CCE in Development AlliancesCase StudiesCoca Cola Coca Cola Microsoft Pact Angola and Chevron Corporation
A total of 36 NGOs from 11 different geographic areas participated in extensive Pact training, focusing on financial management, human resource management, strategic planning, governance and civil society. Two Pact facilitators conducted "Strategic Planning" and "Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation" workshops for ASSOMECA and 13 other Cabinda-based NGOs. Chevron paid all costs with the exception of the Pact training manuals. Pact offered key components of its standard NGO strengthening series to NGOs in Cabinda at almost no cost. Chevron also sent one of their Business Development staff to be trained as a facilitator in Pact's "NGO Governance" and "Human Resource Management" training modules. In return for this "technology transfer" made by Pact, Chevron agreed to replicate these two workshops with the same Cabinda-based groups of NGOs who participated in the first round of training. Pact Indonesia, Yayasan Pakta and Cabot Corporation As the relationship deepened and as the capacity of Pact's local NGO partner Yayasan Pakta grew, working agreements were put into place directly between Yayasan Pakta and the Cabot Corporation Foundation. With assistance from, and in close collaboration with, the Foundation, Yayasan Pakta developed an extensive outreach and internet education and awareness program for youth regarding HIV/AIDS. At the invitation of Yayasan Pakta, Cabot staff also participated in local community meetings to design the program, which helped to build trust on both sides. Finally, an informal steering committee was formed, comprised of Yayasan Pakta's Executive Director, Pact/Indonesia's Country Representative, and P.T. Cabot Indonesia's President Director. Banking on Youth – Pact Vietnam and Citibank
Implementing the program drew upon the strengths of each partner. Citibank brought technical support, knowledge of the banking sector in Viet Nam and program capital; the Youth Federation brought its extensive local network of young entrepreneurs; and Pact brought knowledge of microfinance and small enterprise development. The goals of the project were only partially met. Due to differences in understanding of the fundamentals of program sustainability, the local partner did not expand its capacity to run sustainable microfinance programs. However, microfinance best practices training manuals (including: "Module I: Microfinance Accounting Systems, An Introduction to Field and Project Accounting" and "Module II: Microfinance Best Practices: An Introduction to Best Practices in Project Design for Microfinance") were developed. Corporate Community Engagement in Brazil Instituto Ethos and Samarco Mineração Pact and Instituto Ethos worked closely with Samarco to ensure that a sustainable relationship was created and that specific goals identified during the E2A process were met. The company and community built these goals together with a common understanding of the concerns and values of the community and a commitment to the proposed methodology. This relationship was based on a theory of trust and transparency between the company and community. The Extractive Industries Network (EIN) – Pact Congo Currently, Pact is working in 70 villages throughout Katanga province and may expand to Orientale province in Northeast Congo. Activities fall primarily in two categories: social development and good governance. On the social development side, Pact is working with companies and local communities to identify needs and design sustainable and effective solutions. Programs include education, health, agricultural extension, small and medium enterprise development and small infrastructure projects. Pact believes local communities must be involved in projects from the outset in order to ensure sustainability and success. Pact thus helps companies communicate with communities in order to both manage expectations and to identify mutually agreeable development interventions. Pact's governance work seeks to create the enabling environment for successful business and poverty reduction. Pact helps companies understand the major governance issues in the Congo and builds programs to enable companies to meet international norms and standards. For example, Pact is currently working with security managers for a number of companies in Katanga province to help with the practical implementation of the Voluntary Principles on Security and Human Rights (VPs). Pact has created a space for managers to discuss the context specific challenges and to develop appropriate solutions. Pact then helps monitor the implementation of the VPs and devise company-specific tailored solutions to weaknesses. Pact is also working with companies, communities and international stakeholders to develop innovative solutions to the issue of artisan mining. Artisan mining, while legal under certain parameters and under certain conditions, is often practiced in ways that endanger the safety of the miners themselves and can seriously impact large-scale mining operations. Pact is a world leader in the development of viable solutions to these issues. Strengthening Community Responses to Disease – Pact Myanmar and Unocal Myanmar Offshore Ltd. Two primary objectives drive SCR.
To date, Pact Myanmar's Strengthening Community Responses to Disease (SCR), has reached 650,000 people in730 rural villages in 7 townships in the Dry Zone, Myanmar. By March 2010, the initiative has been planned to reach 2,122 rural villages in 15 townships, with a total population of 1.8 million. The project takes an innovative commitment-building approach that employs participatory learning and action to build sustained community responses to disease. A community health and development approach provides the cornerstone for our interventions. A three-day nonprescriptive workshop enables a community to explore the health situation in its village, analyze the nature of diseases they are burdened with, and develop action plans to address priority concerns. Plans can vary widely from describing steps that result in improved latrine construction, to community-led HIV/AIDS education for self-identified vulnerable groups, and development of procedures to ensure that people on directly observed treatment short courses (DOTs) get their treatments. The second focal point of Pact's approach involves the local design and management of a Village Health and Development Fund (VHDF). The VHDF is generated through a mix of household-level contributions with matching support at the time of establishment from Pact. Communities set their own priorities for how the fund is used, typically giving higher interest loans to the more well-off within the community, and using these proceeds to subsidize the health and development needs of the community's poorest. Successful community management of a fund is one of the strongest indicators of empowerment, not just for the benefits that the fund provides to its members, but for its role in binding groups in support of further reaching objectives. For complete case study, please click here. [DOC] Pfizer and Pact Cambodia Stigma and discrimination against people living with HIV/AIDS (PLHIV) and orphans and vulnerable children persist in Cambodia. Community-based discrimination isolates PLHIV and forces those most vulnerable underground with negative consequences to their physical and psychosocial health. As HIV/AIDS has spread out of the cities and into the rural areas, more and more children are suffering from the impact of AIDS – not through their own infection, but because the disease is taking away their parents. As parents become infected, their health deteriorates, roles are reversed, and children begin taking care of their parents. Once a parent dies, children are left without the care, support and protection needed to become health and productive citizens. They become even more at risk of leaving school, developing health problems and exploitation. The Pfizer-Pact partnership, now in its fifth year, has supported a variety of work with other NGO and health care partners to reduce stigma and discrimination, promote better health care, and provide support for PLHIV and strengthening coping mechanisms for orphans and vulnerable children in target communities. The partnership has produced a toolkit, has created three provincial networks, has trained PLHIV support group leaders, and has strengthened awareness and skills among health provider organizations and community-based care providers at the community level. Training and outreach activities target care providers and PLHIV, especially in the remote areas, through:
Discrimination and stigma associated with PLHIV and orphaned and vulnerable children exacerbate the difficulties in addressing the disease since they inhibit people from disclosing their disease and pursuing appropriate care and treatment. This has serious repercussions for the larger society, community health and well-being. Pfizer is addressing HIV/AIDS through its core business. Through its corporate responsibility and philanthropy, Pfizer seeks to broaden the reach of its education on HIV/AIDS awareness and prevention, care and treatment through civil society networks and programs that reach people the company's core business operations would not ever reach directly.
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Pact became involved with Instituto Ethos located in Sao Paulo, Brazil in June 1999. Pact and Ethos recognized that the highly participatory elements of Pact tools and approaches could benefit stakeholder engagement, particularly when working with representatives of the local community. Pact sought to test the E2A approach with a company that met specific criteria. The company had to have a strong reputation in pursuing social responsibility, be located in a sector of importance to engagement, express a long-term commitment to the engagement process, and have clear support from executive leadership to pursue such activities. In November of 2000, Pact and Samarco Mineração, a mining company of iron ore pellets for blast furnaces, which met all of the above criteria, signed an agreement to test the approach.