BSR Insight | Building Inclusive Business Models to Support the MDGs
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Elissa Goldenberg, Associate, Advisory Services
Publication Date
October 5, 2010
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During the recent Millennium Development Goals summit in New York, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) released a new report highlighting the roles of business and other key actors—including policymakers, researchers, and advocates—in developing business models that include the poor in value chains as producers, employees, and consumers.
The report also recognizes achievements to date and best practices in 40 case studies and descriptions of 140 supporting institutions. For example, IKEA—in an effort to achieve universal primary education—established a code of conduct that requires all suppliers to recognize the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child and also developed a sturdy SUNNAN lamp that could withstand difficult living conditions to give children without electricity the ability to read and write after sunset.
The report also outlines and provides examples of how the UNDP can support business by acting as a policy advisor, researcher, advocate, funder, technical advisor, and capacity developer.
About the Author(s)
Elissa Goldenberg, Associate, Advisory Services
With four years of sustainability communications expertise, Elissa works with BSR member companies in a range of sectors—including those in information and communications technology; food, beverage, and agriculture; energy; and consumer products—on various sustainability issues including reporting, stakeholder engagement, and human rights... Read more →
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