Building Partnerships: Cooperation between the United Nations System and the Private Sector

Within the context of clear regulatory frameworks and effective market mechanisms the private sector can offer new ideas, technologies and approaches to help governments tackle global challenges such as access to water, energy, capital and information technology, malnutrition, illiteracy, tackling disease, conflict and environmental degradation. This publication provides the most comprehensive overview to date of co-operation between the United Nations system and the business community aimed at addressing these challenges, including over 150 examples from around the world. The book highlights both obstacles and opportunities and it makes the case that, despite the obstacles, partnerships between the UN system, governments, business and civil society organizations offer one of our greatest hopes for meeting the global challenges of the 21st century. [UN website]Nelson, Jane is the author of 'Building Partnerships: Cooperation between the United Nations System and the Private Sector', published 2002 under ISBN 9789211008906 and ISBN 9211008905.