<strong>World</strong> <strong>Economic</strong> <strong>Forum</strong> <strong>Annual</strong> <strong>Report</strong> <strong>2006</strong>/<strong>2007</strong> 26BuildingpublicprivatepartnershipscontinuedGHI, each company joined forces with some of itssuppliers in Africa to reach approximately 50,000people with lifesaving HIV/AIDS awareness,prevention and treatment-intervention programmes.In India, Reliance Industries, Aditya Birla, JubilantOrganosys and Eli Lilly joined the India BusinessAlliance to Stop TB (IBA). In a classic exampleof public–private partnership in action, thesecompanies worked with the <strong>World</strong> HealthOrganization, the Global Partnership to Stop TBand India’s Ministry of Health to help the IBA reacha total of 4 million people with a combination ofworkplace and community programmes.The China Health Alliance (CHA) saw Adidas,Standard Chartered Bank, Swire Beveragesand Pfizer work with the UN and the ChineseGovernment on tackling HIV/AIDS andtuberculosis. Launched in September <strong>2006</strong>,the CHA commits to providing advocacy andeducation on these diseases and access totesting and treatment to employees of engagedcompanies and a select number of their suppliers,with a special emphasis on migrant workers.Up to 5 million people could be reached at fullscale-up if all engaged companies and theirsuppliers reach all of their employees, includingtheir families and dependants.The <strong>World</strong> <strong>Economic</strong> <strong>Forum</strong>’s meetings playan influential role as one of the world’s mosteffective sensing systems for future trends anddevelopments. The <strong>World</strong> <strong>Economic</strong> <strong>Forum</strong>also has a proven record for enabling andfacilitating the dialogue between the West andthe Islamic world across countries, religionsand ideologies. I am deeply concernedabout the potential business implications ofthe conflicts in the Middle East. Globalizedconflicts may disrupt global capitalism. But inthe long run, I hope that capitalism will proveto be the more convincing choice.Hans-Paul BürknerPresident and CEO, The Boston ConsultingGroup, Germany
<strong>World</strong> <strong>Economic</strong> <strong>Forum</strong> <strong>Annual</strong> <strong>Report</strong> <strong>2006</strong>/<strong>2007</strong> 27June <strong>2006</strong> brought the launch of a GHI white papercalled From Funding to Action: StrengtheningHealthcare Systems in Sub-Saharan Africa, the firstof its kind to highlight the potential role of businessin this area. The GHI is currently working inpartnership with Merck & Co., Becton Dickinson,Sudler & Hennessey, Accenture, AMREF andUNAIDS to develop a project that will demonstratethe report’s findings in practice.Global Education InitiativeEducation is vital to the continued developmentand improvement of global communities. Theonly way to achieve this successfully is to bringbusiness, government and social groups togetherthrough multistakeholder partnerships to helpdeliver education initiatives and reforms.The number of strategic partners supportingthe <strong>Forum</strong>’s Global Education Initiative (GEI)has doubled over the past year and now includesglobally recognized names such as AMD, Cisco,Goldman Sachs, HP, Intel and Microsoft.In <strong>2006</strong> we launched the Partnerships forEducation (PfE), which focuses on engagingkey education leaders around the world inunderstanding, sharing and promoting the role ofPublic–Private Partnerships (PPPs) in education ona global scale. In this regard, a formal partnershipwith UNESCO was signed in January <strong>2007</strong> andrelated work is ongoing with the internationaldevelopment and bilateral donor community.Our country-specific activities continued to makeprogress in Jordan, India and Egypt. Significantly, inNovember <strong>2006</strong>, we handed over formalmanagement of the Jordan Education Initiative (JEI)– which supports students and trains teachers inthe public education system – to the country’sgovernment, three years after its launch, asscheduled. We now expect the JEI to continue itssuccess in developing PPP education models,under the leadership of HM Queen Rania of Jordan.Water InitiativeThe <strong>Forum</strong> will publish the outcomes of its WaterInitiative by the end of this year. This will be theculmination of a three-year effort which has focusedon developing public–private partnerships in Indiaand South Africa.During this time, high-level multistakeholdernetworks for water have been set up in partnershipwith the New Partnership for Africa’s Development(NEPAD) Business Foundation in South Africa andwith the Confederation of Indian Industry in India.A series of innovative projects have been designedas a result, with very favourable reactions fromwater experts in the public, private anddevelopment sector communities.A new, high-level water project, with a focus onthe economics and politics of reforming waterpolicy for agriculture, has also begun this year.This has been championed by Nestlé and theCoca-Cola Company, together with expert waterand agriculture partners, such as the Food andAgriculture Organization, the Organization for<strong>Economic</strong> Co-operation and Development(OECD), Global Water Partnership and theInternational Water Management Institute.Other environmental InitiativesOther related environmental initiatives are alsounder way, with the explicit aim of ensuringthe <strong>Forum</strong>’s green activities are not focusedon climate change alone. These include workon biofuels, sustainable cities, tourism, andjoint industry-specific efforts with the aviation,IT and finance sectors.Disaster Resource NetworkWith thankfully few major catastrophes affectingthe world in <strong>2006</strong>, our Disaster Resource Network(DRN) was able to focus on building local capacityand the civil infrastructure dimensions of disasterresponse operations.In one such partnership, DRN-Mexico, togetherwith leaders from the country’s engineering andconstruction sectors, are currently working toincrease Mexico’s emergency response capabilities.DRN-Mexico has assembled a team of 60volunteers from organizations such as EmpresasICA SAB de CV (ICA), Marhnos, Siemens-Mexicoand Cámara Mexicana de la Industria de laConstrucción. ICA, which is a consortium ofMexican construction companies, will act as thecorporate lead sponsor of the initiative. The teamwill form the core of a pool of engineering andconstruction experts who, in the emergencyphase of a disaster, will conduct rapid-responseinfrastructure damage assessments.The volunteer members of Mexico’s EmergencyEngineering-Construction Team are expectedto complete their training and field exercisesin preparation for the launch of operations inearly 2008.www.drnglobal.orgCouncil of 100 Leaders:West-Islamic <strong>World</strong> Dialogue (C-100)The <strong>Forum</strong>’s C-100 community focused its effortson two key subjects. The first was ‘Discourse’,which aims to create deeper dialogue betweenthe West and the Islamic world. The second wasthe development of the ‘<strong>Annual</strong> <strong>Report</strong> on West-Islamic Dialogue’, which provides a reference pointfor faith, government, business, civil and academicleaders in identifying pressing issues.During the year, the <strong>Forum</strong>’s Religious Leaderscommunity was integrated into the C-100in meetings in Turkey, Davos and Jordan.Moreover, a C-100 session was organized atthe <strong>Annual</strong> Meeting <strong>2007</strong> on ‘Rules for a GlobalNeighbourhood in a Multicultural <strong>World</strong>’, inwhich leaders from religion, education andgovernment agreed that politics was failingto find solutions for the compelling issuesconfronting peace and democracy.
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