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Dear The NETWORK Members

This Bi-Monthly Newsnugget is developed and distributed by THE NETWORK for NGO- Business partnerships for purposes of Sustainable Development www.ngobiz.org   with support of Kenan Institute Asia, Asian Development Bank and GSK Biologicals Inc.

In this issue:
1. News
1.1  Professionals demand Global Partnership for Development

2. Knowledge
2.1 A nonprofit goes for broke, McKinsey Quarterly

3. Trainings, Workshops, Seminars, Meetings
3.2  Conference on CSR in Asia-Toward Multi-Stakeholder Dialogue and Cooperation for Sustainable Development,   October 25-26, 2006, Hilton Hanoi Opera, Hanoi, Vietnam
3.1  Conference on Financial Health for “The Next Generation”, November 9-10, 2006,  Westin Chosun Hotel, Seoul, South Korea

4. Opportunities
4.1 Building Partnerships for the Prevention and Control of Avian and Pandemic Influenza (PAI) in the Greater Mekong Subregion
4.2 2006 Global Youth Entrepreneurship Forum

5. Message from the The Secretariat of the NETWORK

Sincerely,
Pareena Prayukvong
Secretariat of The NETWORK

1. News

1.1 Professionals demand Global Partnership for Development

From 25-27 September, 130 professionals from around the world joined forces in Cambridge to write a Declaration targeted at leaders from across the corporate business, government and charitable sectors to tackle the persistent problems of poverty, environmental degradation and government accountability.  Titled "The 21st Century Leadership Challenge",  the document describes seven actions that society's leaders need to take to realize the full potential of strategic alliances between businesses, government and civil society organizations. It calls on the leaders of businesses, government authorities and non-governmental organizations everywhere to stop for a moment and give serious attention to the way their organizations work. The Declaration asks for:

* public and corporate policies that value multi-stakeholder partnerships as a viable strategy for organizations to achieve their primary purpose;

* competitive tendering procedures that stimulate, rather than inhibit, the negotiation of innovative and creative multi-stakeholder partnerships;

* training programs and staff advancement criteria that develop the potential of individuals as partnership professionals; and

* new performance indicators that measure success not only as the achievement of near-term objectives, but also of longer-term sustainable development goals.

For more information, see http://us.oneworld.