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September 24, 2013 By admin

Post 2015 – CEOs make ‘business case’ for development

Planning for the post-2015 development agenda — which will officially kick off next week in New York during the U.N. General Assembly meetings — is expected to feature an aspect the expiring Millennium Development Goals did not in their infancy: vocal leadership from the private sector.

(Follow our complete coverage of UNGC, UNGA, CGI and the Social Good Summit through our New York #GlobalDev Week portal.)

Still, some business leaders are wondering, as the post-2015 planning process moves forward from public discussions to inter-governmental decisions — when, how and where will the private sector be asked to participate?

Business leaders got an early start on this on Thursday with a pre-assembly conference organized by the U.N. Global Compact, which calls itself “the world’s largest corporate sustainability movement,” boasting 8,000 corporate signatories, 1,425 of whom joined the movement in 2012.

To read the rest of the article in full visit Devex Impact here.

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