Outside view How could this new reality alter our perception of poverty, and the role of organisations like Director of the Project on Prosperity and Development and Schreyer Chair in Global Analysis at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington D.C., Dan Runde started his career as an investment banker, before moving on to take up positions including Director of the Office of Global Development Alliances at USAID and Head of Partnership Development at the IFC. Mr Runde joined the SNV USA board of directors in 2012. SNV in poverty alleviation? Our mental maps of poverty are going to have to change, along with our mental maps of these countries. They’re not all grindingly poor. They have an emerging middle class. Most of them don’t want centrally controlled economies. They want to participate fully in globalisation. They want their people participating in free markets and globalisation, whether it’s agriculture or small businesses. SNV is well equipped to participate in these changed mental maps. It’s a global NGO that can work with local companies, large philanthropies, other bilateral donors, the World Bank, the InterAmerican Development Bank, and so on. In many ways, SNV is already making the shift. Cooperation between different sectors is widely considered essential to meeting development goals. But is this the reality? The conversation has certainly shifted over the last 10 years. Cooperation is no longer a novelty. It’s an accepted part of the conversation. But it’s not yet entirely the reality. For scale or success, especially for donors, working multi-sector partnerships are a central part of the development future. But we haven’t yet adjusted our incentives, our systems, our planning or our strategies for development in ways that reflect that central truth. Large development NGOs with a large footprint, global corporate relationships, multiple donors and networks on the ground are the best placed to serve as brokers, convenors, implementers, advocates, and sources of multiple funding. What is it about SNV’s approach that makes it an attractive partner for foundations, is a plus, since the Netherlands is an interesting country brand for many donors. SNV is going through a process that a large number of global NGOs have gone through in the last 10 years, even in the United States. Many of them were funded by the United States government, but they made a strategic choice to diversify funding, seeing the opportunities in the private sector or with private sector funders or other donors. I believe it’s in SNV’s interest to have a diverse funder base. The potential rewards are much bigger in a world of larger multipartnership opportunities for a global solutions provider with supply chain expertise, knowledge gathering, networks, an ability to run projects and, over time, to access finance components. What do you see as the main advantages of privately funded development over traditional corporations and governments? SNV has a long-standing track record in developing countries, while maintaining a private-sector ethos. It has a sizable rolodex of partner-implementers and networks on the ground. It also has the ability to work with European donors, multilateral donors, the United States, philanthropy, and corporations. This is an attractive thing. People are looking for leverage. Large global nonprofits that have 501c3 [US non-profit] status are particularly attractive to large multinational companies, who receive a tax benefit from their contributions. Being Dutch 22 CONNECT #1 JULY 2012 aid programs? The world has changed. Nine out of every 10 jobs in the developing world are in the private sector, according to the World Bank. We’ve moved away from a centrally-planned or government-beneficence paradigm. There are all sorts of implications that have only slowly begun to seep in. I think sometimes people in the development community are willing to reference that truth, but don’t put their people, time and money and approaches toward actions that reflect it. To move ahead today, you want to connect smallholders or local producers to global supply chains. That’s sustainability of scale. You want to plug people into global standards and the global rules of the game so that they can participate more fully in the positive sides of globalisation, of which there are many. Pagina 21
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