Business Partnerships

Women and Development

Care Global Partnership (Walmart) In May 2009, Walmart announced a $1 million grant to CARE. Projects funded by this initial grant focus on empowering impoverished young women from around the world through formal education, job-training and entrepreneurial support programs. With this grant, Walmart and CARE are focusing on young women in Peru, Bangladesh, and India.

Sustainable Economic Growth

Brazil Responsible Sourcing Project (Walmart) Walmart Stores, USAID, TransFair USA, and local Brazilian partner Sebrae-MG are partnering to increase the incomes of smallholder coffee farmers in Brazil. Alliance partners seek to provide coffee growing cooperatives with the resources and expertise to help smallholder farmers increase exports of Organic and Fair Trade Certified coffee by 400% and 350% respectively. In August 2009, Walmart announced that two new Fair Trade Certified Member's Mark coffee options from Brazil are available in more than 600 Sam's Club locations in the United States.

Supporting Local Capacity and Leadership (Chevron) Between 2005 and 2006, Chevron Nigeria Ltd. (CNL) signed Global Memoranda of Understanding (GMOUs) with eight clusters of communities and their state governments in the Niger Delta. Shifting from a more philanthropic to a sustainable community development model, the GMOUs have largely shifted ownership and control of Chevron-funded programs to the communities. Seventy-one settlements and over 600,000 residents are represented by Regional Development Councils (RDCs), with membership drawn from the communities. In some cases, groups that were engaged in armed conflict a few years prior now work in collaboration within the councils to define community needs and execute plans.

Education

Empowering Teachers and Students (Chevron) Chevron and Discovery Channel Global Education Partnership (DCGEP) have established 65 Learning Centers in underserved schools in Angola, Nigeria, South Africa, Venezuela and now Brazil. Over 2,400 teachers, 104,000 students and 312,000 community members have benefited and the positive impact continues to grow. Participating schools report an increase in student enrollment, a decrease in absenteeism, and improved student motivation and academic performance. To ensure the initiative has government support, Chevron and DCGEP work with the National and Provincial Ministries of Education to identify how the Learning Center initiative can best complement national education priorities.

Post-Conflict Development

Angola Partnership Initiative (Chevron) After decades of civil conflict, Chevron, US Agency for International Development, and the Government of Angola launched the Angola Partnership Initiative (API) to support national economic recovery and development. API's projects focus on agriculture, vocational training, micro-lending, small business development, and municipal governance. Chevron contributed $25 million to launch API. Chevron, together with international investment partners, established NovoBanco in 2004 as part of API, with the primary objective of enhancing the local economic base of Angola.

Health

Global Fund's Corporate Champions Program (Chevron) Chevron has established strategic partnerships with Global Fund grant recipients in Angola, South Africa, Nigeria, Indonesia, Thailand and the Philippines focused on building organization capacity and improving program effectiveness and reach. Chevron has made a three-year $30 million commitment to the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria. Helping to eradicate these diseases is one of the clearest examples of how long-term business interests and commitment to corporate responsibility are intrinsically linked.

Diflucan Partnership Program (Pfizer) With about 40 million people currently living with AIDS, and 5 million new cases in 2003, many companies are involved with AIDS/HIV education and prevention programs in countries around the world. Pfizer's strategy is to partner with effective organizations on the ground to combine the distribution of critical medicines with training, education, mentoring and the building of sound medical infrastructures. Pfizer’s Diflucan Partnership Program is a public-private partnership that donates Diflucan ® (fluconazole) for two opportunistic infections associated with HIV/AIDS in developing countries, and trains health care providers. As of January 2005, Pfizer has donated more than $100 million in medicine to 29 countries in more than 1000+ sites in Africa, Asia, the Caribbean and Latin America, and treated more than 110,000 patients. More than 18,000 health care providers have been trained in the diagnosis and treatment of fungal opportunistic infections.

Roll Back Malaria (Exxon Mobil) The goal of Roll Back Malaria (RBM), a global partnership founded by the World Health Organization (WHO), the United Nations Development Program (UNDP), the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) and the World Bank, is to halve the world’s malaria burden by 2010. In an effort to support the objective, ExxonMobil is represented on the RBM board and involved in a range of malaria initiatives. The company has been integrally involved with a project to manufacture and market long-lasting insecticidal bednets in Africa. ExxonMobil has also announced that it will donate $10 million to anti-malaria efforts through the “Idol Gives Back” episode of the popular FOX-TV show American Idol.