Alliance Magazine September 2005
Contents

NEWS AND CONFERENCES

  • EFC conference focuses on development 2
  • Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust’s new ‘Visionaries’ programme 3
  • European Venture Philanthropy Association holds first conference 4
  • ‘Hand over the keys to the Toyota’ – comment by Nick Cater 5
  • Spotlight on Business in Kyrgyzstan 6
  • Asian Foundation for Philanthropy launched in UK 7
  • Slovak-Czech women’s fund now one year old 8

ARTICLES

Horizontal Philanthropy (2)
Susan Wilkinson-Maposa and Alan Fowler look at when poor people help each other and why 8

Financing the ‘missing middle’
Mary Ellen Iskenderian describes the International Finance Corporation’s work in bringing finance to micro-, small and medium enterprises in Bangladesh and Afghanistan 11

FOCUS ON … ACHIEVING THE MILLENNIUM DEVELOPMENT GOALS – BUSINESS AS UNUSUAL

The guest editor for this Alliance special feature is:
Salil Shetty, Director of the UN Millennium Campaign

Galvanizing global civic action against poverty (html)
Salil Shetty argues that the MDGs do represent a unique compact between rich and poor country governments. Now it’s up to all of us to make sure they are achieved 13

Interview
Ezra Mbogori talks about the significance of the MDGs in restarting the development process 17

Interview (html)
Jeffrey Sachs on what will be needed to meet the MDGs 20

Case study
UN Fund for International Partnerships 22

Interview
Rien van Gendt considers how foundations can contribute to the MDGs 24

Working for rights from the grassroots
Diana Mitlin and Sheela Patel on why the rights-based approach to development is not always the answer 27

Meeting the MDGs in urban areas
David Satterthwaite looks at the key role of local organizations if the MDGs are to be met in urban areas 29

Case study
World Economic Forum 31

Interview
Mary Robinson and Heather Grady talk about the work of the Ethical Global Initiative and the role of the private sector in achieving the MDGs 33

Case study
BOND (British Overseas NGOs for Development) 35

Millennium Development what?
How much notice do individual donors take of the MDGs? Alliance talked to a number of advisers who work with them to find out 36

Case study
International Business Leaders Forum 39

Interview
Peggy Antrobus tells how she initially dismissed the MDGs, but now believes that, with the right local conditions, much can be achieved through them 41

Fair Trade: Can it really change the world?
Alex Nicholls argues that the real importance of Fair Trade is the way it links consumers with activists 44

Case study
Philippine Business for Social Progress 45

Case study
The Ethos Institute 47

All roads lead to BOP
Jeb Brugmann suggests that the business and third sectors are getting closer in their views and methods, and this will have important implications for meeting the MDGs 48

Case study
UNDP’s Growing Sustainable Business Initiative 50

Interview
Tex Gunning explains why business has no choice but to engage with poverty eradication and environmental sustainability 52

Case study
UN Foundation 55

Is aid the answer?
Demba Moussa Dembele doesn’t think so, seeing development aid as neither value-free nor benevolent 57

From Alliance, Vol 10, No 3, September 2005

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