KEY COMMITMENTS

PRIVATE - PUBLIC PARTNERSHIP DIALOGUE

A dialogue of business, government, NGO and United Nations leaders to discuss corporate leadership on behalf of children.

9 May 2002. UNITED NATIONS, NEW YORK. Eight leaders of global corporations and foundations gathered together today out of common concern for the well being of children, and to express their commitment to work together to build new private-public partnerships for children. The leaders met with four Heads of State and seven founding members of the GMC. The meeting was organized and sponsored by GMC members (see below).

Key Commitments

1) The private sector expressed strong commitment to a World Fit for Children, the new global agenda for children, and to pursuing new partnerships for children that are focussed on this specific and time bound agenda.

2) The NGO and private sector participants have agreed to continue to meet at working levels to develop a proposal regarding increased and broadened support for this agenda. Next such meeting within three months.

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The business leaders included Bill Gates, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation; Rolf Dorig, Chairman Switzerland, Credit Suisse Group; Eduardo Gonzalez, President, Bancafe; Steve Hilton, Conrad Hilton Foundation; John Moridge, Chaiman, Cisco Systems; John Pepper, Chairman, Procter and Gamble; Azim Premji, Chairman and CEO, WIPRO; Tim Wirth, President, United Nations Foundation.

Participating Heads of State included President Fox, Mexico; President Halonen, Finland; President Museveni, Uganda; President Toledo, Peru. NGO leaders participating included Michael Aaronson, Save the Children Alliance; Peter Bell, CARE; John Greensmith, Plan International; Charles Lyons, U.S.Fund for UNICEF; David Morrison, NetAid; David Toycen, World Vision, Canada.