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Putting Partnerships to Work
Michael Warner
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This text shares practical experiences in establishing and implementing partnerships for development between business, government and civil society. The focus is on the oil, gas and mining industries, who increasingly operate in regions characterized by poor communities and fragile environments.
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Greenleaf Publishing United Kingdom
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Saltaire, United Kingdom
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About Michael Warner
Dr Michael Warner is a Research Fellow with the Overseas Development Institute (ODI), London. For three years he managed the Secretariat of the Natural Resources Cluster (covering the oil, gas and mining sectors) for the World Bank's Business Partners for Development programme. In this role he acted as the broker or advisor of multi-sector partnerships involving RPG in India, Shell ... Read morein Nigeria, BP in Colombia, Anglo American in Zambia and Placer Dome in Venezuela. Michael has a PhD in Environmental Management from Imperial College, University of London and worked for a number of years in developing countries as a consultant with Environmental Resources Management, London. In the mid-1990s he joined the ODI, specialising in the adaptation of interest-based negotiation to resolve disputes and develop partnerships between communities, business, governments and NGOs. He now manages a new programme at ODI to improve the social and economic performance of corporate investment in developing countries. Michael is the author of Complex Problems ... Negotiated Solutions (ITDG Publishing, 2001) and of a novella on the art of partnership broking, The New Broker: Brokering Partnerships for Development (ODI, 2003). He is also Director of the consultancy company Sustainable Negotiation Services International (SNSi) Limited. Dr Rory Sullivan has been Director, Investor Responsibility with Insight Investment (the asset management arm of HBOS plc) since October 2002. In this role, he is responsible for leading Insight's engagement activities relating to climate change, human rights, and corporate social responsibility. He also contributes to Insight's broader work on corporate governance. Rory has 15 years' experience in environmental management and public policy, having worked for the private sector and government agencies in Australia, South-East Asia, Africa and Europe. His experience includes evaluating development-focused partnerships (health, education, water) on behalf of the World Bank's Business Partners for Development programme, advising Environment Australia and the OECD on the design of pollution release and transfer registers, and assisting public- and private-sector organisations with the implementation of environmental and risk management systems. Rory is the author (with Hugh Wyndham) of Effective Environmental Management: Principles and Case Studies (Allen & Unwin, 2001), and the editor of Business and Human Rights: Dilemmas and Solutions (Greenleaf Publishing, 2003). He has written over 100 articles, book chapters and papers on human rights, environmental policy and development issues. He is also co-editor of Responsible Investment (2006). Rory holds a first-class honours degree in electrical engineering (University College Cork, Ireland), masters' degrees in Environmental Science (University of Manchester, UK) and Environmental Law (University of Sydney, Australia), and a PhD in Law (Queen Mary, University of London, UK). Show Less
Reviews for Putting Partnerships to Work
This book helps substantially in clarifying the partnership idea. It focuses on partnerships in which business and industry have a leading role. This is a book for everyone who is interested in the follow-up of the WSSD: companies, social partnerships, governments and NGOs. Even more widely, this is a book for all those who are concerned about making the reduction ... Read moreof poverty a reality. - International Journal of Environment and Pollution, 5 September 2006 One of the most definitive studies on partnerships to date ... Lots has been said about the benefits of partnerships over corporates going it alone, but rarely is this accepted wisdom fleshed out. - Corporate Citizen Briefing, June/July 2004 ... an extraordinary account of four years of very significant work in partnerships and is without doubt an enormously important contribution to developing literature in this field. - The Corporate Citizen Vol. 4 Issue 2 (2004) This excellent book ... has brought, to development literature and development practitioners, a rich and textured source of practical information and advice on how to put effective partnerships together. It provides direction on necessary conditions for effective partnerships, how to make partnerships thrive, the key pitfalls to avoid, and the the ways to monitor the partnership during development and implementation. For those in the private sector, government and civil society who are trying to address poverty and development challenges, this book is an exceptional business and development tool. - Journal of Environmental Assessment Policy and Management Vol. 7 No. 1 (March 2005) Putting Partnerships to Work is about how partnerships work, the types of outcomes that can be achieved, and the necessary conditions for partnerships to be successful. - UNEP Industry and Environment, October-December 2004 Show Less