INFORMAL LUNCH BRIEFING RESPONSIBLE BUSINESS CONDUCT

Prof. Dr. Roel Nieuwenkamp• Chair of the OECD Working Party on Responsible Business Conduct

Email: roel.nieuwenkamp@minbuza.nl

Contents

1. NCP’s

2. Global Forum

3. Pro active agenda

4. Outreach

5. Funding needs

1. National Contact Points

• Momentum for reform

• Trade Unions and NGO’s: not enough!

• Many NCP’s insufficient resources

• ‘Functional equivalence’

• Capacity building

2. Global Forum on RBC

• Successful first GF 2013

• Mix of high level dialogue and expert sessions

3. Pro active agenda

• Textiles: High level ILO – OECD Forum 2014

• Financial sector - UN

• Extractive industries

• Agriculture – FAO

• Conflict-minerals

4. OUTREACH

1. Highest priority BIAC

2. China, India, South East Asia

4. “MENU” for outreach

1. Translation

2. Analysis (comparison OECD GL – National CSR policy)

3. Public policy dialogue

4. Steering board Global Forum

5. MOU

6. “RBC in …”

7. Promotion and good offices ‘on the ground’

5. Funding

• Higher expectations, lower VC’s

• Mismatch expectations after 2011 and severely under-resourced OECD Secretariat

• Urgent funding need