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Stakeholder
Citizenship and the Health Sector
Workshop,
New York, 2./3. February 2002
Partners:
Stakeholder Forum for Our Common Future; Novartis
International AG; Novo
Nordisk A/S;
Society for Participatory
Research in Asia (PRIA); World Information Transfer
(WIT)
Partners
Approached: World Health Organisation (WHO); Global Reporting Initiative
(GRI)
Further
Support From: BP Amoco plc; RMC
Group
Context
Corporations,
NGOs, intergovernmental bodies and others have been developing innovative
strategies to tackle urgent issues such as equitable access to health and to
other basic needs; increasing transparency and accountability of their
operations; and developing partnerships amongst themselves. However, many of
these efforts fail to be replicated, many problems remain unsolved, and there is
no coherent framework of 'stakeholder citizenship'.
Ten
years after the Rio Earth Summit, the World Summit on Sustainable Development
will take place in Johannesburg in September 2002. Many stakeholders are seeking
to engage in exchange and learn from their respective experiences with the
challenges of sustainable development. They are also seeking to identify more
clearly their roles and options within sustainable development and to become
more pro-active in addressing emerging and possibly contentious issues.
The
planned workshop, organised by a group of partner organisations, intends to
bring together representatives of corporations, NGOs, intergovernmental bodies
and other stakeholders. The meeting will focus on the health sector, and
mechanisms of stakeholder responsibility / transparency / accountability. It
will feed into the preparations for Stakeholder Forum's
Implementation Conference (Johannesburg, August 2002), and into the official
Summit preparatory process.
Vision
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All
stakeholders taking their role in making sustainable development a reality
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Goals
To
explore a set of high priority questions in the areas of health and
corporate / stakeholder citizenship that can be addressed through
collaborative stakeholder action.
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Identify
good practice and learning from experiences
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Increase
understanding of stakeholders' roles in sustainable development, and their
limitations
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Increase
understanding of incentives for and barriers towards stakeholder action and
stakeholder collaboration, their short and long term gains
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Identify
/ prioritise urgent and emerging issues, particularly in relation to
health and sustainable development and those that require (joint)
stakeholder action
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Identify
areas of possible collaboration
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Critical
Outcomes
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Responsibilities
of stakeholders are better defined, including areas of overlap.
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Stakeholders
have learnt more about each others' understanding of and experiences with
collaborative action, based on real world examples.
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Stakeholders
increase their understanding of their respective concerns and interests,
including aspects of accountability and transparency.
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A
relevant subset of critical parameters for sustainable development in health
care is identified.
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A
number of emerging and urgent issues in relation to health and sustainable
development are identified.
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Workshop
Report
Participants
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Stakeholder
representatives, such as: corporations; NGOs; trade unions; indigenous
peoples; media; women's groups; etc.
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Intergovernmental
bodies
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International
multi-stakeholder initiatives
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Agenda
Preparatory
& Follow-Up Activities
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Identify
participants through consultations with partners and within the broader
stakeholder community
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Identify
possible speakers for the plenary sessions; professional facilitators;
rapporteurs for break-out groups
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Prepare
background document on existing
examples of activities and programmes, such as:
differentiated pricing mechanisms within the health sector; benefit-sharing
arrangements between corporations and local communities; stakeholder
activities on corporate accountability; reporting
mechanisms; collaboration models.
This shall be put together by Stakeholder Forum, based on interviews with partners and potential
participants; relevant publications;
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Prepare
'Non Paper No 1' on emerging issues in
the health sector.
Andreas Seiter (Novartis), in cooperation with Stakeholder Forum, produced a
starter paper of thoughts, suggestions, questions (Nov / Dec 2001). This is
being sent to partners and possible participants for comments and interviews
over the phone (Dec 2001 / Jan 2002). Comments and amendments are being
incorporated, producing a rolling 'Non Paper' the last version of which be sent to participants 10 days before the
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Prepare
'Non Paper No 2' on emerging issues
of corporate / stakeholder citizenship.
Robert Whitfield (Stakeholder Forum), in cooperation with Stakeholder Forum board members,
produced a starter paper of thoughts, suggestions, questions (Nov / Dec 2001).
This is being sent to partners and possible participants for comments and
interviews over the phone (Dec 2001 / Jan 2002). Comments and amendment are
being incorporated, producing a rolling 'Non Paper' (including
diverse views), the last version of which be sent to participants 10 days
before the event.
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Prepare
a workshop report with all documents, presentations, outcomes (summary for printed
format; complete coverage for CD ROM format; including interviews with
participants)
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Feed results into the official Summit process (via PrepComm
II side event;
circulating outcome document; articles in Network 2002; website; lobbying); |
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Feed results into the Implementation Conference preparations,
as starters
for the strands on "Public Health & HIV/AIDS" and "Corporate
/ Stakeholder Citizenship" |
Staff
at Stakeholder Forum / Implementation Conference team:
Co-ordinators:
Minu
Hemmati & Robert Whitfield
Lead
facilitator: Nigel Gibbs
Issue
coordinator / logistics: Gordon Baker (gbaker@earthsummit2002.org),
Tel +44 20 7839 7171
Tel / international mobile
+44 7881 626 553
Venue
BP - New York
535 Madison Avenue
New York,
NY
10022-4212
USA
Partners
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