Read how NGOs and private companies should and could cooperate in Africa. Presentation held by Jakob Schmidt, Falck, at the seminar 'New Emerging Markets in Africa'.

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CooperationbetweenNGOsand private companies
Copenhagen Business School, 23 October 2014
Jakob Schmidt
Senior Vice President

2. NGO: Non-Governmental Organisation focused mainly/solely on the social impact of its activities. Financial resources provided by actors that do not expect an economic return on their donations
Agendas: Human rights, environmental, development, health
Private companies: FOR profit organisations whose chief ambition is to generate a return to their owners
The Scene
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(What) can they learn from each other?
How would such cooperation be organised?
Why would their cooperation create value?

3. Who is Falck?
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Emergency & Clinics
Assistance
Healthcare
SafetyServices
Falck Group Divisions andServices

4. NGOs are an integral part of the health provision in sub-Saharan Africa
•Competitor?
•Collaborator or partner?
•Customer?
Think healthcare eco-system
NGOs in Sub-Saharan Africa
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5. NGO motives
•Sooner or later, I won’t be needed here
•Sooner or later, my funding will stop
•How can I use all that I have learned and built?
•Can I turn my organisation into something else?
•Maybe I could learn something from the business side?
Why Cooperate?
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Private company motives
•The NGOs are already here
•They have all the good people and at lot of the infrastructure
•They are known and trusted
•Maybe the NGOs can teach me something about what this community needs and how I may be able to provide it?

6. Social entrepreneurship: A hybrid endeavour that combines business principles and even long term profit motives with social impact
Impact investors: Investors that are prepared to wait a long time for any financial return, as long as this return is accompanied by a suitable and sustainable social or environmental return
Social Entrepreneurship
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Economic development
Technology
Politics

7. Sustainability
…Activities that carry an economic return tend to get perpetuated
Corporate Social Responsibility
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Profitability
…Activities that are perceived to be truly valuable by the users tend to be profitable
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Social impact is an integral part of Falck’sexpansion into developing markets –not by design but by necessity

8. Social license: Beyond formal regulatory processes, a local community’s acceptance or approval of a company and its activities
Where is the value created?
•Better use of health infrastructure
•Better use of scarce human health resources
•Synergistic knowledge sharing
Social License
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9. Patience is a virtue. The business toolbox works
•Motives and expectations
•Business plan
•Legal vehicle
•Exit
Falckexperiences
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