UNDP’s Engagement with the Private Sector, 1994–2011

143 Pages·2014·5.064 MB·English

by  Zarlasht M. Razeq (auth.)

UNDP’s Engagement with the Private Sector,
1994–2011
DOI: 10.1057/9781137449207.0001
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DOI: 10.1057/9781137449207.0001
UNDP’s Engagement
with the Private Sector,
1994–2011
Zarlasht M. Razeq
DOI: 10.1057/9781137449207.0001
undp’s engagement with the private sector, 1994–2011
Copyright © Zarlasht Muhammad Razeq, 2014.
Foreword © Paul Alexander Haslam, 2014.
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DOI: 10.1057/9781137449207.0001
Contents
List of Figures vii
List of Tables viii
Foreword ix
Paul Alexander Haslam
Preface xi
Acronyms xiii
Introduction 1
1 International Organizations and the
Private Sector for Development 6
2 International Organizations and Policy
Innovation in the Theories of International
Relations 19
3 The United Nations Development
Programme and the Private Sector
for Development 40
4 Explaining the Causes of Policy
Innovation 81
Conclusions 104
Bibliography 110
The UN’s and UNDP’s Official Documents 120
Index 126
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List of Figures
1.1 Refining the process-tracing methodology 17
2.1 IOs in the process of development and
diffusion of CSR norms 28
2.2 Companies’ CSR agendas and the degree
of involvement in development 31
3.1 Member states’ voluntary contributions
towards the UNDP’s regular resources, 1994–2011
(million USD) 66
3.2 Types of inclusive business implemented
(percentage of total cases reviewed) 77
4.1 Modalities of intersubjectivity of CSR
and business’ role in sustainable
development 97
4.2 Change in the UNDP’s engagement with
the private sector for development 100
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List of Tables
2.1 Major global CSR initiatives with IOs’
involvement 29
2.2 Major CSR-driven partnership initiatives
by other IOs 33
2.3 Guiding reference points for
process tracing 37
3.1 The UN global compact principles and
the UNDP’s objectives 58
4.1 Revisiting the implication of the
theoretical framework 83
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Foreword
Although much ink has been spilled describing new forms
of collaboration between UN agencies and the private
sector since 2000, there has been no serious explanation
of how these changes occurred at the organizational level.
And yet this question has important theoretical implica-
tions, because it speaks to how international organizations
(IOs) generate preferences, learn, and internalize new
agendas.
These are the core empirical and theoretical questions
that Zarlasht M. Razeq addresses in her new book on
the changing relationship between the United Nations
Development Programme (UNDP) and the private sector
between 1994 and 2011. During this period, the UNDP
transformed itself from an organization relatively hostile
to multinational corporations, to one at the forefront of
a movement to encourage adherence to corporate social
responsibility (CSR) norms and standards as a way to
improve business impact on developing societies. In this
respect, Razeq’s examination of the ‘how’ and ‘why’ ques-
tions during this crucial period of change in one of UN’s
most influential ‘idea’ agencies makes a real contribution
to knowledge in the fields of international relations, inter-
national development, and policy studies.
Although the last twenty years saw increasing collabora-
tion between many IOs and the private sector, the UNDP
was a least likely case for adopting a pro-private sector
agenda, due to its historical antipathy to corporations,
bureaucratic culture and control by states. In a detailed
policy analysis of the pre-reform, reform, and post-reform
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