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IGCN has actively participated in the National and Regional Consultation Meetings organized by the National Committee on the Post-2015 Development Agenda as well as initiated the Private Sector Leaders Roundtables:
1) Workshop on Post-2015 Development Agenda, Jakarta 6 September 2012
(National Committee)
2) Regional Meeting & Stakeholder Consultation, Bali 13-14 December 2012
(National Committee)
3) Private Sector Leaders Roundtable , Jakarta 16 January 2013
(IGCN/Paramadina University)
4) National Consultation on Post-2015 Development Agenda, Jakarta 20-21 February 2013 (National Committee)
5) Indonesia Marketing Business Leaders Meeting, Batam 2 March 2013
(IGCN/Indonesia Marketing Association)
6) Private Sector Leaders Roundtable, Bali 24-25 March 2013 (IGCN/UNGC)
The Bali meeting was conducted with the support of the United Nations Global Compact (UNGC) in conjunction with the 4th High Level Panel for Eminent Persons Meeting on 26-27 March 2013.
This publication is intended to share the outcome documents as a result of the roundtables. It is our hope this report may serve as a useful reference in developing multi-stakeholder partnership. It is our hope that every single idea, solution and recommendation derived from the roundtables inspires and rejuvenates new spirit to mainstream the Global Compact Principles in order to achieve The Future We Wa t
Along with this report, I would like to express my gratitude to all participants who have been contributing very thoughtful ideas and recommendation. My appreciation to The Preside t’s Delivery Unit for Development Monitoring and Oversights (UKP4), for the partnership and opportunity to work together. And last but not least, my sincere thanks to UNGC for its tremendous support, and to my superb team in IGCN, who have dedicated all their time and efforts to make the event successful.
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PRIVATE SECTOR LEADERS ROUNDTABLE ON POST-2015 DEVELOPMENT AGENDA Jakarta, 16 January & 20-21 February 2013
Outcome Document
Indonesia Global Compact Network (IGCN) in partnership with
The Preside t’s Deli ery U it for De elop e t Mo itori g a d O ersights UKP4
Introduction
1. This report is an update to the Outcome Document of Private Sector Leaders Roundtable on Post-2015 Development Agenda conducted by Indonesia Global Compact Network (IGCN) on 16 January 2012. As a follow on to the Monrovia meeting, the National Committee on Post-2015 Development Agenda organized Natio al Consultation on Post-2015 Development Age da in Jakarta, 20-21 February 2013. More than 30 Indonesian Private Sector representatives participated in the Private Sector discussion in the meeting led by IGCN. Participating in the discussion were representative from Indonesian Chamber of Commerce (KADIN), Indonesian Business Council on Sustainable Development (IBCSD) and Indonesia Business Links (IBL). The outcome of the discussion is incorporated in this report.
2. This document is proposed to be used as reference and guidance for the Outreach Session of the Private Sector of the 3rd High Level Panel of Eminent Persons (HLPEP) Meeting in Bali, 24-25 March 2013 which will be attended by representatives from Asia Pacific countries. It is opened for further discussions and improvements before submission to the HLPEP.
3. IGCN in partnership with the National Committee arranged a Private Sector progress of Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) whose milestone year of 2015 is approaching. In addition to that, the Private Sector Leaders Roundtable was also aimed to give inputs on the development of new global commitment of Post-2015 Development Agenda and the roles of private sector in global development, looking at Indonesian context as a source of reference where their businesses operate.
5. The Private Sector Leaders Roundtable was intended as one of the Indonesian private se tor’s collective contributions to the President of Republic Indonesia, Soesilo Bambang Yudoyono, who has been appointed by the UN Secretary General as one of the Co-Chair of High Level Panel of Eminent Persons (HLPEP) on Post-2015 Development Agenda, together with UK Prime Minister David Cameron and President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf of Liberia. The Panel, among other things, is expected to provide inputs to the development of Post-2015 Development Agenda and key principles to strengthen global partnerships including the public-private partnerships. In response to this, IGCN initiated to organize the Private Sector Leaders Roundtable. We see that this Roundtable is also our attempt to follow up the UN Sustainable Development and UNGC Corporate Sustainability Forum (Rio+20 Conference) as well in UKP4 Regional Meeting and Stakeholder Consultation on the Post-2015 Development Agenda in Bali, in December 2012.
Vision, Paradigm and Time-frame
6. We believe that MDGs are still relevant. Billions of people still live in poverty. Hundred millions of people including women still cannot have access to safe and clean water and sanitation. Mothers in developing countries or poorest regions still face extreme risks of death in delivering newborns. We cannot, and should not, pay lessened attention to these human dignity deprivations. We are convinced that the human rights and social development is the necessary condition to enhance sustainable development.
7. The Post-2015 Development Agenda should be able to continue to focus on poverty eradication and sustainable development as the overarching and interlinked objectives. As much as we believe that efforts to achieve sustainable development should be the main focus of the Post-2015 Development Agenda, we also believe that the human rights and social development as advocated by the MDGs should be further pursued by the Post-2015 Development Agenda. 8. Looking at the MDGs, we expect that the Post-2015 Development Agenda will
consist of a more robust and comprehensive Development Goals, accompanied by specific, fair, measurable, achievable, flexible and time-bound targets and indicators to be achieved by all countries. The targets may vary for each country according to the country specific environment.
9. We consider that the Post-2015 Development Agenda should have 15-20 year of time frame. During this period, the goals should be split into multiple 5-year cycles where each country determines the targets according to its specific condition.
The inter-linkages and Multi-sectoral Approach
11. Despite many global commitments and conventions been pledged so far, we also understand that we need to translate those commitments to deal with issues of Climate Change, Food Security, Disaster Risk Reduction, and Energy Security, among some of the new emerging issues, into concrete actions on the ground for the people, who seek to check those commitments made by their leaders against tangible outcomes.
12. The Post-2015 Development Agenda should not become just a other global o it e t with which promises are hard to be kept and doomed to be failed at the end of the day.
13. Post-2015 Development Agenda should be able to advocate fundamental paradigm shift of our usi ess-as-usual approach to sustainable development approach. The sustainable development principles should be mainstreamed into national and sub-national policy-making processes including those of private sector especially the financial and investment industry. The implementation of inclusive business to help alleviating poverty should be part of business strategy. 14. We strongly urge that the global Post-2015 Development Agenda is translated
into National and Sub-Nationals Agenda, and it should be synchronized with the Medium and Long-Term Development Plans to provide actionable policies and programs with specific targets and indicators. We also encourage that the national and sub-nationals Post-2015 Development Agenda stipulate the required resources to finance within designated time period.
15. We urge broader and parallel engagements of all stakeholders at national and sub-national levels in the discussion of the Post-2015 Development Agenda, to create not only broad-based understanding of the Post-2015 Development Agenda but also cascade down the Goals into national and sub-national development plans and budgets, mainstream the Targets and Indicators into Monitoring, Reporting and Verification (MRV) system and other actions. We learn today we can only achieve the Goals if all are committed and assume their responsibilities to keep the promises fulfilled.
Prioritized Development Issues
17. The Post-2015 Development Agenda should include a set of key prioritized development issues. These areas are interlinked and required multiple yet coherent approaches to achieve sustainable development. The following are key development issues identified as the key priorities of the Post-2015 Development Agenda:
1) Poverty and Inequality 2) Education
3) Health
4) Environmental Sustainability
5) Access to Energy and Energy Security
6) Human Settlement and Access to Water and Sanitation 7) Food Security
8) Gender Equality and Women Empowerment 9) Basic Public Infrastructure
10) Good Governance, Rule of Law, and Public Policy
Poverty and Inequality
18. Poverty eradication should still be the core of development agenda to be pursued. Despite global success in halving the number of people living in extreme poverty globally, the other halve is still living in poverty. The journey to move the poor out of poverty is merely half-met. We need to remain focus; in fact, we need to galvanize more and more effective actions and shall spare no efforts to move the other halve out of poverty. Reaching out to the other halve might pose greater difficulties as the poor might live in very remote and/or under-developed areas, that addressing the poverty issues might require a new mix set of development policies.
19. These new mix set of development policies should be aimed to unlock local economic and social opportunities that can empower the poor to move out of poverty sustainably. Such policies would comprise of, for instance, local income-generating programs accompanied by basic infrastructure development. We believe that no single sectoral policy can meet the complex and interlinked challenges of our current and future development that we must pursue an interdependent and multi-sectoral approach to our development if we want to achieve a sustainable development.
20. The Post-2015 Development Agenda should give emphasize on targeting full and productive employment including for women and young workers, both at national and sub-national levels, as an approach to poverty eradication. We believe sustainable growth with equity can be achieved, among other things, if all people can be productive and have jobs that provide adequate income. The Post-2015 Development Agenda should also promote decent works for all while also promote social protection to reduce vulnerabilities to poverty among the poor and near-poor people.
21. Though poverty is in decreasing trend, inequalities – inter and/or intra groups – might be widening. This might not be the case of developing countries only, but also developed countries as well. In addition to that, we witness that inequalities might also happen within sub-national levels, between rural and urban areas and among geographical regions. It is another challenge that we must fully aware to ensure that the benefits of economic growth are fairly distributed among inter and/or intra groups. We believe that inequality measurements should be included with set of ambitious targets as part of poverty eradication agenda to achieve the sustainable development.
23. We believe that access to basic education is crucial for sustainable development that it should receive a high priority in the Post-2015 Development Agenda. Many developing countries have imposed education system and policies that enable school-age children to receive formal education up to 9-year of education. As a result, Net Enrollment Rates of primary and secondary educations in many developing countries have now reached the highest level in the last decade in almost all sub-national levels, while national literacy rates have improved significantly as well.
We therefore propose that we should daringly expand our target of the basic edu atio to not only up to secondary education but to a higher level, a college/ university degree. That everyone should be able to finish at least a college/ polytechnic/university degree equipped our future generation with specific skills that enable them to compete in a globalized and competitive economy.
25. Beyond numbers of people attended and graduated of higher schools, the Post-2015 Development Agenda should give emphasize on the improvement of education quality and its measurements. Proportion of students taught by well-trained teachers and average total hours of a teacher teaching per week, for instances, can be used to measure the quality of education.
26. Equal access to education must be guaranteed for girls and women, people with disabilities, indigenous people, minority groups and others, as we believe that education can lead to economic and social empowerment and promote sustainable development, by unleashing untapped sources of sustainable growth with better equity.
27. We also urge the Post-2015 Development Agenda to promote education system that advance the development of self-reliance economies by recognizing vocational and life-skill education.
Health
28. The MDGs have prioritized key health challenges to be addressed by 2015: maternal mortality, child mortality, dietary sufficiency, and communicable diseases including HIV/AIDS, malaria and TB. There were some progress have been made, but we still see that a large number of unnecessary deaths of mothers and under-five children still take place.
29. In addition to that, we definitely need to include more health-related goals and indicators as part of the Post-2015 Development Agenda to better reflect the quality of our people’s health and to measure our progress.
30. Access to local health services, for instance, can measure the availability of health services when people feel sickness or need medical consultation and treatment. The proportion of community or local health services per 1,000 people, for example, can be used to indicate accessibility of local health services. Prevention and health promotion as an approach to reduce vulnerability toward HIV/AIDS and other communicable diseases should be strengthened through health campaigns and public awareness activities.
31. We could not emphasize more that the improved health outcomes can be derived from various non-health policies. Sub-nationals with poor quality of health outcomes sometimes are sub-nationals that have poor infrastructure and transportation development such as access roads, sea ports, bridges, water supply, sewage management and others.
Environmental Sustainability
33. Environmental sustainability is an increasingly important issue to be addressed by the Post-2015 Development Agenda. Given the challenges we face today, we should not continue our usi ess as usual approach in dealing with the environment and biodiversities if we would like to have sustainable development. The inter-linkages of the environmental sustainability and equitable growth should be well-developed and be promoted by the Post-2015 Development Agenda.
34. In addition to that, any efforts to eradicate poverty should integrate the carrying capacity of the environment and the natural resources and their boundaries and, in any cases, they should also promote reversal of environmental degradation. 35. We have known that efforts to reverse environmental degradation can also be
accompanied or made through various alternative income-generating activities, thus this interlinked approach should be pursued by the Post-2015 Development Agenda.
36. The MDG target that call for integration of sustainable development principles into country policies and programs to reverse the loss of environmental resources and biodiversities, should be highly visible in the Post-2015 Development Agenda. The integration should take place in the sectoral, national as well as sub-national development planning processes.
37. A responsible and prudent commitment to sustainability in any industries should be pursued to balance the environmental, social and economic interest. The Post-2015 Development Agenda should pursue the systematic use of tools such as Environmental Assessments and Environmental Impact Assessments for evaluating the impacts of development programs and projects, to support the mainstreaming of environment and biodiversity into sectoral and national and sub-national planning processes.
38. Environmental sustainability concept is interlinked with our production and consumption patterns that must be sustainable as well. The Post-2015 Development Agenda should explicitly promote sustainable production and consumption patterns, that it calls for both the production side and consumption side to take fully responsibilities of their ecological footprints and make fundamental breakthroughs to reduce them below the ecological thresholds. 39. Priority sectors, such as forest-based and other resource-based industries as well
as transportation and manufacturing industries, can become the champions of this initiative to make impactful outcomes to our sustainable development. 40. The Post-2015 Development Agenda should promote the development and use of
41. Moreover, the Post-2015 Development Agenda should also address the water conservation and management, including rivers, mining area, etc as integrated part of environmental aspect as well as basic human need for life.
42. As we believe that many local communities have developed their local wisdoms in dealing with natural disasters, we encourage that the Post-2015 Development Agenda should recognize and promote the Community-Based Disaster Risk Mitigation and Resiliency to Natural Disasters.
Access to Energy and Energy Security
43. Accesses to affordable energy and energy services remain as major challenges for the poor today. We have witnessed that the global energy crisis translated into increased fuel prices, have impacted mostly to the poor. And we have also witnessed that, to a various level, it has hampered the poverty eradication efforts as the poor must pay a larger sum of money to purchase the energy services such as fuels for transportation, heating for cooking, and other energy services while their incomes remain the same. We agree that energy is critical to both social and economic development that wider and greater access to energy services is important to achieve sustainable development.
44. We strongly hope that the Post-2015 Development Agenda can accommodate this issue through promotion of access to affordable and safe energy and energy services. In addition to that, inventions on renewable energy should be encouraged and disseminated widely especially for poor countries with supports of donors and development agencies.
Human Settlement and Access to Water and Sanitation
45. Human settlement is another key challenge we must face to achieve sustainable development. As population grows and development occurs, rural areas have transformed into urban areas. Cities are emerging and megacities are expanding. We have witnessed that more and more people will live in urban areas than rural areas that the demand for human settlements is increasing sharply. While the land stock remains unchanged in urban areas or cities, vertical human settlements is the best option available for improving the livelihood of the poor and slum dwellers.
45. Access to safe and clean water is still a major challenge nowadays especially for people living in remote villages as well as in urban slum areas. We fully understand that to expand wider access to safe and clean water requires a huge investment to be made, that we strongly urge the expansion of public-private partnership approach to encourage more private companies to make the required investment with close supervision by the governments to ensure the public interest is well-served.
46. With expanded supports of donors and development agencies, we encourage that the Post-2015 Development Agenda recognize and promote community-based water management existed in many developing countries including Indonesia, as a local sustainable water system that can be expanded to reach the unreached acceleration of access to basic sanitation to be one of the priorities.
Food Security
50. In the face of expanding global population, we must ensure our food production can meet the needs for food globally. The poor and marginal groups are sometimes the hardest hit by food crises in the forms of scarcity of staple foods and higher and unstable prices. We believe that each country has the rights to advance its food security policies through self-reliance of its production. We also encourage that the Post-2015 Development Agenda should also promote regional arrangements to stabilize production and consumption and help to fill in food deficits countries during failed harvest period.
51. We believe that we must improve our agricultural sector by increasing productivity of our land crops to increase our sustainable food production. We need not to emphasize that food security is very important for the achievement of global sustainable development.
Gender Equality and Women Empowerment
52. We believe that gender equality and women empowerment is still important as a separate Goal in the Post-2015 Development Agenda, though we are very sure that the concept should be inherent in the rest of the Agenda. Women empowerment should be emphasized to enable girls and women to be able to fully use and increase their capacity to participate in the sustainable development through economic and social empowerment.
Basic Public Infrastructure
54. We believe that poverty eradication cannot be achieved without the investments in public infrastructures as mandatory requirements such as roads, bridges, ports, electricity, telecommunication and others nationally, including the poorest areas or remote economies. These basic infrastructures can unlock local and remote economies to produce products and services and open up opportunities to trade with other local economies as well as international markets. The Post-2015 Development Agenda should give appropriate attention to promote investment in basic public infrastructures to promote sustainable development and poverty eradication.
55. We see that access to telecommunication is getting more and more important. We witness that innovations in science and technology can be used to improve good governance as initiated by many national and sub-national governments. We believe that digital i lusi e ess can also enhance poverty eradication initiatives. As computers, cellular phones, and other technological-based products will change the shape of our socio-economies and how we communicate with others, technological advancement, such as broadband internet, can and should be used to unlock access of local small-scale economies to larger markets. The Post-2015 Development Agenda should include inclusive targets of access to the technological advancement.
Good Governance, Rule of Law and Public Policy
56. We strongly believe that good governance is a critical enabling factor, among other things, for our efforts to eradicate poverty and achieve sustainable development. Good governance principles i.e. transparency, accountability, responsiveness, participatory, equitable and inclusiveness, effective and efficient, the rules of law, and consensus-oriented, should be promoted by the Post-2015 Development Agenda as fundamental values that guide our efforts to achieve sustainable development.
57. Strong political will to eradicate corruption, effective public policies to ensure balance of growth, just spatial management, basic infrastructure development, conducive business climate, public services, are also critical enabling factors that government should provide either fully or through public-private-partnership. Rule of law should be promoted by all state and local institutions.
Private Sector’s Role in Post-2015 Development Agenda
59. We believe that the private sector will continue to be the key agent of development at global, national and sub-nationals, by providing employment and job creation, promotion of human capacity and development, socio-economic empowerment, provision of products and services, technological diffusion, as well as tax contributor. We acknowledge that implementation of Good Corporate Governance in our business will also be our contribution to the achievement of Post-2015 Development Agenda.
60. We recognize that the private sector will play a pivotal role in delivering the Post-2015 Development Agenda into actions. As much as we sincerely believe that the Post-2015 Development Agenda is our world leaders’ pledges, we are committed to embrace the Goals and make them our own development goals.
61. As much as we believe that we want our business is sustainable, we also want to grow our business in a sustainable environment, in a sustainable way, in a world without poverty, for a sustainable development.
Mechanisms of Partnership
63. We are ready to expand our partnerships with any development agencies including governments, non-government organizations, UN agencies, as well as donors and others, to achieve the future we a t through public-private partnerships and promotion of social entrepreneurships.
64. We also believe we can accelerate poverty eradication by creating more
employment and boosting equitable growth and advance social development as well. We are ready to expand our partnerships and participate in any
development initiatives of the governments as well as CSOs and others to achieve the Post-2015 Development Agenda. We are ready to increase our participation participate in a transparent and accountable process of planning, implementation, monitoring and reporting of development initiatives.
No. Name Company/Institution 1 Y.W. Junardy IGCN/Rajawali Corpora 2 Sancoyo Antarikso IGCN/Unilever Indonesia 3 DR. Martha Tilaar IGCN/Martha Tilaar Group 4 Sinta Kaniawati IGCN/Unilever Indonesia 5 Nuning S. Barwa IGCN/Martha Tilaar Group 6 Timotheus Lesmana IGCN/Asia Pulp and Paper 7 Hendra Warsita IGCN/MarkPlus, Inc 8 Fachry Mohammad IGCN/SmartFM 9 Debora R. Tjandrakusuma Nestlé Indonesia 10 Bobby Joris Green Eagle Group 11 Hamid Batubara Chevron Pacific Asia 12 Joko Arif Carrefour Indonesia
13 Thomas Darmawan Asosiasi Pengusaha Pengelohan dan Pemasaran Produk Perikanan Indonesia
14 DR. Nofrisel, SE,MM, CSLP Jalur Nugraha Ekakurir (JNE) 15 Ir. Ciputra CIPUTRA Group
16 Dr. Andi Ilham Said PPM School of Management
17 Michael C.N. C.G. Putra Shell Upstream Indonesia Services B.V. 18 Prof. Andrianto Widjaja School of Management LABORA 19 Ahmad Djauhar Bisnis Indonesia
20 Maya D. Tanama Executrain Nusantarajaya 21 Robby J. Gunawan Indesco Aroma
No. Name Company/Institution 24 Rina Ciputra Sastrawinata CIPUTRA Group 25 Wilson Siahaan Asia Pulp & Paper 26 Miranti Abidin Fortune PR
27 Semerdanta Pusaka Aicon Global Indonesia 28 Ahmad Yuniarto Schlumberger
29 Abdul Karim Insera Sena
30 Kol. Sugeng S Kementerian Pertahanan Republik Indonesia 31 Drg. Mirna Putriantiwi Kementerian Kesehatan Republik Indonesia 32 Irwan Kementerian Kesehatan Republik Indonesia
33 Setiawan Kalbe Farma
34 Agus Firmansyah MarkPlus, Inc
35 Stefanus Indrayana Indofood Sukses Makmur
36 Rosmery Media Indonesia
37 Budi Rustanto Media Nusantara Citra 38 Charles Saerang Nyonya Meneer
39 Lina Salim, S.E., MBA., M.A.,
Ph.D., CPM (A) Universitas Katolik Indonesia Atma Jaya 40 Joseph Dharmabrata Tranaco Utama
41 Clara Wresti Kompas
42 Sakariza Qory Hemawan Bank Negara Indonesia 43 Josephine Satyono ABM investama
44 Nancy Martasuta Bank Negara Indonesia 45 Supi C Nadyastuti SWA Magazine
46 Indira Abidin Fortune PR
47 Nendro Majalah Hidup
PRIVATE SECTOR LEADERS ROUNDTABLE ON POST-2015 DEVELOPMENT AGENDA Bali, 24-25 March 2013
Outcome Document
Indonesia Global Compact Network (IGCN) in partnership with United Nations Global Compact (UNGC) and
The Preside t’s Deli ery U it for De elop e t Mo itori g a d O ersights UKP4
Business has an enormous stake in contributing to sustainable development - healthy societies and healthy markets go hand-in-hand. Markets are essential for creating and diffusing solutions that will drive the changes our world needs. But, this will not happen through business as usual. Investment and business activity must be sustainable – delivering value not just financially, but also in social, environmental and ethical terms.
Delivering a better future for all requires collective action and partnerships uniting Governments, corporations, citizens, consumers, workers, investors and educators. Undoubtedly, the private sector has a central role to play. As the orld’s main source of economic activity, business is at the heart of virtually any widespread improvements in living standards.
With this understanding the Indonesia National Committee of the Post-2015 Development Agenda requested the Indonesia Global Compact Network to organize an event to gather private sector perspectives on the sidelines of the 4th meeting of the High-Level Panel of Eminent Persons. The Private Sector Leaders Roundtable, co-convened with the United Nations Global Compact Office gathered over 100 business leaders representing 14 countries in Bali on 24-25 March; representatives from 5 Global Compact Local Networks also participated.
Keynote Speaker
Professor Jeffrey Sachs, The Earth Institute, Columbia University, in his keynote address, provided an overview of the process that led to the post-2015 development review. He outlined the distinction between the Millennium Development Goals and the proposed Sustainable Development Goals, which emerged from the Rio+20 negotiations. Prof. Sachs indicated that in his view future goals would address the three pillars of a healthy society: economic prosperity, social inclusion, environmental sustainability as well as good governance and partnerships. He underscored that responsible business will be a part of the solution, one where companies move beyond traditional notions of corporate social responsibility and integrate core business activities that are compatible with sustainable development.
The Most Pressing Global Issues
Participants received additional context on the post 2015 development agenda from Erna Witoelar, Former UN Special Ambassador for the MDGs in the Asia Pacific, who provided an overview of the status of the MDGs in the region. She indicated through a series of data points that the region is still behind in the achievement of the MDGs. The main reasons for this is that most countries were late to integrate the MDGs into planning and budgets and that many countries do not have sufficient data mechanisms to measure progress. She did indicate that more large companies have embraced the sustainability approach into their business strategies and along their value chains.
To provide additional context, particularly to companies attending the event with interest, but little experience in this space, representatives from country-level Global Compact Local Networks shared the results of post-2015 consultations that they conducted with companies from their countries. These inputs are a part of a broader consultation being conducted by the Global Compact Office; results were shared by Global Compact Local Network Representatives from Australia, China, India and Indonesia.
Following the briefing from Local Networks, participants were asked to discuss the following items, in roundtable format:
1. Prioritize the 5 development issues that are the most important for your businesses to be successful.
Issue prioritization was derived based on 13 roundtable discussions, where the results from each were tallied across all participants. The results of these discussions are reflected in the following word cloud, which represents the development issues that business can contribute to most strongly (where a larger font corresponds to a high prioritization):
The issue that was given the highest priority by business was Governance and rule of law. Participants indicated that without good governance it will be nearly impossible to make meaning progress in implementing programmes and activities to contribute to a future set of development goals. Further, corporate sustainability efforts can similarly be undermined when operating in a system where corruption exists. There were calls from participants to work collectively as a means to counteract a system that requires bribery as a means to do business.
The other issues that were highly prioritized were Education, Social Integration and Inclusion, Sustainable Consumption and Production and Poverty Eradication.
Summary of Selected Speakers’ Remarks
Betty Maina, Chief Executive, Ke ya’s Association of Manufacturers, High-Level Panel of Eminent Persons on the Post 2015 Development Agenda provided an overview of the High-Level Panel process. She indicated that while the work of the panel will culminate in 2013, with a report to the UN Secretary-General, that business and other stakeholders need to remain vigilant about the process – to assure that their input is duly incorporated. The objective of the HLP is to establish a universal framework so that all can find a manner to engage in the process. She envisioned an important role for business in the process, as an emphasis on job creation is emerging.
Paul Polman, CEO, Unilever, High-Level Panel of Eminent Persons on the Post 2015 Development Agenda, began by stating that it is likely one of the most exciting and energizing chapters of the Global Compact. This is because business, in critical mass, recognizes that they need to be involved in the process to set the framework for future development priorities. He indicated that it is enlightening to see how many companies are willing to be a part of it and indicated that the next challenge will be to translate the consultation processes into concrete action. He emphasized the importance of trust and said that business should be sure that it creates a positive climate of opportunity not a negative climate of limitations. He also spoke to the power of partnerships as a critical mechanism for implementation of the agenda.
George Soros, Chairman, Soros Fund Management, underscored the importance of social justice as a central theme for future development goals. He called on the business community to assure that social justice features among the priority issues that they identify. He indicated that where extreme poverty remains you find that the lack of justice is somehow responsible for people being excluded from the process. In his definition, access to justice includes property rights, citizen rights, rights of the stateless, excluded communities, migrants and disabled. He emphasized that if this is excluded then we will simply not be able to eliminate poverty.
Means of Implementation
Themes that arose across priority issues included the following:
Business can provide technical expertise and training on a variety of skill sets relevant to their functions. These opportunities, applied to the communities where they operate and throughout their value chain, can serve to establish mechanisms for sustainable job creation, additionally it can assure greater inclusivity for traditionally disadvantaged groups (e.g. indigenous peoples).
o Using such mechanism can empower greater entrepreneurship and support SMEs, which, if fostered, are seen as holding great job creation potential.
Companies believe that social inclusion is critical. Assuring inclusivity throughout operations will allow for more sustainable growth by creating positive impact within the communities where the company exists. A business can only thrive in markets with stable socio-economic activity.
Innovative business solutions are having an impact on issues such as sustainable production as well as energy access, water security and carbon emissions (such as online action hubs and business incubators). But to have a truly transformative effect, a quantum leap is needed. With the right incentives and enabling environments, the private sector can make significant and lasting contributions to address global challenges.
Partnerships with a variety of stakeholders (NGOs, Academia, Government, other Business, etc.) will be important to make significant ground on all issues, as the impact of a single organization can only go so far. In order to implement effective partnerships, clarity of roles and expectations between partners is needed at the outset. This will help to assure that all partnering entities enter into the arrangement with an aligned understanding, helping to reduce potential roadblocks to success.
o Business also recognizes the influence that other institutions have on their ability to scale up their impact. Academia can offer innovative approaches to systems approaches that may be engrained and outdated. NGOs can advocate strongly for issues where change is urgently needed, creating the space for business to make positive impacts. Responsible media and reporting can help create accurate public perception on the activities of business and other partners.
Business commitment to corporate sustainability through initiatives such as the Global Compact needs to be further scaled up. While the initiative has grown considerably, with today over 7,000 participants in over 140 countries, to reach a true level of transformative impact more companies need to commit to the initiative.
Expansion and deepening of business engagement in initiatives that contribute to key global challenges: Anti-Corruption, Caring for Climate, CEO Water Mandate, Conflict and Fragility, Every Women Every Child, Global Education First, Human Rights, Sustainable Energy for All and Wo e ’s Empowerment Principles.
Global impact can only be achieved through local action that is driven by and attuned to the unique history and economic, social and political environment within a given country. The system of over 100 Global Compact Local Networks provides a valuable resource for companies to engage on specific, local priorities that advance the post-2015 agenda.
Partnership is a key mechanism for advancing the post-2015 agenda. Additional efforts are needed to support the development of more transformational partnerships which have greater potential for scale and impact.
Clear accountability to evaluate progress. Wider corporate sustainability disclosure as well as new accounting frameworks that value financial, social and natural capital are needed.
In addition to the above means of implementation, participants also discussed a number of public policy recommendations. These recommendations include:
Re-align markets by appropriately pricing negative externalities, and include these factors in measurement of economic growth and societal well-being.
Pursue national strategies that create incentives for greater corporate sustainability through enhanced public-private partnerships and other collaborative arrangements.
Promote more widespread and comprehensive corporate sustainability disclosure.
Reformulate procurement and investment policies to align with corporate sustainability practices, while requiring that contracts and arrangements between government and business be transparent.
Delivery of Consultation Results
The results from the two-day consultation were immediately shared with representatives of the High-Level Panel at a Town Hall session. The High-Level Panel received the feedback from the private sector positively. While Panel members recognized the important role that business will play in the post 2015 development agenda, they did acknowledge that for business to make a positive contribution it can only be through responsible practices. This aligns well with the business perspective emerging from the Private Sector Leaders Roundtable that corporate sustainability and responsibility will be a core contribution of business to the post-2015 agenda.
No. Name Company/Institution
1 Adi Ekopriyono Budi Santoso Foundation and Suara Merdeka 2 Andri Trisuda Bisnis Indonesia
3 Agung Binantoro Rajawali Foundation 4 Ahmad Djauhar Bisnis Indonesia 5 Ahmad Yuniarto Schlumberger 6 Ajit Bikram Shah Lotus Holdings 7 Anna Laurentia Maria de Goede Unilever 8 Avnit Kumar Chopra Petronet LNG
9 Bernard Lim Pangansari Utama
10 Bernardio M. Vega Korpindo Konsultasi 11 Bobby Joris Green Eagle Group 12 Boedi Krisnawan Suhargo Villa Hutan Jati
13 Carina Larsfälten World Business Council for Sustainable Development
14 Catharina Widjaja Gajah Tunggal 15 Charles Saerang Njonja Meneer
16 Chris Canavan Soros Fund Management
17 Darian Stibbe International Business Leaders Forum 18 Debora R. Tjandrakusuma Nestlé Indonesia
19 Deni Puspahadi Indofood Sukses Makmur 20 Derk Chandra Golden Water Indonesia 21 Devy Firmansyah W. Telkomsel
22 Dianne Gayatri Rajaratnam Accenture
23 Dr Johanes Sulistijawan Batamindo Investment Cakrawala 24 Dr. Ir. Boto Simatupang MBP Universitas Bina Nusantara 25 DR. Martha Tillaar IGCN/Martha Tilaar Group 26 Drs. Eddie Cahyono Putro MBA Yayasan Bhumiksara
27 Erna Witoelar Former UN Special Ambassador for MDGs in Asia Pacific
28 Ernest Alto Siemens Indonesia
29 Fardila Astari Fortune Pramana Rancang 30 Felia Salim Bank Negara Indonesia 31 George Soros Open Society Foundation 32 Hamid Batubara Chevron Pacific Indonesia 33 Hermawan Kartajaya MarkPlus Inc.
No. Name Company/Institution 35 Imam B Sarjito Bank Negara Indonesia 36 Indira Ratna Dewi Fortune Pramana Rancang 37 Indrani Kar Confederation of Indian Industry 38 Ir. Heru D Wardana, M. Hort.Sc Martha Tilaar Group
39 Ivan Cahya Permana Telkomsel 40 Josef Dharmabrata Tranaco Utama 41 Josephine Satyono ABM Investama 42 K M Rezaul Hasanat VIYELLATEX Group 43 Kornel H. Soemardi Pertamina
44 Kusuma Adinugroho Total E&P Indonesie 45 Leimer Tejeda Global Compact Office
46 Lina Salim, S.E., MBA., M.A.,
Ph.D., CPM (A) Universitas Katolik Indonesia Atma Jaya 47 Maria R. Nindita Radyati, PhD. CECT-Trisakti
48 Mana D. Nurani ISSP Indonesia
49 Marianne Nyaruita Mwaniki Standard Chatered Bank London 50 Marina L Pandin Bank Negara Indonesia
51 Mark Wong Joon Lai Sime Darby Berhad
52 Matius Ho Institut Leimena
53 Matthew Coghlan AUSAID
54 Matthew Gitsham Ashridge Business School
55 Matthew Tukaki The Sustain Group (GCN Australia) 56 Maurits Lalisang Unilever Indonesia
57 Maya D. Tanama ExecuTrain Nusantarajaya 58 Melissa Powell Global Compact Office 59 Michael Thatcher Microsoft
60 Michael C.N.C.G. Putra Shell Upstream Indonesia Services B.V. 61 Muhammad Awaluddin Telekomunikasi Indonesia
62 Nancy Martasuta Bank Negara Indonesia 63 Noke Kiroyan Kiroyan Partners
64 Nuning S. Barwa IGCN/Martha Tilaar Group 65 Parmaningsih Hadinegoro Danone Indonesia
66 Peter Chambers Rajawali Corpora
No. Name Company/Institution 68 Prof. Dr. Henry A. Rudolf Tilaar Martha Tilaar Group 69 Ratna Tanubrata Express Transindo Utama 70 Ronny Liyanto CPM (AP) Insera Sena (Polygon) 71 Rosdinal Salim Sarana Karya Bakti
72 Shadia Bakhait UNIDO Representative Indonesia 73 Sakariza Qory Hemawan Bank Negara Indonesia
74 Samantha Morshed Hathay Bunano 75 Sancoyo Antarikso Unilever Indonesia 76 Sean Charles Cruse Global Compact Office
77 Shahamin Sahadat Zaman CSR Centre (GCN Bangladesh) 78 Shinta Widjaja Kamdani Sintesa Group
79 Sinta Kaniawati IGCN/Unilever Indonesia
80 Siti Adiningsih Adiwoso Green Building Council Indonesia 81 Stevie Adryanto DSM Nutritional Products
82 Suhendra Wiriadinata Tjiwi Kimia Pulp & Paper
83 Susan Myers UN Foundation
84 Syed Kabeer Abbas Naqvi Tameer Microfinance Bank 85 Tambok P. Setyawati. Bank Negara Indonesia 86 Tamiko Balton FTI Consulting
87 Teresa Christina Fogelberg Global Reporting Initiative 88 Thomas Giles Lingard Unilever
89 Timotheus Lesmana IGCN/Asia Pulp and Paper Group 90 Tino Ardhyanto Abdul Rachman Indika Energy
91 Tiur Rumondang Indonesian Business Council for Sustainable Development
92 Tri mumpuni Iskandar Institut Bisnis dan Ekonomi Kerakyatan (IBEKA)
93 Uddesh Kumar Kohli Contruction Industry Development Council (GCN India)
94 Widjajanti Puspojudo Telkomsel
95 Wilson Siahaan Asia Pulp and Paper Group
96 Yahya Msangi International Trade Union Confederation - Africa 97 Ynse Andries de Boer Accenture
98 Yudi Riyadi Samudera Indonesia 99 Y.W. Junardy IGCN/Rajawali Corpora
Communiqué
Meeting of the High-Level Panel of Eminent Persons on the Post-2015 Development Agenda
in Bali, Indonesia, 27 March 2013
We, members of the High-Level Panel commissioned by the United Nations Secretary-General to recommend an ambitious yet achievable framework for the orld’s post-2015 development agenda, met in Bali, Indonesia from 25 to 27 March 2013. We discussed how to build a global partnership and means of implementation for our development agenda.
We highly value the importance of an open, transparent and inclusive process. We seek to promote global ownership of a shared development agenda. We have therefore consulted with a range of stakeholders prior to and during our meeting in Bali on a range of development issues. We heard reports from women, youth and the informal sector, from parliamentarians and other elected representatives, the initial findings of national, regional and thematic consultations conducted by civil society, academia, the UN, national governments, the private sector, and other stakeholders. We welcome the richness and depth they have brought to the process and are committed to continuing broad consultations and to find ways of reflecting the priorities that we have heard.
At this eek’s meeting, we agreed on the need for a renewed Global Partnership that enables a transformative, people-centred and planet-sensitive development agenda which is realized through the equal partnership of all stakeholders. Such partnership is based on the principles of equity, sustainability, solidarity, respect for humanity and shared responsibilities in accordance with respective capabilities. Our vision is to end extreme poverty in all its forms in the context of sustainable development and to have in place the building blocks of sustained prosperity for all.
Reshaped and revitalized global governance and partnerships. The challenges of our globalized world are becoming more complex and cross-cutting in nature, while stakeholders become more diverse and play more roles. Our approach to address such challenges should be universally applicable while at the same time implementable at the national, sub-national, community and individual levels. We therefore need to strengthen global governance to ensure it is fit for purpose, avoid overlap and the duplication of efforts, and encourage joint work to address cross-cutting issues. This includes ensuring that the United Nations, multilateral systems, and all development actors effectively support the post-2015 development agenda, using a full array of technical exchange, trade, migration, investment and other instruments to strengthen societies and protect human rights. Enhanced and scaled up models of cooperation among all levels of governments, the private sector, and civil society at global, regional, national, and sub-national levels will be needed. The wealth of experience from the Millennium Development Goals should be a reference for our effort to help shape global governance and responsive partnerships.
Protection of the global environment. Our people-centered and planet-sensitive post-2015 agenda will need to be grounded in a commitment to address global environmental challenges, strengthen resilience and improve disaster preparedness capacities. A more stable climate, clean atmosphere, and healthy and productive forests and oceans are just some of the environmental resources from which we all benefit. People living in poverty have been hardest hit by the degradation of the global environment. We have considered where the post-2015 development framework should help address environmental challenges by promoting global cooperation in line with each ou try’s level of capacity and responsibility to act.
Strengthened means of implementation. We agreed that a post-2015 agenda should clearly specify the means of implementation including financing for development. A greater commitment to improving and using country systems as well as global system in this regard is particularly important. Ownership at all levels is crucial. Adequate, stable and predictable financing, as well as efficient use of resources, is required to support development. This will require honoring international, regional, and national financing commitments, enhancing domestic resource mobilization, and multiple complementary and innovative sources of finance -- such as debt swaps, private investment, corporate social responsibility, philanthropy, North-South, South-South and triangular cooperation, public private partnerships, guarantee and market mechanisms. Particularly important will be the regulation of tax havens and illicit financial flows. Enhanced knowledge sharing, capacity building, technology transfer, data collection and trade will also be key.
Data availability and better accountability in measuring progress. We need a data revolution. Too often, development efforts have been hampered by a lack of the most basic data about the social and economic circumstances in which people live. Substantial improvements in national and sub-national statistical systems including local and sub-national levels and the availability, quality and timeliness of baseline data, disaggregated by sex, age, region and other variables, will be needed. Stronger monitoring and evaluation at all levels, and in all processes of development (from planning to implementation) will help guide decision making, update priorities and ensure accountability. This will require substantial investments in building capacity in advance of 2015. A regularly updated registry of commitments is one idea to ensure accountability and monitor delivery gaps. We must also take advantage of new technologies and access to open data for all people.
Following this meeting in Bali, the Panel will begin to draft a final report. We are grateful to those who have provided insights and inputs through meetings, consultations, and other submissions. We will strive to ensure that the report, to be submitted to the Secretary General at the end of May 2013, responds to the aspirations, concerns and interests and is consistent with the commitments of all countries and stakeholders. We also hope that the Pa el’s work will promote a single and coherent post-2015 development agenda.
