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Documents

These pages are reserved for public documents that relate to energy and poverty eradication. The documents are structured into four categories:

• Background
• Partnerships
• Poverty
• Policy

A JEPP Bulletin (pdf 502 kB) and a brochure is available.

Background documents

Theme 'Millennium Development Goals'

• Report on the thirteenth session (30 April 2004 and 11-22 April 2005)
• In Larger Freedom: Towards Security, Development and Human Rights for All
  Kofi Annan, March 2005
  Response by Dutch government
• Investing in Development: A Practical Plan to Achieve the Millennium Development Goals
  Jeffrey Sachs et al., January 2005
  Response by the Dutch government
• Millennium Development Goal 8: Developing a Global Partnership for Development
  Ministry of Foreign Affairs, May 2004
• The road to the UN Millennium Development Goals. Some insights into the international debate.
  Wendy Harcourt, April 2004
• Business and the Millennium Development Goals: A Framework for Action
  UNDP and the International Business Leaders Forum, 2003

The Role of Your Business in Development
Conference report, 2004
The conference on 'The Role of Your Business in Development' was held March 4th 2004 at the headquarters of the hostorganization, the VNO-NCW, in The Hague. It represented an initiative of the Ministry of Economic Affairs, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Confederation of Netherlands Industry and Employers (VNO-NCW and ICC Netherlands), and the National Committee for International Cooperation and Sustainable Development (NCDO).

Business in development survey; Needs, constraints and opportunities for Dutch entrepreneurs in developing countries
NCDO, SNV and FMO, 2004 (in Dutch)
In this paper, the Dutch aid organizations NCDO, SNV and FMO explore what kind of facilities Dutch business need for successful investments in developing countries. An overview is provided what motives, chances and limitations are indicated by the Dutch private sector, related to sustainable foreign investments

Public Private Partnerships and the Poor
Sohail, M., WECD Loughborough University, 2003
The purpose is to determine workable processes whereby the needs of the poor are promoted in strategies that encourage public-private partnerships (PPPs) in the provision of water supply and sanitation services. One of the key objectives is to fill some of the gaps that exist in evidence-based reporting of the facts and issues concerning the impact of PPP on poor consumers. This series of reports presents the findings and cases studies based on both the pre-contract and operational phases of a number of PPP contracts.

Building Partnerships for Sustainable Development, Lessons from the Netherlands
Benin, Bhutan and Costa Rica
KIT Bulletin 354, 2003
In 1994, the governments of Benin, Bhutan, Costa Rica and the Netherlands signed the Sustainable Development Agreement (SDA). At the WSSD (World Summit on Social Development) in Johannesburg, partnerships attracted a great deal of attention. Being relatively new, WSSD partnerships can benefit from ten years of experience from implementing the SDAs.

Partnerships documents

Civil Partnerships, Governance and the UN: The History of Partnerships Lies in the Future, Waiting to Be Invented, by US
Paper being prepared for the Secretary-General's Panel of Eminent Persons on Civil Society and UN Relationships. The paper considers the particular connection between the future role of civil society organizations in the UN and the phenomenon of 'partnerships'.

Strategic Partnership: Challenges and Best Practices in the Management and Governance of Multi-Stakeholder Partnerships Involving UN and Civil Society Actors
Paper reviewing challenges and recommends practices in the management and governance of multi-stakeholder partnerships. The paper has been prepared for the Multi-Stakeholder Workshop on Partnerships and UN-Civil Society Relationships, which was held in New York on 10-11-12 February 2004.

Partnerships for Sustainable Development
Implementation mechanisms for and facts and figures on WSSD partnerships in general and on Water, Sanitation and Human Settlement partnerships in particular. Description of the progress since initiation of the partnerships. Explanation of partnership-related activities by the Secretariat of the Commission on Sustainable Development.

Public Private Partnerships for poverty eradication
Paper providing a short analysis of factors that could play a role when putting public private partnerships in energy into operation. The paper was prepared for a stakeholder meeting on energy and poverty reduction (DGIS-stakeholdersbijeenkomst 'Energie en Armoedebestrijding', 30-01-2003) (in Dutch)

Progress or Peril? Partnerships and Networks in Global Environmental Governance. The Post-Johannesburg Agenda
Book building on the results of a workshop on the promise of partnerships at the WSSD. The book explores the potential as well as the limits of partnerships for the advancement of sustainable development by bringing together information of both practitioners and researchers (published by The Global Public Policy Institute, Washington D.C)

Towards a Global Partnership for Sustainable Development
EU document being a communication from the Commission to the European Parliament, the Council, the Economic and Social Committee and the Committee of the Regions on a global partnership for sustainable development.

Managing Partnerships: Tools for Mobilising the Public Sector, Business and Civil Society as Partners in Development
Highly practical guide to the partnership-building process. It follows a sequence from the early planning stages to the measurement of the impact of partnership activities. The book contains a mixture of tools and techniques, presentation materials, guidelines, and checklists for action. The lessons about partnerships are drawn from more than 25 examples around the world (published by The Prince of Wales Business Leaders Forum, London)

Putting Partnerships to Work: Strategic Alliances for Development between Government, the Private Sector and Civil Society
Book about partnerships between the private sector, government and civil society. Its objective is to share practical experiences in establishing and implementing such partnerships and to show how partnerships work (published by Greenleaf Publishing, Sheffield)

Poverty documents

Public private partnerships for poverty eradication? Action or just words?
ECN/ETC 2003 (in Dutch)
This is a background document, written for the stakeholders meeting on Energy and Poverty, held in 2003 in Utrecht, the Netherlands. The relation between energy and development is explored both at the international and bilateral level, and the positive and negative aspects of public private partnerships is further analyzed.

Energy for the poor, Underpinning the millennium development goals
DFID, 2002.
In this issue of DFID (Department For International Development, G.B.) the relation between energy and poverty is explained. Energy can play a crucial role in underpinning efforts to achieve the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and improving the lives of poor people across the world. Lack of access to adequate, affordable, reliable, safe and environmentally benign energy is a severe constraint on development. And the number of people without that access, even to meet their basic needs, is staggering: two billion people lack clean, safe cooking fuels and must depend on traditional biomass sources.

Policy documents

Business opportunities abroad and Financial Support (pdf 211 kB)
Overview of grant programmes and financial support facilities.
The document provides information to Dutch entrepreneurs on grant programmes and financial support facilities to improve Dutch companies' prospects in foreign markets. It focuses on energy services.

Mutual interests, Mutual Responsibilities - Dutch development co-operation and route to 2015
Ministry of Development Cooperation, 2003 (in Dutch)
This policy memorandum outlines the Netherlands' new development policy. As the title suggests, development cooperation calls for commitment from everyone involved: the Netherlands, other donors, civil society organisations, the private sector, individual citizens and multilateral organisations, as well as the development countries themselves.

Draft: Bridging the Energy Gap, a Strategy for Dutch Development Cooperation
DGIS, 2003
This Paper briefly sets out the relevant Dutch policy framework and activities in the field of energy, and the way in which Netherlands Development Cooperation will contribute to the implementation of what was agreed at WSSD.

Report of the World Summit on Sustainable Development Johannesburg, South Africa
26 August - 4 September 2002, UN, New York 2002
The representatives of the peoples of the world, assembled at the World Summit on Sustainable Development in Johannesburg, South Africa, from 2 to 4 September 2002, reaffirm our commitment to sustainable development.