Raymond Saner made a presentation at the Social Impact Public Private Partnership Conference on 10th November 2021 organized by SOS Children’s Villages International. His presentation was titled “ What Role for NGOs and Civil Society in Next Level PPPs”.
Raymond Saner & Lichia Yiu made a presentation at the Second Festival of Socio-Economic Management organized by ISEOR, Lyon on 8, 9 and 1O November 2021 in Lyon, France during the book vernissage of the book titled ''Treatise of Socio Economic Approach to Management: Theory and Practice . Raymond Saner & Lichia Yiu’s book chapter is called “ Succesful sustainable development goals (SDG) transformation through Socio-Economic Co-Creation”. pp 1038-1048.
Side Event, UNECE 5th PPP Forum
Monday, 26 April 2021
This Side Event was co-organised by CSEND and WAPPP. PPP experts present chapters of a new publication titled “Making PPPs fit the 2030 Agenda”. The research has been undertaken jointly by seven authors, all are members of WAPPP and two are also members of the UNECE PPP Bureau. The intention of this paper is to contribute to the development of PPP theory and best practice and to align PPPs with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The seven chapters reflect the individual authors’ insights into different aspects of the current state of PPP development and areas for policy and practice improvement including: - The need for harmonized actions and - The evolving theoretical developments of PPP and their alignment with the 2030 SDG Agenda. The topics of the presentations will be: - The Need for a High-Quality SDG 17.17.1 Indicator; Evolution of PPP Concepts and Practice; The Emergence of People-first PPP; When Public-Private Partnerships Put People First; PPPs and ESG; Intergenerational Redistributive Effects in Value for People and Value for the Future; Closing Comments .
This paper proposes a post-covid-19 reconstruction strategy in the designated Special Economic Zone (SEZ) of East Naples by proposing a local economy oriented towards circular economy in combination with socio-economic activities that are part of the creative industry. The objective of this exploratory research is to provide alternative redevelopment strategies going beyond “business as usual” but are more aligned with sustainable development of tomorrow.
On 22nd June 2020, Prof Raymond Saner joined the WAPPP webinar on "How to increase the ESG impact in public-private partnership investments"
During the 2017 UN conference in Jamaica, Raymond Saner made two presentations, wrote one paper and gave an interview.
Interview: Challenges and potential solutions to financing the SDGs || Caribbean Action 2030 Conference 2017
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o9rHLpdLWdI
Academy of Management, Boston, 9th August 2019
Since the Great Depression of 2008 interest has grown in inclusive organizations that share ownership, participation and profits such as worker cooperatives, employee stock ownership plans (ESOP’s), perpetual trusts, and employee-owned collectives. All such organizations fall under Paul Adler’s (2016) definition of alternative economic futures. Some countries such as the United States and United Kingdom have passed legislation to encourage the development of such enterprises. Non-Governmental Organizations (NGO’s) emphasizing ESOP and cooperative associations have been established or have become more visible in multiple countries. The United Nations declared 2012 as the International Year of Cooperatives. On July 28, 2017, the China Daily reported that employee-owned firms were growing rapidly in China. Furthermore, it attributed the resurgence of the Chinese stock market and investor confidence to the growth in shared ownership. Despite the interest and application of alternate economic forms, there is little coverage of them in both the academic (Thompson, 2014) and popular press (Alperovitz, 2017). Consequently, understanding how to develop such enterprises is not well disseminated. Thus, the purpose of this workshop was to bring together some of the leaders in this area to present some ideas and for all the participants in the workshop to work collaboratively to examine and generate additional ideas on how to disseminate knowledge about growing inclusive organizations that share ownership, participation and profits.
Paper and power point presentation titled “ Living Wage and Sustainable Development Goal # 8” by Raymond Saner and Lichia Yiu, CSEND, Geneva given during the “6th Conference of the Regulating for Decent Work Network” (RDW) at the International Labour Office Geneva, Switzerland, 8-10 July 2019
The lnternational Labour Organization (ILO) was created in 1919 at the end of World War 1. lts establishment was part of the Treaty of Versailles. The initial ILO statutes pointed out that lasting peace depends on social justice. To stay relevant, the ILO must now rise to huge challenges and contribute to solve the socio-economic problems humanity is facing today.
09 /12 /2018 - by Raymond Saner, CSEND-D+C
Raymond Saner (2018); Successful financing of the SDGs through PPPs requires building capacities for a PCSD approach.
In OECD (2018), Policy Coherence for Sustainable Development 2018: Towards Sustainable and Resilient Societies, OECD Publishing, Paris; http://dx.doi.org/10.1787/9789264301061-en, p.220-222
Many developing country governments are not aware of the legal implications of PPP+s, the potential risk in regard to financial liabilities nor of the potential alternative financing instruments available to finance SDG-related physical and social infrastructure projects.