11 NUMBER GENERALI GROUP MAGAZINE SINCE 1893 series 11 - July 2012 il bollettino 21 Real Estate Dossier 2 Millennium Development Goals 7 Interview with Chairman of ANIA index 36 100 years of INA Assitalia POSTE ITALIANE S.P.A. - SPEDIZIONE IN ABBONAMENTO POSTALE 70% CNS PN FOUR-MONTHLY index index 11 UMBER N These are times for reporting... on sustainability. Generali’s feature report for this year describes activities in support of the Millennium Development Goals [p.2], the UN objectives for The UN’s Millennium the world’s population. Development Goals and the Sustainability Report 2 In the interview with ANIA Chairman Aldo Minucci [p.7] we hear of developments in motor insurance and proposals for dossier the sector’s future. News from the Group regarding We move on to discussions of efficiency with a report on property management 219 the business performance analysis system implemented by Generali France [p.14], the low impact column [p.16], which interview describes the eco-friendly procurement and supplies system, Aldo Minucci, Chairman of ANIA: and an account of the AGIRE Project [p.18] for professional how motor insurance is changing 7 development of the Generali network. Next comes a comprehensive three-part special report [p.21] fromthegroup explaining how Generali’s property portfolio is managed. Global performance in France 4014 We then turn to history and culture with three items that AGIRE: investing in excellence 3618 are a source of pride for us: participation by Alleanza Toro 100 years of INA Assitalia 36 [p.33] in artistic and historical restoration work in Turin, the centenary of INA Assitalia [p.36], and a discussion of the culture&society prestigious BSI Art Collection [p.39]. The next two articles deal principally, but not exclusively, Alleanza Toro’s work within the Consulta 3316 with sport: sponsorship of Giovanni Soldini’s North Atlantic The history of the adventure [p.42], and the itinerant event promoted by Banca BSI Art Collection 39 Generali in various Italian cities, where four great champions Giovanni Soldini’s 42 [p.45] introduce children to the sporting ethos. inspiring challenge A Champion for a Friend 45 As usual, we close with the men and history column, dedicated in this issue to Pasquale Revoltella [p.48], a great entrepreneur and benefactor who was a leading figure in the column project to construct the Suez Canal. Low impact: Eco-friendly purchasing 1416 Enjoy your read! Men and history: Pasquale Revoltella 5048 The authors of the articles and the interviewed persons are solely responsible for the opinions hereby expressed. 4 values, 4 strengths The articles in il bollettino reveal the shared values that underpin the growth of Generali Group. Every article closes with a logo symbolising the value that is closest to the theme of the topic covered. feature The Millennium Goals the UN’s 8 fundamental objectives for the world’s population EIGHT MILLENNIUM D E V E L O P M E N T GOALS: THE LIST OF FUNDAMENTAL OBJECTIVES TO BE ATTAINED BY 2015 index 2 by Alessandra Gambino together on film various images and sequences At the Millennium Summit held connected by a common at the United Nations (UN) ending. Every action then Headquarters in 2000, 189 becomes the start of a story countries made a commitment which, added to the others, to free the world population allows one to say that much from poverty and many has been achieved and that other deprivations. The eight certain targets are close to Millennium Development being reached. Goals derive from this declaration and constitute While the goal of reducing ©SHANGHAI CHERISHED DREAM CHARITY FOUNDATION a list of fundamental global poverty by half is objectives to be reached by about to be reached and 2015. In September 2010, the war against diseases the UN recommitted itself to such as malaria is achieving accelerating progress towards success in sub-Saharan these objectives. Africa, and although one and a half billion more people As the first project ever to have access to clean water have attracted this level than in 1990, other goals of international support unfortunately risk being and participation, it finally missed unless urgent action ©AMREF FLYING DOCTORS the first project ever to have attracted this level of international support and participation provides an opportunity to is taken. At least a quarter of establish benchmark figures children living in developing countries are underweight for analysis of the devastating, NATURPARK HOHER VOGELSBERG persistent and pervasive and malnourished, with little problem of poverty and hope of reaching adulthood. attendant ills. Every year over half a million women die in childbirth, and The Millennium Goals are the number of people in sub- both global and local, since Saharan Africa living on less each nation is asked to adapt than a dollar a day needs to strategies and goals to its be further reduced by half. specific needs by developing Furthermore, in countries programmes for what might be like Mexico, Brazil, Romania, termed macro-interventions, Macedonia and Indonesia, including the involvement of inequality remains at levels local communities in action that require detailed plans plans connected to everyday to be drawn up against the PHOTO: CHEN DAOE life. The result is a kind pressing problems of social index of framework that brings marginalisation. fromthegroup The global economic crisis is NATURPARK LÜNEBURGER HEIDE a destabilising factor that has not only damaged finance and trade but also discouraged donations. Given the obstacles to investment in such challenging circumstances, government agencies are being asked to renew their support, and to go further with a pledge that the advantages it brings will not be wasted. At an international level the United Nations Development Programme encourages the development of synergies between participating countries in a Global Partnership for Development, and attempts locally to align the Millennium Goals to particular circumstances by helping national governments to undertake research in the field, define and implement strategy, manage finance, and prepare and audit reports. It is indeed the realisation of local strategies that underlies this phase of project acceleration: not only making the Goals known to local communities in the countries concerned, but also ensuring that the voices of people in marginalised and underprivileged communities PHOTO: CHEN DAOE reach local and national governments, who can then implement their strategies and PHOTO: KENNY TSANG achieve the agreed objectives. Generali, also, has chosen to join the challenge. index VDN/MAX PATERNOSTER ©SHANGHAI CHERISHED DREAM CHARITY FOUNDATION 4 2011 Sustainability Report: the Group’s contribution to attaining the 8 Goals O QUADRIVI O The eighth edition of the Generali Group Sustainability Report has been published. This year’s Report follows GRAPHICS TRIVI tradition, with photographs illustrating aspects of the Group’s initiatives. This time the focus is on projects that aim to respond to the request for companies to help achieve the Millennium Development Goals. For practical reasons the Report restricts itself to projects in four major areas under the banners of work, education, health and environment, some of which are directed to more than one Goal. The chapter entitled The photographs in the brick kilns in the Jhajjar contains photographs “Group” is illustrated with “Direct Stakeholders” district of northern India. illustrating three projects photographs of Generali chapter cover initiatives Run by the Fondazione Don in Africa that aim to reduce Millennium, a far-reaching related to universal primary Bosco, it educates children infant mortality rates, initiative in India aimed at education (Goal 2). Some of who live with their families in improve maternal health, eradicating poverty and the images show projects hovels with no running water, and combat serious diseases hunger (Goal 1). It operates based in China, in particular electricity or proper sanitation. such as AIDS or malaria, thus by establishing a fund for three primary schools (Hope, The area is home to a high covering the three Goals financing the start-up of small related to health. The first is entrepreneurial projects, the DREAM (Drug Resource such as the canteen built for the Report restricts itself to projects in four Enhancement against AIDS Loyola College in Vettavalam and Malnutrition) project of and the brick-production major areas under the banners of work, the Community of Sant’Egidio, facility established in the education, health and environment which runs 36 centres in ten village of Kuppayanallur, African states. The project in Tamil Nadu, which offers focuses in particular on HIV- decent work to members of positive pregnant women, the Dalit community (the Shanchegou and Shadi), concentration of immigrants and aims both to prevent most disadvantaged segment and the Shanghai Cherished who work in its 450 or so transmission of the disease of Indian society), including Dream Charity Foundation, for brick-production facilities, and to guarantee the survival many women. It also offers which the Group has provided often alongside children who of mother and child. Generali microinsurance products that computers, stationery and now have the possibility has supported the project allow very low income workers books to help children from of receiving education and for many years, providing to use important services the poorest families to medical care as a result of funding for the construction that would otherwise be study. Further images come Generali’s support. of two centres equipped unavailable to them, such as from India, where Generali with molecular biology index medical attention in the event has helped to set up an The “Competitive laboratories, the last of these of illness or accidents. elementary school near the Stakeholders” chapter inaugurated in July 2011. Other 5 fromthegroup images cover the activities national parks organised by of AMREF, the principal Green Power, an independent non-profit private health association.