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Este documento presenta una guía bajo la experiencia del Consejo Empresarial Mundial para el Desarrollo Sostenible para aquellas empresas que buscan hacer negocio con los pobres. Esto lo hace a través de los aprendizajes de 12 empresas internacionales y una serie de preguntar para orientar el trabajo de las empresas.

This report suggests a conceptual framework on ways through which companies can support social entrepreneurship. It focuses on: (1) a company’s core business operations in the workplace, marketplace and along the value chain; (2) its social investment and strategic philanthropy activities; and (3) its engagement in public policy dialogue, advocacy and institution building. It outlines the ‘business case’ on how alliances can help companies meet their business goals, and offers a set of recommendations for business leaders, social entrepreneurs, foundations and governments on how they can work together to increase the scale and effectiveness of these alliances for mutual benefit.

This journal covers different topics of microfinance and microenterprises. It contains articles on sources of microfinance, best practices of microfinance institutes and on the role of the public sector and commercial banks in supporting micro entrepreneurs from the base of the pyramid. It highlights how the poor can access the markets with a special focus on public procurement markets, the development of associations and partnerships and on value chains and linkages.

This report suggests a conceptual framework on the contribution of business to development - it focuses on three corporate ‘spheres of influence’: (1) a company’s core business operations in the workplace, marketplace and along the value chain; (2) its social investment and strategic philanthropy activities; and (3) its engagement in public policy dialogue, advocacy and institution building. It provides recommendations and a set of six strategies that companies can apply to protect and/or build both market value and social value.

This report explores six interconnected challenges that are of particular concern for business as they further affect the integrity of ecosystems and their capacity to provide services: water scarcity, climate change, habitat change, biodiversity loss and invasive species, overexploitation of oceans, and nutrient overloading. It discusses their implications for businesses and provides examples of corporate responses.

This report provides an overview of Vietnam’s political economy, the growing importance of the country’s private sector, and the enabling environment for small enterprise development and corporate social responsibility. It illustrates two multi-sector partnerships: the Vietnam Business Links Initiative (VBLI) and the Vietnam Cleaner Production Centre (VNCPC), that both aim to address core obstacles to small enterprise development and pro-poor industrialisation in developing countries.

This paper explores how Rio Tinto, a multinational metals and mining corporation has adopted cross-sector partnering as a key approach to building a sustainable and successful company through a community engagement programme that utilises strategic partnerships with NGOs and other organisations.

This presentation points out the inequality in many Brazilian states and gives an overview of measures and programmes of the Brazilian Federal Government. Further it gives a brief insight into different public private partnership projects.