General Introduction of the PPP concept
Public-Private Partnerships (PPP) are one form of cooperation between the Public and the Private Sector. They are voluntary, joint projects in which both partners commit resources, bring in their competencies and share the benefits and risks. More information on PPP is available at www.gtz.de and www.developpp.de.
There are two categories of PPPs: Integrated PPP or PPP Facility:
- Integrated PPP:
Integrated PPP are projects between multinational, regional or local companies and programmes in the form of bilateral, international development cooperation carried out by GTZ in the partner country. These PPP projects directly help achieve the objectives of bilateral development programmes. The GTZ programme/project is responsible for initiating, implementing and monitoring measures in the field whilst costs and risks are shouldered jointly. The fact that the private sector partners aim for long-term profits serves to enhance the sustainability of bilateral development programmes. The Sino-German CSR Project currently supports several PPP projects with both Chinese and foreign private sector partners.
- PPP Facility:
Projects supported through the PPP Facility are prepared and designed by GTZ’s Center for Cooperation with the private sector, PPP Office in Germany and implemented worldwide by the private partners in cooperation with GTZ. The funding for the public contribution comes from the PPP Facility, a fund established by the German Federal Government and administered by the German Ministry of Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) specifically for the development of public-private cooperation. Although PPP Facility is administered and imple-mented independently, the Sino-German CSR Project often plays a supporting role for projects with CSR relevance in China. Currently, the Sino-German CSR Project provides support to various PPP Facility projects.
Specific information on PPP Projects within the Sino-German CSR Project
- Chinese enterprises/GTZ PPP - CSR Strategy Development and Implementation in Chinese Enterprises
The project is a cooperation between enterprises, government organisations from Hebei and Zhejiang Province, and the Sino-German CSR Project.
The main objective is to cooperate on the development and implementation of a CSR concept and a systematic approach to manage CSR-relevant issues in the fifteen participating Chinese enterprises, out of which eight are from Hebei Province (November 2008-December 2009) and seven from Zhejiang Province (May 2009-April 2010). This is expected to contribute to im-provements of the enterprise’s social and environmental performance, and hence, to increase the enterprise’s competitiveness in national and international markets. Moreover, the partici-pating enterprises will be capacitated by the project to continuously improve on CSR-related aspects thus realising sustainable development. By the end of the project, the participating enterprises should have developed and started implementing a CSR strategy. Moreover, they should have also developed the ability to monitor and evaluate the implementation of that strategy, and to adjust it accordingly. The latter is important to ensure that the enterprises are in a position to continue implementing their strategies in a sustainable manner after conclusion of the PPP project. Input from the Sino-German CSR Project includes the coordination, organisation of need-based training workshops such as the CSR Fundamentals Training, the CSR Management Training, network meetings, and the consultancy on the development of a CSR strategy and implementation plan in the beginning of the project, as well as the review and monitoring consultancy after around one year implementation. The pilot enterprises shall assign resources accordingly, develop a company-level CSR policy and implement it.
Based on specific experiences made under the previous Sino-German Environmental Enter-prise Consultancy Zhejiang Programme, and with support from the Zhejiang Solid Waste Management and Supervision Centre, the project in Zhejiang includes additionally a unique module focusing on solid and hazardous waste management and addressing also relevant aspects of material resource conservation and hazardous substance safety. Objectives are to understand the CSR principles underlying these subjects, to learn from international prac-tice-oriented experience, to conduct self-assessments for identifying shortfalls and eventually to develop, implement and monitor action plans aiming to improve enterprises’ performance in these areas. Interaction with the enterprises’ Environment, Health and Safety staff participating in this module is materialised via training workshops, network meetings for experience exchange and need-based consultancy. Measures taken up by the companies include e.g. reducing input material consumption, substituting hazardous substances against less hazardous ones, enhancing worker’s safety by establishing workplace-specific instructions with regards to hazardous substances written in a language understandable to workers, 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.
- Adidas/GTZ PPP - Migrant Worker Capacity Building and Better Factory Pilot Project:
The project is a cooperation between 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 (October 2008 to November 2010).
The primary objective of the project is 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 migration and at their destination. It is anticipated that this will have a direct and positive impact on productivity levels and turnover rates in the suppliers. The focus is on linking those activities which prepare prospective workers, trained at the source of migration, for in-dustrial working lives with the recruitment and employment practices of the suppliers.
By now, 20 workers trained at the training schools arrived for work at one adidas supplier factory from September to December 2009. All the 20 trained workers are satisfied with their working environment and willing to stay longer; and the factory management is satisfied with the trained workers’ performance. The main activities for 2010 will focus on the development of a recruitment system, and further TOT and curriculum development for the training schools.
- Tchibo/GTZ PPP - Worldwide Enhancement of Social Quality Project
The WE (Worldwide Enhancement of Social Quality, http://www.we-socialquality.com) Project is a pilot project dedicated to the improvement of working conditions in Asian production facilities. The project features an innovative approach towards improving social standards: It emphasises the need for effective in-house dialogue and workplace cooperation between managers and workers. Besides, it provides a platform for exchange between retailers, importers and suppliers. The project´s objective: to achieve significant progress regarding the working condi-tions in the participating Asian production facilities. In addition, it qualifies and promotes local training organizations in order to establish a long-term training offer on social standards in the project countries. After the end of the pilot phase, the qualification concept will be opened to other trading companies and production facilities in order to scale-up the reference model.
This Public-Private Partnership (PPP) was initiated by the retailer Tchibo and the developing agency Deutsche Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit (GTZ) GmbH. It is co-financed by the German Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ).The joint project runs from September 2007 to August 2010 and is currently being carried out with 40 suppliers in Bangladesh, China and Thailand manufacturing consumer goods such as textiles, kitchenware, jewellery and decorative articles. The Sino-German CSR Project office supports the im-plementation of this innovative Public-Private Partnership in China.
- Wessling/GTZ PPP – Project on Remediation of Contaminated Soils and Groundwater in China
The project is a cooperation between DHC Consulting GmbH, WESSLING Beratende In-genieure GmbH, hereafter named “ARGE DHC/WBI”, and GTZ on the issue of remediation of contaminated soils and groundwater in China (November 2008 to June 2010). The Sino-German CSR Project acts as a cooperation partner by co-organising activities, providing contacts to local and regional Chinese companies and authorities, especially for urban planning and the recruitment of participants for the seminars.
The general goal of the project is: “Environmental authorities, industrial companies and com-panies of the waste sector in two pilot regions in China have knowledge in environmental risk assessment, remediation of contaminated sites and brownfield reactivation and have access to trainings and consulting on brownfield reactivation, waste management and procuring envi-ronmental protection“.
To reach that goal, trainings and information meetings have been prepared and held for members of Chinese environmental authorities and waste management companies in the two neighbouring Zhejiang Province and Jiangsu City. In these two areas trainers were educated who will subsequently (also in the context of this PPP) be responsible to educate other people from other authorities, waste management companies and industrial companies. In order to better understand the complex topic and the methods that are to be applied, not only lectures and exercises were provided, but also a risk assessment and a remediation plan for a concrete site in each of the participating provinces were performed.
- DVSI, ICTI/GTZ PPP - Factory worker education and capacity development for the Chinese toy industry
The project is a cooperation between German Toy Association (DVSI), International Council of Toy Industries (ICTI) and GTZ 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 extend until January 2012.
The project aims to achieve an improvement in the conditions of working and product manu-facturing, from which factories and employees will benefit permanently. In a first stage, the project will focus in improving the access to information, training and support about compliance with existent Chinese legislation and international standards about health, workplace safety and labour. In a second stage, the project will intensively focus on a cooperation to improve the product safety of the Chinese toy industry.
- Arcandor/GTZ PPP - HIV/AIDS and Tuberculosis Workplace Project
The project began in 2008 and was to finish in 2010 but it had to end prematurely in 2009 due to the insolvency of Arcandor.
The project was a cooperation between Arcandor AG, the Global Health Initiative, and GTZ, aiming 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, 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 Non-Government Organisations was also trained to train peer educators in the four companies, who are in turn to raise the awareness of 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 organizations to implement their own WPP, the training materials and the workplace policies along with guidelines for their implementation 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.
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