IASC Weekly Meeting: Partnerships between Clusters and the Private Sector
Geneva
Meeting Documents
1. Building Partnerships between Clusters and the Private Sector
Mr. Ed Martinez, Director of Philanthropy and Corporate Relations of the UPS Foundation and rotating chair of the Logistics and Emergency Teams (LET) and Mr. Thomas Thompson from WFP will brief on the partnership between the private sector companies and the logistics cluster, its structure, interests of the partners involved, perceptions, best practices and challenges. The presentations will draw on specific examples of private sector support to humanitarian operations and some lessons learned.
Background
Following the briefing on Disaster Resource Partnerships by the World Economic Forum at the IASC Weekly meeting on 09 February 2011 , participants expressed their interests to continue the discussion of partnerships between clusters, humanitarian organisations and private sector companies. Since the WEF facilitated a partnership between a group of private sector companies and the logistics cluster, the presenters of this meeting will share more details about how this partnership functions. Participants can discuss how such partnerships can be established between other clusters and groups of companies.
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