| Programme
Overview
The conventional ways in which corporate investment contributes
to international and national development goals are through
products and services, taxes, wages and a opportunities to
local suppliers. Our research challenges this... more...
Extractive
Industries Sector
Company reporting of positive economic and development
impacts on the host society.
ODI works in collaboration with leadership companies in the
extractive industries. Innovative mechanisms, including market
drivers, are being explored to enhance the contribution of
these businesses to international and national development
goals, both through core business practices and through social
investment. more...
Engineering
Services Sector
Incentivising large engineering companies to release their
untapped competencies to contributing to development goals.
Large engineering contractors are currently an underused resource
for enhancing the economic multiplier effect of extractive
industry and infrastructure projects in emerging economies.
Economic enhancement strategies include: skills development,
employment, supplier and SME support and local infrastructure
development, with different emphases during construction and
operations maintenance. more...
Agricultural
Sector
With a renewed G8 and donor commitment to fund infrastructure
that promotes market-orientated agricultural development,
and with various recent donor experiments in public-private
partnerships and rural infrastructure financing coming to
fruition, there are some real opportunities for developing
countries to benefit economically from the forthcoming growth
in the agriculture markets. more...
Telecommunications
Sector
The United Nations-sponsored World Summit on the Information
Society (WSIS) took place in 2003 in Geneva, with ODI and
the Foundation for Development Cooperation (Australia) collaborating
in proposing a strategy for harnessing the pro-poor development
potential of the summit through a programme of multi-sector
ICT4D partnerships. more...
Public-Private
and Multi-Stakeholder Partnerships for Development
Partnerships for development - building skills and integrity
in the emerging profession of brokering multi-sectoral partnerships
for sustainable development.
The dynamic role of public-private partnerships (PPPs) and
public sector participation in private investment low-income
countries, with regards to meeting the MDGs. Developing training
and partnership tracking tools to add value to the relationships.
more...
ODI/IBLF Partnership Brokers Accreditation Scheme
ODI and the International Business Leaders Forum have launched
what is believed to be the first ever professional Partnership
Brokers Accreditation Scheme (PBAS). Now into its fourth year,
PBAS has attracted partnership brokers from around the world
across a variety of sectors and is now being rolled out in
every world region. more...
Public
Sector Involvement in Private Sector Development
Incentivising large companies to align their business
with domestic government national development targets.
Guidance for companies and international finance institutions
to ensure that financial agreements enhance development impact.
Aplication of the ODI-designed draft CSR Diagnostic and Appraisal
tool for strengthening the role of the public sector in CSR.
The instrument is being piloted by the World Bank in a number
of developing countries. more...
Books
Publications
& Reports
Meeting
Series
Training
on the New 'Equator Principles' and IFC Performance Standards
for Social and Environmental Sustainability
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