During a seminar held on 3 December 2009 in Hanoi (Vietnam) on public-private partnerships for water management and the environment, Charles Chaumin (President of SUEZ ENVIRONNEMENT Asia) and Frédéric GOURDIN (Director of SUEZ ENVIRONMENT China at that time) submitted responses to help Vietnam “reinforce its environmental policies”.

For Alain Supiot, Director of the Institute for Advanced Studies (IEA) in Nantes, research in the social sciences can be of considerable use to companies of global scope and scale – in particular, as a means of setting up dialogue between the world of action and that of research.

View the last interview within the framework of the workshop on the NGOs-Firms partnership organized on April 16th: Bénédicte Hermelin, Director of the Gret, speaks about the difficult comprehension between partners that often have very different cultures and values. But once comprehension is established, partnerships help changing scale and bring new dimension to the Gret’s development projects.

Camille Destans is Head of Partnerships at Emmaus France.

Within the framework of the workshop on the NGOs-Firms partnership organized on April 16th, Camille Destans represented the only structure which does not work in the emerging countries. While discussions mainly focused on development projects, she stressed on the necessity for SUEZ ENVIRONNEMENT to act in favor of the 3% to 5% of the French population which do not have a “stable” access to water and assessment services.