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Implementing sustainable private sector development: Striving for tangible results for the poor

The key challenge for private sector development in 2006 is showing tangible, significant results in poverty eradication. Donors, researchers and practitioners have been challenged to focus on making markets work for the poor to consider the underlying rationale of market development strategies and...

Partnering for Development - Making it Happen

Partnering for Development - Making it Happen, a booklet, builds on the report from the Commission on the Private Sector and Development and looks at three areas of engagement: the development of commercially sustainable business models that can be expanded and replicated; the reform of laws,...

Tourism industry and poverty reduction: A business primer

Tourism industry and poverty reduction: A business primer, a policy briefing paper, explains why poverty does matter to tourism businesses and describes what companies – both in the originating and destination countries – can do to contribute to the global effort on poverty reduction.

Under the spotlight: Building a better understanding of global business-NGO partnerships

Focussing specifically on partnerships between business and NGOs, this paper aims to play its part in: * Revealing partnership potential; * Addressing the challenges that working outside one’s comfort zone invariably brings; and * Pushing forward the partnering agenda so that it starts to have...

GRACE

GRACE was one of the first non-profit Portuguese associations dedicated to the Corporate Social Responsibility issue. GRACE was formed by a group of companies, mostly multi-national, brought together by a common interest to expand the private sector’s role in social development. Having been born...

Business for Social Responsibility - China Training Institute

Business for Social Responsibility (BSR) helps companies make corporate social responsibility a part of their own business format. BSR provides tools, training and advisory services. The China Training Institute (CTI) is an ongoing independent project run by BSR, which started in 2004 and aims...

Canadian Business for Social Responsibility (CBSR)

Canadian Business for Social Responsibility (CBSR) is a non-profit, member-led organisation that mobilises Canadian companies to make powerful business decisions that improve performance and contribute to a better world. The globally-recognised source for corporate social responsibility in Canada,...

CorporateRegister.com

CorporateRegister.com is an online global directory of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) resources. The site resources include the CSR Report Directory of company-issued CSR, sustainability, and environment reports from around the world, ReportingPartners Directory covering thousands of CSR...

Exxon Mobil Corporation (ExxonMobil) – Chad/Cameroon

Exxon Mobil Corporation (ExxonMobil) is the world's largest publicly traded international oil and gas company, providing energy that helps underpin growing economies and improve living standards around the world. ExxonMobil’s Chad/Cameroon Development Project financed partly by the World Bank is...

respACT - Austrian Business Council for Sustainable Development

respACT - Austrian Business Council for Sustainable Development is the leading platform for Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and Sustainable Development in Austria. This association emerged from the fusion of the Austrian Business council for Sustainable Development (ABCSD) and respACT...

Sumitomo Chemical UK

Sumitomo Chemical is a large chemical company working in many industry sectors (petrochemical, plastics, insecticides etc. As part of its corporate social responsibility programme, Sumitomo Chemical also supplies the Olyset Long Lasting Insecticide Net for malaria prevention. The Olyset Net was...

INDIACSR

INDIACSR is only CSR news portal in India providing a business network for Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) through which companies can share ideas on best practices and discuss collaborative projects between the firm and its end stakeholders. INDIACSR also provides a forum for dialogue...

One World Trust

One World Trust aims to achieve the eradication of poverty, injustice and war. It conducts research on practical ways to make global organizations more responsive to the people they affect, and on how the rule of law can be applied equally to all. Its guiding vision is a world where all peoples...

ACCSR

ACCSR (Australian Centre for Corporate Social Responsibility) is a highly specialised independent management consulting and training firm that helps organisations create lasting value through responsible business strategies and productive stakeholder relationships.

csrnetwork

CSR network is a consultancy that helps companies do business in a responsible way and aims to make corporate social responsibility (CSR) a reality. The organisation offers services ranging from CSR strategy to environmental auditing, stakeholder dialogue and report development.

Compagnie Financière Richemont S.A. (RICHEMONT)

Compagnie Financière Richemont S.A. is a South African luxury goods holding company founded in 1988 by the South African businessman Johann Rupert. The group’s activities and products include jewellery, fine watchmaking and premium accessories, which encompasses writing instruments, leather goods...

Food and Water Watch

Food & Water Watch is a non-profit organization that advocates for common sense policies that will result in healthy, safe food and access to safe and affordable drinking water. The organization's staff, located in 15 offices in the United States, works with a range of constituencies to inform...

Caring Company (HK)

Caring Company is a platform engaging over 1700 corporations and 300 NGOs, working together for the benefits of all in the community. It provides localised tools, templates, guidelines and training to assist NGOs and companies in developing long-term partnerships. To help business corporations plan...

Global Standards

Global Standards specialises in corporate social responsibility consulting in respect to international labour, environmental and safety standards for export manufacturers in Asia. On its website, the organisation posts resources in respect to the Vietnamese Labor Code, local Vietnamese labor laws,...

Unternehmen: Partner der Jugend e.V. (UPJ)

Unternehmen: Partner der Jugend e.V. (UPJ) combines 19 regional and local intermediary organisations and more than 60 companies in order to promote Corporate Citizenship and Corporate Social Responsibility in Germany. UPF aims at fostering long-term co-operation between businesses, community...