1. Kathy Calvin Executive Vice President UN Foundation
How corporate philanthropy can contribute to advancing the Millennium Development Goals Presentation at ECOSOC Chamber Monday, February 25, 2008 New York
Kathy Calvin
Executive Vice President
UN Foundation

2. Partnership Functions
Advocacy – Promote a cause or place an issue on policy agenda
Operational – Provide project support, resource mobilization and service delivery to meet discrete needs
Capacity Building - Develop skills, institutional means and resource bases for sustainable problem-solving
Normative – Norms/standards setting and diffusion
Joint Regulation - Bridge governance gaps; overcome governance failures

3. Institutional Challenges for UN partnerships
Some UN entities lack formal mechanisms to identify or select suitable partners
PPPs can be better integrated into UN entities’ core programs
Managing PPPs faces significant bureaucratic, budgetary and “cultural” obstacles in UN, especially at country levels
There is no system-wide policy for PPPs, nor is there a process to disseminate lessons learned