Business Partnerships

Small Enterprise Development

Angola Partnership Initiative (Chevron) ChevronTexaco Corp., along with the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), in cooperation with the Government of Angola, have launched two public-private partnerships as part of a $50 million overall initiative to support education, training, and small business development in Angola. ChevronTexaco and USAID’s Enterprise Development Alliance is providing technical assistance and financial support to small enterprises in Angola with an emphasis on the agricultural and water sectors. In addition, this alliance is structured to support education and training projects. ChevronTexaco and UNDP have also created a new privately managed Angola Enterprise fund which is structured to attract other private and public donors. The program focuses on vocational training and job creation for small and medium sized businesses in Angola. Matching funding commitments to this partnership are currently targeted at $10 million.

Access to Finance

Micro-insurance for the Poor (AIU Holdings) AIU Holdings launched its first micro–insurance operations with FINCA, a world-renowned provider of microfinance services, in Uganda in 1997. Since that time, AIU Holdings and FINCA have expanded access to risk management services through FINCA's network of Village Banks in 20 countries throughout Africa, Eurasia and Latin America, delivering services such as credit-life, life, accidental death and disability insurance. This unique alliance combines the skills and experience of a world-class insurance provider with a network of Village Banking programs that is both grassroots and global, helping ensure that working families in developing countries have the financial tools they need to lift themselves out of poverty. The collaboration between AIU Holdings and FINCA is the prototype for the 'partner-agent' model in the emerging field of micro-insurance.

Health

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.

Labor Standards

Global Training Partnership (Gap, Inc/Limited Brands) The Global Training Partnership (GTP), created in 2003, is generates programs designed to strengthen the capacity of both business and government to improve the quality of jobs, working conditions and labor practices in developing countries. GTP develops and implements innovative, high-impact training and skills building programs that address productivity issues and well as other root causes of low-quality jobs and poor workplace environments. GTP has developed and managed programs in Lesotho, Vietnam, Turkey and elsewhere.