Avian flu: Expanding global vaccine production
“If governments are to be prepared for a potential avian-flu pandemic, they must bring pharmaceutical companies and health organizations into the strategic-planning process.” By Kenneth Bonheure, Pierre Keller, and Ken Somers Source: McKinsey Weekly Web exclusive, July 2006 With avian influenza spreading from Asia to Africa and Europe, governments are under increasing public pressure to […]
Private Environmental Governance and the Sustainability Transition: Functions and Impacts of NGO-Business Partnerships by Philip
Abstract: The report looks into whether firms involved with NGOs for the purpose of furthering sustainable development, are actually doing so. A key concern of the report is that NGO-business “voluntary initiatives” may weaken traditional engines of corporate responsibility such as governmental and inter-governmental regulation as well as critical NGO and civil society activism. Utting […]
Private sector ‘not the answer to poverty’ by Philip Thornton
Source: The Independent Rich countries must deliver more money directly to poor nations to avert a growing health and sanitation crisis spreading across the southern hemisphere, said Oxfam. The global charity said investment in health care, water, sanitation and education must be delivered by governments rather than the private sector. Belinda Calaguas, the head of […]
How Nonprofits Get Really Big
Published in Standford Social Innovation Review By William Foster & Gail Fine Learn how 144 out of 200,000 nonprofits can grow so large by diversifying the funding. Good case for Asian ngos to ponder how to secure enough fund to grow their organizations and gain the development impact. Since 1970, more than 200,000 nonprofits have […]
Hong Kong- CSR Asia Summit 2007
Countries start to introduce CSR into new laws-Firms across Asia taking heed of society By KRISSANA PARNSOONTHORN Source: Business Section, Bangkok Post, 7 November 2007 Hong Kong _Corporate social responsibility is a new challenge for business in Asia, and some countries are now getting serious about implementing the concept into laws and regulations. Read the […]
How to Make Your CSR Sustainable
Accelerating Corporate Sustainability in Asia Systems Tools, Frameworks, Methods and Processes to Support CSR and Corporate Sustainability By Robert Steele, Sustainability Asia & The NETWORK Consultant The challenge of sustainable development creates unprecedented demands for learning, thinking, planning and decision-making. Economic, social, and environmental performance must all be improved, usually all at the same time, […]
News: Indonesian and Philippine CSR – A Model of ASEAN CSR
Author: Kendrick Go By Manila Times, Thursday 19, 2008 The ASEAN Foundation stated yesterday that the Philippines and Indonesia were good examples of countries in their development of corporate social responsibility. The foundation, established by ASEAN to help reduce socioeconomic disparities, is currently pushing the CSR cause in its member nations. Certainly, many companies are […]
Year End Reflections
Charities Say Companies Wanting To Support Them Should Offer Funding and Access From: jketchell@cafonline.org Whilst charities welcome all types of support, they most value `core funding’, `funding for specific projects’, `access to business networks’ and `gifts in kind’; such as free venues. However, more than two thirds of the charities surveyed do not believe that […]
