Presentation to Smart Supply Chain Conference, Sydney, June 2009. This demonstrates how alignment of business activity with poverty reduction goals can work hand in hand.

1. The Human Factor Pro-poor supply chains: business development & poverty reduction Bill Hurditch NSW Director Business for Millennium Development

2. The case for linking business with poverty elimination If the increasing global population of poor people is brought into the commercial world, there is every prospect of sustaining our businesses and of eliminating poverty …

3. Millennium Development Goals Eradicating extreme poverty and hunger Achieving universal primary education Promoting gender equality & empowering women Reducing child mortality Improving maternal health Combating HIV/AIDS, malaria, & other diseases Ensuring environmental sustainability, and Developing a global partnership for development

4. Australians know virtually nothing about these poverty reduction goals for our region ...

5. Yet Australia’s bilateral trade with these countries is huge ...

6. Business for Millennium Development Our mission is to identify and catalyse corporate linkages and partnerships that will grow business and alleviate poverty …. …. together

7. Really smart supply chains! Major Australian corporations are already sourcing and supplying goods and services in countries where poverty exists. By rethinking those supply chains they can reach right into the lives and prospects of men, women and children to address poverty in concrete ways. Done strategically, this can generate new business opportunities.

8. A global initiative

9. Realigned global businesses: some case studies Cadbury Cocoa Partnership

10. Realigned global businesses: case studies ... Walmart’s Inclusive Market Alliance

11. Realigned global businesses: case studies ... Unilever Farmer DevelopmentProgram

12. Realigned global businesses: some case studies Daimler-Chrysler and POEMA

13. Australian project initiatives Water pouches in South Vietnam

14. “Spoken Web” for Indigenous poverty

15. Geotextiles in Solomon Islands & East Timor

16. MMV Malaria treatment distribution by Australian miners

17. Field testing of TB device in PNG World map showing reported cases of tuberculosis per 100,000 citizens. Red = >300, orange = 200-300; yellow = 100-200; green 50-100; blue = <50 and grey = n/a.

18. Pro-poor business mission to PNG

19. What’s in it for my business? Improved supply chain New marketplace opportunities Become an employer of choice Improved corporate culture Staff retention and morale Improved investor relations Global corporate reputation Enhanced licence to operate Personal motivation

21. What’s the next step for you? Visit….. www.B4MD.com.au Consider where your supply chain intersects with poverty, and look for ways to grow business and address that poverty … at the same time Partner with other businesses to grow new opportunities under this win-win banner