Highlights

General Introduction of Public-Private Partnerships

Public-Private Partnerships (PPP) are a form of cooperation between the public and the private sector. PPPs are voluntary partnership projects in which partners commit resources to provide a public service or project while sharing the financial, technical and operational benefits and risks. More information on the PPP concept, including an overview of integrated PPPs and the PPP facility, is available at www.giz.de and www.developpp.de. 

Sino-German CSR Project PPPs

1. CSR Strategy Development and Implementation in Chinese Enterprises
   
   The CSR Strategy Development and Implementation in Chinese Enterprises PPP project was implemented the CSR Project, enterprises, government and organisations from Hebei and Zhejiang province.
   
   The objective of the PPP was to cooperate on the development and implementation of a systematic approach to CSR to manage CSR-relevant issues in 15 participating Chinese enterprises, including 8 from Hebei province (Nov. 2008 to Dec. 2009) and 17 from Zhejiang province (May 2009 to Dec.2011). The PPP contributed to improvements to the social and environmental performance of all of the participating enterprises, and increased the overall competitiveness in national and international markets. Participating enterprises were also capacitated to continuously improve on CSR-related aspects and to make meaningful contributions to sustainable development. The enterprises developed and implemented a CSR strategy and monitored and evaluated its implementation in order to make adjustments. This ensured that the enterprises were in a position to sustainably implement their strategies long after the PPP project had concluded. Input from the CSR Project includes the coordination activities, the organisation of needs-based training workshops (including CSR Fundamentals Training, CSR Management Training, network meetings, and consultancy on the development of a CSR strategy and implementation plan), as well an impact assessment one after the conclusion of the project. 
   
   Based on specific experiences made under the previous Sino-German Environmental Enterprise Consultancy Zhejiang Programme, and with support from the Zhejiang Solid Waste Management and Supervision Centre, the project in Zhejiang included a unique module that  focused on solid and hazardous waste management, addressing relevant aspects of material resource conservation and hazardous substance safety. The objectives were to understand the CSR principles underlying these subjects, to learn from international experiences, to conduct self-assessments that would help identify shortfalls and, eventually, to develop, implement and monitor action plans to improve enterprises’ performance in these areas. Interaction with the enterprises’ Environment, Health and Safety staff was done via training workshops, network meetings and need-based consultancy. Measures taken up by the companies included reducing input material consumption, substituting hazardous substances against less hazardous ones, enhancing worker’s safety by establishing easily readable, jargon-free workplace-specific instructions on hazardous substances, improving safety management of hazardous substances and hazardous waste, enhancing waste recycling by better segregation and exercising duty of care for downstream utilisation and disposal of hazardous waste.
   
    
2. Adidas/GIZ- Migrant Worker Capacity Building and Better Factory Pilot Project:
   
   The Migrant Worker Capacity Building and Better Factory pilot project was implemented by adidas (and two adidas supplier factories), the Foreign Capital Project Management Center State Council (FCPMC) Leading Group Office of Poverty Alleviation and Development, the Education Development Center, Inc., (EDC), four public training schools from Sichuan Province and the Sino-German CSR Project (Oct. 2008 to Nov. 2010).
   
   The primary objective of thePPP was to ensure just and fair recruitment processes for, and better treatment of migrant workers in factories in China, by building capacity at both the sources of worker migration and at their destination. The project directly and postively impacted productivity levels and turnover rates in the suppliers. The focus was on linking activities that prepare prospective workers, trained at the source of migration, for industrial working life with the recruitment and employment practices of the suppliers.
   
   Twenty workers who were trained at the training schools worked at an adidas supplier factory from Sep. to Dec. 2009. All the 20 workers were satisfied with the working environment in the factory and stated that they were willing to continue working at the factory. Moreover, factory management was satisfied with the performance of the trained workers. The PPPs 2010 activities focused on the development of a recruitment system and curriculum development for the training schools.
   
    
3. Tchibo/GIZ- Worldwide Enhancement of Social Quality Project
   
   The WE (Worldwide Enhancement of Social Quality, http://www.we-socialquality.com) pilot project was dedicated to the improvement of working conditions in Asian production facilities. The project featured an innovative to improving social standards, emphasising the need for effective in-house dialogue and workplace cooperation between managers and workers and provided a platform for exchange between retailers, importers and suppliers. The objective was to achieve significant progress regarding the working conditions in the participating Asian production facilities. In addition, it qualified and promoted local training organisations in order to establish a long-term training on social standards in the project countries. After the conclusion of the pilot phase, the qualification concept was opened to other trading companies and production facilities in order to scale-up the model.
   
   This PPP was initiated by the retailer Tchibo and the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH. It is co-financed by the German Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ).The project ran from September 2007 to August 2010 and was carried out with 40 suppliers in Bangladesh, China and Thailand manufacturing consumer goods such as textiles, kitchenware, jewellery and decorative articles. The CSR Project office supported the implementation of this innovative PPP in China.
   
    
4. Wessling/GIZ– Project on Remediation of Contaminated Soils and Groundwater in China
   
   The Remediation of Contaminated Soils and Groundwater in China project was implemented by DHC Consulting GmbH, WESSLING Beratende In-genieure GmbH, hereafter named “ARGE DHC/WBI”, and GIZ. The PPP ran from Nov. 2008 to Jun. 2010, with the CSR Project acting as a cooperation partner by co-organising activities, providing contacts to local and regional Chinese companies and authorities, particularly for urban planning.
   
   The goal of the project was to provide environmental authorities, industrial companies and companies of the waste sector in two pilot regions in China with knowledge in environmental risk assessment, remediation of contaminated sites and brownfield reactivation and to have access to trainings and consulting on brownfield reactivation, waste management and procuring environmental protection. To achieve the objective, trainings and information meetings were prepared and held for members of Chinese environmental authorities and waste management companies in Zhejiang Province and the city of Jiangsu. Trainers were also trained to educate additional authorities, waste management companies and industrial companies. In order to better understand the complexity of the topic and all applicable assessment and a remediation plan at a concrete site in each of the participating provinces. 
   
    
5. DVSI, ICTI/GIZ- Factory worker education and capacity development for the Chinese toy industry
   
   The Factory Worker Education and Capacity Development for the Chinese Toy Industry project is an ongoing partnership project between German Toy Association (DVSI), the International Council of Toy Industries (ICTI) and GIZ to improve occupational health, safety and working conditions as well as the product safety in the toy manufacturing industry in China. The project is co-financed by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) . It started in January 2010 and  will end in January 2012.
   
   The project aims to achieve an improvement in the conditions of working and product manufacturing, from which factories and employees will benefit permanently. In the first stage, the project will focus on improving the access to information, training and support about compliance with existent Chinese legislation and international standards about health, workplace safety and labour. In the second stage, the project will intensively focus on a cooperation to improve the product safety of the Chinese toy industry.
   
    
6. Arcandor/GIZ - HIV/AIDS and Tuberculosis Workplace Project
   
   This PPP project began in 2008 and was scheduled to end in 2010 but had to conclude prematurely in 2009 due to the insolvency of Arcandor.
   
   The PPP was a cooperation between Arcandor AG, the Global Health Initiative, and GIZ, and aimed at raising awareness on HIV/AIDS and Tuberculosis (TB) prevention among workers in Corporate Service Groups (CSG) supply companies in China (CSG is an Arcandor daughter company). In order to achieve this aim, the HIV/AIDS and TB WorkPlace Project (WPP) focusing on education and awareness creation was developed and implemented in four companies that operate along the CSG's supply chain in China. Local partner NGOs were also trained to train peer educators in the four companies, who in turn were to raise the awareness among the companies' staff on methods of HIV/AIDS and TB transmission and prevention. In order to increase the outreach of the WPP, and encourage and enable other organisations to implement their own WPP, the training materials and the workplace policies along with guidelines were compiled into a training package and made available to other suppliers of CSG, local NGOs or private sector companies. This was complemented by stakeholder workshops and media coverage.