Private Sector and Trade

 This year's edition of the European Development Days (26-27 November 2013) is approaching. Under the broader theme Towards a New Partnership for Development, the below panel discussions, project presentations and workshops on  trade & private sector development should be part of the programme.EUACC’s CSR Awards - Promoting Corporate Social Responsibility in Africa’s Development Improve Livelihoods by Sustainable Trade. Trade is Global not National Unlocking Potential Connectivity for All. TV White Spaces Technology: On-going Project and Impact Data for Development. Using ICTs to Shape the Post-2015 Framework Pioneering PPPs - PPP as a Model to Contribute to the Achievement of the Agenda for Change Private Sector and Development. Transition Process – A Model for Private Sector Engagement in Development Cooperation? Strengthening the Role of the Private Sector in Achieving Inclusive and Sustainable Growth. Stakeholder Consultations on Future EU Approach to Private Sector Development and Engagement of the Private Sector for Development Policy Coherence for Development Trade: Old Wine, New Bottle? Leveraging Private Sector and Trade for Inclusive and Sustainable GrowthAdditionally, under the theme theme Ensuring Inclusive and Sustainable Growth , the below relevant activities should be part of the programme:
Green Economy and Trade - Inclusive and Sustainable Means of Implementation for the Post-2015 Development AgendaMoving Towards Green Industry - Mobilizing the Private Sector for Environmental Sustainability
If you have any suggestions or questions related to the activities proposed, please do not hesitate to get in touch with the focal points whose contact details are provided below. You are equally welcome to post on this group's blog to launch discussions or share your thoughts on these topics, and to share your knowledge on similar projects with the help of the projects functionality. Don't forget to tag your content with the EDD2013 thematic category.For the final programme and practical details, please consult the EDD2013 website closer to the date.EUACC’s CSR Awards - Promoting Corporate Social Responsibility in Africa’s Development Project Presentation It is not just the volume of economic activity that determines development. It is also how business is done, which impacts people, the economy and the environment. Organised by EU-AFRICA Chamber of Commerce – EUACC (serguei.ouattara@eu-africa-cc.org) Improve Livelihoods by Sustainable Trade. Trade is Global not National Roundtable Raw materials traded internationally are pivotal to many of the world’s critical sustainability challenges. Over 70% of the world’s poor and undernourished live in developing economies. Hence, trade and private sector investments in agriculture in developing regions have a unique potential to create global public goods. For companies supply security of supply and the license to operate have become serious challenges. NGOs and governments strive for poverty reduction and safeguarding the global environment. By leveraging and accelerating the investments of European private sector companies, EU member countries contribute to the public good through trade by upgrading and integrating large groups of smallholder farmers and local MSMEs into commercial supply chains. Building on the drive of these parties to upgrade supply origins in line with demand opportunities in regional and international markets, public leverage funding contributes in strengthen cooperation and impact on the ground. Organised by The Sustainable Trade Initiative ( Eikelenboom@idhsustainabletrade.com )
Unlocking Potential Connectivity for All. TV White Spaces Technology: On-going Project and Impact Project Presentation Dynamic Spectrum Access (DSA) is an umbrella term used to describe a set of technologies and techniques enabling radio
communications devices to opportunistically transmit on available radio spectrum. These technologies and techniques ensure that consumers and their devices have wireless bandwidth when and where they need it. TV White Space spectrum refers to frequencies in the TV broadcast bands that are either unassigned or unused. TV broadcasts occupy designated channels, with the assignment of channels to broadcasts varying by location. Not all the designated channels are in use for broadcast in any given market, giving rise to “White Spaces” in which a channel that is not used may be available. Microsoft and other industry leaders believe that the first globally harmonized opportunity to use DSA technologies and techniques will be in the TV bands. This technology can bring Internet where a TV signal is available. On-going work and demo will be shared in this Lab session. Organised by Microsoft Corporation ( ludodeb@microsoft.com, rafaelpc@microsoft.com ) Data for Development. Using ICTs to Shape the Post-2015 Framework Project Presentation The aim is to show how ICT can in practice help to contribute to the post-MDG goals. ICT does not only make basic services – e.g. in the fields of health, education, banking – accessible to a wide range of people, even in remote rural areas – they can also help to understand social changes and to feed policy-makers and the development community with novel sets of data and insights. Orange “Data for Development” is an innovative open data project, encouraging research teams around the world to use four datasets of anonymous call patterns of Orange's Ivory Coast subsidiary, to help address society development questions in novel ways. The data sets are based on Call Detail Records extracted from Orange’s customer base between December 2011 and April 2012. The submitted research projects focused on predicting epidemics; measuring early-warning signs for droughts and their impact; optimising various infrastructure use; and designing new services that meet the populations' needs. Organised by Orange ( grzegorz.pieta@orange.com )
Pioneering PPPs - PPP as a Model to Contribute to the Achievement of the Agenda for Change Roundtable The closure of the Millennium Development Goals framework is intensifying debates on collective performance for reaching the stated goals and on drawing the lessons from the MDG implementation to shape the post-2015. All major development policy statements have emphasised the need to broaden partnerships with the private sector, to make better use of innovation and to look at the interrelated economic, social and environmental dimensions of the challenges. The Busan Partnership for Effective Development, the European Commission’s ‘Agenda for Change’, the Rio+20 declaration, the G-8 declaration on Food and Nutrition Security, and the report of the United Nations High Level Panel on the post-2015 framework all emphasise the need for a holistic and sustainable approach to agriculture, food and nutrition security and for stronger involvement of the private sector. COLEACP wishes to share its 12 years experience, as private sector association supported by EDF fund, in partnership building working with African, Caribbean and Pacific private agriculture value chains. Organised by African, Caribbean and Pacific Group of States, COLEACP, VOX Africa  ( guy.stinglhamber@coleacp.org, emmanuel.bourcelet@coleacp.org ) Private Sector and Development Transition Process – A Model for Private Sector Engagement in Development Cooperation? Roundtable The post-2015 development agenda is increasingly taking shape. Rio+20 made clear that sustainable development covers three
m ain dimensions, namely economic, social and environmental, and that both in policy and practice, governance is the glue that binds together these different strands. The recent commission communication ‘A Decent Life for All’ emphasises the mobilization of domestic resources, as well as the vital role of structural transformation led by the partner countries them selves, to ensure sustainable and inclusive economic growth. The global development agenda is moving beyond a strictly aid-based approach and is in need of a more diversified approach to structural transformation. This policy lab will focus on the importance of private sector engagement in development cooperation in the post-2015 development agenda. Organised by Ministry of Foreign Affairs – Lithuania (evaldas.galvanauskas@urm.lt, justinas.bakunas@urm.lt, vytautas.ciuzas@eu.mfa.lt, aiste.bertulyte-zikeviciene@eu.mfa.lt, eduardas.petrulis@eu.mfa.lt) Strengthening the Role of the Private Sector in Achieving Inclusive and Sustainable Growth. Stakeholder Consultations on Future EU Approach to Private Sector Development and Engagement of the Private Sector for Development Brainstorming In the ‘Agenda for Change’, the EU recognises that economic growth needs an enabling business environment and a competitive local private sector that is equipped to harness the opportunities offered by globally integrated markets. It also states that the EU should develop new ways of engaging with the private sector to leverage private sector activity and resources for achieving development goals. Amidst preparations for a post-2015 global agenda, and at the start of the EU’s multiannual financial framework for 2014 – 2020, it is considered timely for the EU to formulate in more operational terms its strategy for implementing the directions given in the ‘Agenda for Change’ on working for and with the private sector in development cooperation, and for meeting related commitments made by the EU in the Busan outcome document on aid effectiveness. Organised by European Commission, Directorate-General for Development Cooperation – EuropeAid ( matthias.altmann@ec.europa.eu ) Policy Coherence for Development Report Presentation Policy Coherence for development is the EU commitment, inscribed in Article 208 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union, which affirms that ‛The Union shall take account of the objectives of development cooperation in the policies that it implements which are likely to affect developing countries.’ This legal stance is underpinned by a political commitment, in the European Consensus for Development. The EU as an important global actor recognizes that some of its policies can have a significant impact outside of the EU and that either contributes to or undermines its development policy. By applying the PCD principles, the EU seeks to minimise contradictions and to build synergies between policies other than development cooperation that have an impact on developing countries, for the benefit of overseas development. Following a mandate from the Council in 2005, the European Commission reports every 2 years on progress made on policy coherence for development by the EU. The EU 2013 PCD report is the fourth biennial report on PCD progress prepared by the Commission. It aims to report on: Progress made by the EU and its Member States in making their policies more coherent with development cooperation objectives, focusing on those sectors identified as priority challenges for the PCD exercise (trade and finance, climate change, food security, migration and security);The recent activities to ensure better monitoring and implementation of the PCD process The main lessons learned and challenges ahead.Organised by European Commission, Directorate-General for Development Cooperation – EuropeAid ( zdenka.dobiasova@ec.europa.eu ) Trade: Old Wine, New Bottle? Leveraging Private Sector and Trade for Inclusive and Sustainable Growth Panel To lift the ‘bottom billion’ requires developing countries to effectively participate in international markets and moving up global value chains. Trade Capacity Building, trade-related reforms and a good business environment, incl. Trade Facilitation (TF) could leverage the private sector’s contribution to development. Organised by COLEACP, International Finance Corporation – IFC, Practitioners’ Network for European Development Cooperation, United Nations Industrial Development Organization – UNIDO (katja.legien@dev-practicioners.eu, emmanuel.bourcelet@coleacp.org, f.iwinjak@unido.org, lnelliferoci@ifc.org )Green Economy and Trade - Inclusive and Sustainable Means of Implementation for the Post-2015 Development Agenda

Roundtable

An inclusive and sustainable approach to trade is urgently needed. This roundtable discussion focuses on UNEP’s ‘Green Economy and Trade’ report: a response to Rio+20 where countries recognised green economy in the context of sustainable development and poverty eradication as an important tool for achieving sustainable development.

The Rio+20 outcome document called for the post-2015 and associated Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to encourage a continuation of economic growth & progress towards eradicating poverty in developing countries whilst also safeguarding the natural environment. This session will gather people’s views on trade, as well as the ‘means of implementation’ that many feel were missing from the Millennium Development Goals and which will be an important component to realise the SDGs and associated targets/indicators.

The session draws on the Open Working Group’s proposals to the United Nations General Assembly on Sustainable Development Goals (09/13) and on the report of the High Level Panel on the Post-2015 Development Agenda (05/13).

Organised by Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit – GIZ, United Nations Environment Programme – UNEP ( james.morris@unep.org, sandrine.marques@unep.org )

Moving Towards Green Industry - Mobilizing the Private Sector for Environmental Sustainability

Roundtable

This year, the Earth will reach the critical 400ppm CO2 level, which is very close to the 450ppm critical threshold, equivalent to a 2-degree rise in global temperature, beyond which the consequences of climate change are uncertain. In parallel, global material extraction has grown by almost 80% in the past 30 years and is around 70 billion tonnes today. Societies in industrialized countries would need to dematerialize by a factor of 10 to meet the demands of the Earth's future population.

The private sector drives economic development by being producer, investor, innovator, technology and service provider. It forms the basis for growth and prosperity while at the same time creating external effects that put our planet's health at risk.

This event will serve to analyse and critically discuss the pivotal role, which the private sector can and must play in the context of attaining an environmentally sustainable model of industrial production and realizing the post-2015 development agenda.

Organised by United Nations Environment Programme – UNEP, United Nations Global Compact – UNGC, United Nations Industrial Development Organization – UNIDO ( h.leuenberger@unido.org, h.mehdi@unido.org, f.iwinjak@unido.org )