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Current Relationships

• Fund for Peace Human Rights & Business Roundtable

Pact participates in this forum for dialogue, sharing its practical experience on issues of business and human rights from its social development implementation activities on the ground in many countries and with several companies and benefiting from the experience of other participants.

• Communities and Small-Scale Mining (CASM)

Pact is on the Strategic Management Advisory Board of Communities and Small Scale Mining (CASM) where we contribute our experiences and learn from an international body of expertise.
Communities and Small-Scale Mining (CASM) is chaired by the UK government?s Department for International Development and is housed at the World Bank in Washington D.C. It was launched in March 2001 in response to international recognition of the need for an integrated approach to address the challenges facing ASM communities and for improved coordination between institutions funding and executing assistance. CASM began as a multi-donor networking and coordination facility that would engage with practicing miners, their associations and communities, governments and non-governmental organizations, and development assistance agencies.
www.casmsite.org

Formative Relationships

• The Global Reporting Initiative

Pact and The Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) entered into a strategic partnership, to explore ways for the two organizations to work together, particularly in the areas of stakeholder participation and measurements of community engagement. GRI is an international multi-stakeholder effort to create a common framework for voluntary reporting of the economic, environmental and social impacts of organizations and corporations. Its mission is to elevate the comparability and credibility of sustainability reporting practices worldwide by incorporating the active participation of businesses, accountancy, human rights, environmental, labor, and governmental organizations.
In launching the relationship, GRI asked Pact to extend an invitation to our broad constituency, summoning those who are interested in improving public sustainability reporting to participate in GRI?s international network of "Individual Stakeholders." Participation significantly strengthens the GRI's effort to create improved transparency and accountability in the age of globalization.

• Pact and the International Business Leaders Forum

In 1997, Pact began a working partnership with the Prince of Wales Business Leaders Forum, now the International Business Leaders Forum (IBLF). Together we worked for two years with funding from USAID?s PVC office to strengthen the capacity of local NGO and businesses to develop NGO-business partnerships. Utilizing the organizational strengths of each institution, IBLF and Pact implemented the NGO-Business Partnership program to produce the following outputs:

1. A minimum of three working partnerships at the field level.
2. Increased mobilization of human resources including:
• greater understanding by NGOs of how to build partnerships with the business sector
• increased confidence by NGOs in building business partnerships
• greater understanding of the range of potential in-kind business contributions to the NGO sector
• increased leveraging of in-kind (and/or other direct) business contributions by the business sector
• new models for NGO/business sector cross-fertilization, such as mentoring, management shadowing, etc.
3. Improved leveraging of financial and material resources by PVO and NGO partners including:
• increased participation by the business sector in social development
• decreased NGO dependency on donors for long-term sustainability
• increased use of a "value added/multiplier effect" resulting from business partnerships and linkages with the business sector

Working in Brazil, Indonesia, and Peru, the IBLF and Pact devised a wide-range of strategies for creating interfaces with the private sector, including hosting national partnership planning meetings with key business, community and government representatives; conducting small intensive "Insight to Action" meetings which featured best practices in private/public sector collaboration and set the stage for action planning, providing specialized NGO training on effective approaches to the business sector, and devising training materials to guide local Pact offices and local NGO partners.

• The Center for Corporate Citizenship at Boston College

Pact and The Center for Corporate Citizenship at Boston College collaborated to develop and apply some tools for stakeholder mapping and issues analysis designed to be helpful to a wide range of stakeholders, including business and NGO stakeholders. These tools were tested in specific projects with companies, and helped those companies strengthen their internal capacity for improving consideration of stakeholder mapping and issues analysis in project planning cycles.