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Afghanistan Generic Medicines Project

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The Business Humanitarian Forum (BHF) ... was created to encourage dialogue and mutual support between the business and humanitarian communities. The BHF’s efforts are rooted in the knowledge that Businesses and humanitarian organizations hold common interests in the stability and prosperity of developing societies and countries in transition. Businesses need the humanitarian organizations to stabilize these societies so they can invest and pursue their normal business activities. The humanitarian organizations need business investment so that, ultimately, these societies can stand on their own feet, and the humanitarian groups can turn to more urgent needs elsewhere.

The BHF, a non-profit association based in Geneva, was founded in January 1999 with the encouragement and support of UN Secretary General Kofi Annan. The organisation seeks to promote private sector involvement in post-conflict areas, working with humanitarian aid agencies already providing direct assistance in these areas, to enhance prospects for economic development as stability returns.

The European Generic medicines Association (EGA) is the official repre-sentative body of the European generic pharmaceutical industry, which is at the forefront of providing high-quality affordable medicines to millions of Europeans and stimulating competitiveness and innovation in the pharmaceutical sector.

Formed in 1993, the EGA represents generic pharmaceuticals companies and their subsidiaries from throughout Europe, either directly or through national associations. Companies represented within the EGA provide over 100,000 jobs in Europe. Cost-effective generic medicines save EU patients and healthcare systems over €18 billion each year, thus helping to ensure patient access to essential medicines and providing urgently needed budget headroom for the pruchase of new and innovative treatments.

The EGA plays an important consultative role in European healthcare policy-making. The EGA and its members work with the European national governments and the EU institutions to develop affordable solutions for pharmaceutical care and to increase Europe’s competitive strength in the global pharmaceutical medicines market.

The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) is the UN’s global development network, advocating for change and connecting countries to knowledge, experience and resources to help people build a better life. The UNDP is on the ground in 166 countries, working with them on their own solutions to global and national development challenges. As they develop local capacity, they draw on the people of UNDP and its wide range of partners.

World leaders have pledged to achieve the Millennium Development Goals, including the overarching goal of cutting poverty in half by 2015. UNDP’s network links and coordinates global and national efforts to reach these Goals. The UNDP’s focus is helping countries build and share solutions to the challenges of: Democratic Governance, Poverty Reduction, Crisis Prevention and Recovery, Energy and Environment, Information and Communications Technology, HIV/AIDS.

Deutsche Post World Net/DHL, the world’s leading logistics Group, is committed to balancing economic, social & environmental objectives for the overall goal of a sustainable business.

Deutsche Post World Net joined the project with its express delivery and logistics subsidiary DHL to provide comprehensive support by organizing the logistics of transporting the donated machinery to Afghanistan and by training the local staff in storage and delivery methods.

The Deutsche Investitions–und Entwicklungs-gesellschaft (DEG), one of Europe’s largest development finance institutes, finances investments of private companies in developing and transition countries to establish and expand private enterprise structures. DEG is co-financing the Afghanistan Generic Medicines Project with funds from the Public-Private Partnership Programme of the German federal government.