contribute to this process. At the same time, the economy, society and politics are internationalizing at an unprecedented pace. New networks, forms of cooperation and partnerships are developing at different political levels between the three sectors state, business and civil society. Traditional forms of (hierarchical) “government” are losing significance; new forms of (horizontal) political regulation are emerging: “Governance” – with and without government.

In this context, tomorrow's leaders need to be equipped with new kinds of competence. The Hertie School of Governance (HSoG) responds to this need through its education and training programs. They will prepare both current and future leaders to deal with the new challenges of governance at the intersections between the three sectors and beyond traditional forms of statehood. For this purpose, the HSoG offers a curriculum focusing on questions of governance in a modern society that is based on the core disciplines of political science, law, sociology and economics. At the same time, the School acts as a center for scientific research on modern political governance. With the insights derived from its research, the Hertie School of Governance will contribute to national and international political discourse, and will thus serve as a forum for scholars and practitioners from all three sectors.

UN Global Compact

In an address to the World Economic Forum on 31 January 1999, United Nation Secretary-General Kofi Annan challenged business leaders to join an international initiative – the Global Compact – that would bring companies together with UN agencies, labour and civil society to support universal environmental and social principles. The Global Compact’s operational phase was launched at UN Headquarters in New York on 26 July 2000. Today, many hundreds of companies from all regions of the world, international labour and civil society organizations are engaged in the Global Compact, working to advance ten universal principles in the areas of human rights, labour, the environment and anti-corruption. The Global Compact is a direct initiative of the Secretary-General.

Through the power of collective action, the Global Compact seeks to promote responsible corporate citizenship so that business can be part of the solution to the challenges of globalisation. In this way, the private sector – in partnership with other social actors – can help realize the Secretary-General’s vision: a more sustainable and inclusive global economy.

BMZ

The Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) is responsible for the development policy of the Federal Republic of Germany. The aim of German development policy is to reduce poverty worldwide, to build peace and to promote equitable forms of globalization. German development policy takes its cue here from the shared goals of the international community: the Millennium Declaration with its eight Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), the Monterrey Consensus and the Johannesburg Plan of Implementation determine the direction.

In 1999, the BMZ launched its Public Private Partnership (PPP) programme. With its PPP strategy, the BMZ intends to strengthen the concerted action of official development cooperation and private business activity. Its main goals are the mobilization of additional contributions from the private sector, the utilization of private management know-how with a view to more efficient service delivery, and the promotion of private-sector investment as a growth engine for our partner countries' development process. Development partnerships with the private sector are thus not only in the interest of the enterprises concerned, they also generate added value from a development point of view.

A number of instruments contribute to the continuous expansion of partnerships between the implementing agencies of German development cooperation (GTZ, KfW, DEG, SEQUA, InWEnt, DED), government entities in partner countries, and private enterprises. Since 1999, the BMZ has supported more than 1,600 partnerships in more than 70 developing and transition countries and in almost every sector of development cooperation. The financial volume of these partnerships summed up to 8.2 billion EURO with a private share of approx. 5.5 billion EURO. For additional information on the BMZ's partnerships, click here.