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Skane, Sweden

In partnership with IDEON OPEN of Lund University, Sweden, KJAER ADVICE formed part of the Future Scenario Workshop exploring what sustainable living will look like in 2030. What kinds of products and services will we need?

In a co-lab environment some 20 businesses co-created mindblowing new ideas! Participants were inspired in how to actively apply mega trends and a design driven approach to innovation in development of their future business.

Among the participants were Sony Nordic, Assa Abloy, and Perstorp. Stay tuned for an updoming Future Lab on innovation in food packaging in February 2017. For more information please go to the contact page.

Oslo, Norway

Scandinavian Business Finds New Opportunity in the UN Sustainable Development Goals
Scandinavia is bubbling up as a new center of activity in the shared value movement. In August 2016 Pure Consulting convened over hundred Norwegian professionals from a variety of sectors. Companies, NGOs and institutions working in Scandinavia and globally gathered in Oslo for Pure’s annual breakfast seminar about the latest trends in sustainability and shared value. This year’s topic: Using the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) as a framework for corporate sustainability efforts.

Industry leaders TOMRA, Airplane Express /Flytoget and Aker BioMarine shared their experience and KJAER ADVICE lectured on the role of cross-sector partnership collaboration in implementing the SDGs.

This year, we’re proud to say we’ve done something completely new with this event: We have created a shared value alliance in Scandinavia. This partnership will combine our two companies  (Pure Consulting in Norway and KJAER ADVICE in Denmark) in a joint initiative to share learnings and experiences with each other and the field.

There’s no doubt the SDGs are the new global framework that can be used by business, NGOs, and government to reach their goals within sustainability.

We hope we can take everyone – especially the Scandinavian region – with us on this journey, building on the experience that’s already there and then advancing it to the next level, thereby changing the world.

Watch the video below

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rpR0SGl6nd0

Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Louise Kjaer featuring in the Shared Value Initiative monthly newsletter

Copenhagen, Denmark

KJAER ADVICE continues to support the Group Sustainability team at A.P. Moller – Maersk, with a particular focus on emerging markets.
We provide sparring and guidance to the partnerships pilot projects that are currently being implemented across the world, in Indonesia, Latin America and in Africa. All project managers gather in Copenhagen in June.

Coinciding in June, KJAER ADVICE will facilitate the gathering in Copenhagen of The Global Alliance of Trade Facilitation –  a public-private partnership for trade-led growth.
The World Economic Forum,  the International Chamber of Commerce and the Center for International Private Enterprise, along with the governments of Canada, Germany, the United Kingdom and the United States will work in partnership to support effective implementation of the World Trade Organization’s (WTO) landmark Trade Facilitation Agreement (TFA). This which could reduce trade costs by an average of 14.3% and create up to 20 million jobs, mostly in developing countries.

Iraq & Uganda

Launch of a new Business-Humanitarian Partnership Lab
Humanitarian crises are occurring with greater frequency within the global landscape. These crises are becoming long lasting and require long-term solutions. Simultaneously, NGOs and humanitarian agencies are experiencing declining donor funding. This development – coupled with an increasing pressure on crisis-affected communities – calls for innovative solutions to tackle protracted crises by involving new actors.

KJAER ADVICE has been instrumental in brokering and designing an innovative cross-sector partnership between the Danish Refugee Council (DRC), one of the world’s leading humanitarian organizations, and Grundfos, a world leader in water system solutions.

Pilot testing this new cross-sector approach will kick-off during field visits to Iraq and Uganda. The fact-finding missions – where also technical university scholars from the Danish Technical University (DTU) are invited to join – will visit not only camp-sites but broader refugee communities within the host countiries to explore water-related needs and un-met business opportunities . The aim is for the patnership to jointly identify commercial opportunities and aid effeiciency gains in the invention of new products and service development solutions. It is also envisioned that these joint efforts may enhance an environment of local entrepreneurship, job creation and micro-economic improvements for the benefit of refugees and the host countries

New York, USA

As Consulting Affiliate to the Shared Value Initiative KJAER ADVICE participated at the 6th annual Share Value Leadership Summit taking place in the beginning of May. At the Summit, world leaders and business thinkers alike discussed the private sector’s role in achieving the UN Global Goals, shared value’s power to attract and retain young talent, and equity as a business imperative. Among the 400 attendees were CEOs of Nestlé, The Coca-Cola Company, Yara, Novozymes, Mahindra Group, and many more.

President of the World Bank, Jim Yong Kim, in a panel discussion with Michael Porter, FSG/Harvard Business School, stated:
”Creating economic opportunity will avoid conflict. It is evidenced that better health and education outcomes account for growth” (..) ” Governments alone cannot deliver. It is critically important to collaborate across sectors to build necessary economic growth.”

With Michael Porter adding:
”There is money on the table for businesses if they can actually help solve social or societal problems. Look for competitive advantages. How can we do thing differently? It’s about seeing opportunities that others miss!”

Dar es Salaam, Tanzania & Accra, Ghana

Bridging the digital divide!
KJAER ADVICE is conducting the first round of fact-finding missions to Africa for BLUETOWN in preparation of new multi-sector partnerships for e-content distribution to rural communities that are currently digitally un-connected.

Access to information to e-education, e-health and e-governance are seen as vital drivers of change.

Istanbul, Turkey

KJAER ADVICE has been appointed Focal Point for organizing a Side-event at the World Humanitarian Summit in Istanbul, Turkey, hosted by The Danish Refugee Council, the Danish company Grundfos and co-sponsored by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Denmark.

The event is entitled “From Donation to Market – Unlocking the Potential of Business-based Humanitarian Solutions”. The event will discuss how we can overcome the inherent obstacles associated with combining business culture, NGO-work practices and traditional public sector governance, thereby creating longer-term shared value for displaced populations and host countries.

Read more (Berlingske Tidende, in danish):
http://www.business.dk/danske-virksomheder-vil-udvikle-fremtidens-flygtningelejre

Copenhagen, Denmark

The Capital City of Copenhagen has contracted KJAER ADVICE to assist the newly established unit for partnership building residing with Denmark’s biggest employer, Copenhagen Municipality.

KJAER ADVICE has conducted series of internal training of staff and will continue to provide guidance throughout the year to the formation and implementation of partnerships with primarily the private sector.

Denmark, Global

The Danish Refugee Council (DRC) is a humanitarian, non-governmental, non-profit organization founded in 1956 that works in more than 30 countries throughout the world.

For the third year in a row the DRC occupies third place on Global Geneva’s list of the world’s best NGOs, selected among 1.800 candidate organizations worldwide.

KJAER ADVICE is providing strategic advice to the DRC and its ambitious new approach to innovative business-humanitarian partnership collaboration.

Read more (Berlingske Tidende, in danish):
http://www.b.dk/humanitaert-samarbejde-med-erhvervslivet