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BUSINESS IN DEVELOPMENT - CHALLENGE 2007
Deadline - 31st May 2007
Win upto 240000 Euros of prize money
For more details click here
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SA 8000 LEAD AUDITOR COURSE
KARACHI - 22-25 February 2006
In Collaboration with RBI -
Responsible Business Initiative |
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The 4-day
course is for management system auditors, consultants, compliance managers,
NGOs, trade unions, government, academia, and provides training in the
background and interpretation of SA8000 for reliable auditing,
implementation and maintenance of the standard. The course comprises
interactive exercises, participatory development of action plans,
'role-play' situations and case studies, concluding with a 2-hour
examination. Students who pass are eligible for Social Systems Auditor (SA)
certification through Social Accountability International. Course materials,
refreshments & lunch included.
For
registration contact RBI in Lahore at +92-42-6665642, +92-42-6672515
Ambreen
Waheed +92-3008461451, Maryum Farhan +92-3334431602
Email:-
rbicoordinator@gmail.com
, coordinator@rbipk.org
You can
also DOWNLOAD the application form. Please Click
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Eminent businessmen and members
of the Multan Chamber of Commerce and Industry attended 4th Symposium on
Social Standards |
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The
Round Table group in association with Responsible Business Initiative
organized the 4th GTZ AVE Awareness Symposium on Minimum Social
Standards at Multan Chamber of Commerce and Industry. The symposium targeted
on the textile industry specifically, engaging textile businessmen to share
their views about prevalent industry trends in social compliance, compliance
issues and impediments in implementation. Issues relating to working
conditions, wages, work hours, child labor abolition, social security
arrangements for the workers, health care facilities and treatment of women
workers were discussed.
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general discussion about unfair treatment of suppliers by the international
buyer also ensued. Businessmen put forth problems faced by them due to
unjustified conditions imposed on them by international buyers resulting in
loss of business. Social compliance is one such condition, costing a lot and
when translated in the product price is unacceptable to the buyer. The buyer
then switches business to other countries offering fewer prices even on a
difference of a few cents. They urged GTZ and AVE to convey to international
buyers that they should stay true to their word and respect hidden costs of
compliance borne by the suppliers.
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Triple Bottom Line Investing Conference 2005, November 2-3-4, Frankfurt, Germany |
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Triple Bottom Line Investing Conference is the world's largest international learning and networking event dealing with sustainable investment. During this three-day event, the latest developments on screening, auditing, reporting, SRI analysis, corporate citizenship, indexes and research will be covered. Anyone involved in the financial sector should attend. Responsible Business Initiative is a part of the Network Sponsors for this conference.
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| EFMD and UN Global Compact ready to launch
strategic initiative with Pakistan’s RBI
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17th October 2005 – The European Foundation for Management Development and the United Nations Global Compact announced the worldwide launch today of the Globally Responsible Leadership (GRL) Initiative, a strategic coalition to groom the next generation of globally responsible business leaders who can responsibly and successfully handle global challenges. EFMD’s President Ray van Schaik said, “Global responsibility is the new necessity for companies. This will not create a society of goodies or softies, but one in which a more acceptable but still effective business community can exist.”
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| 10th International
Business Forum - Globally Responsible Companies |
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RBI's
Executive Director Participated in the 10th International Business Forum
with the theme "BUsiness and Millennium Development Goals: An Active Role
for Globally Responsible Companies".This was held from 11 to 13 September
2005 at Helen & Martin Kimmel Center at New York University, New York
City. Over 210 participant organizations represented themselves in this
event. Key issues discussed in this forum were to move from Corporate
Social Responsibility to a more wide direction of global social
responsibility,making businesses work for global development and solve the
international issues and problems.
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| State of Corporate Social Responsibility in Pakistan - Research Study by RBI, SECP & UNDP, (September 2005)
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RBI – Asia Pacific CSR Center in collaboration with SECP and UNDP took the initiative to judge the state of CSR in Pakistan. The objective of this study is to support SECP’s evidence-based CSR strategy process. This research covers all major industry sectors across the country and the findings are supposed to form the basis of a CSR Strategy. We are confident that the CSR Strategy emerging from this exercise will reflect the perceptions and expectations of our industry and help position Pakistan well in a global trade environment where CSR has come to be a key variable of competitiveness. An Apex Consultancy on CSR was held as a continuation of this research on 26th September 2005 at Pearl Continental, Lahore. Final version of the report will be shortly published by SECP.
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| Asian Forum on Corporate Social Responsibility - September 2005 - RBI ORGANIZING PARTNER
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The fourth annual Asian Forum on Corporate Social Responsibility will be held on September 8 and 9, 2005, at the Hilton Hotel in Jakarta, Indonesia. Responsible Business Initiative will be the official organizing partner for this international forum.
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Well renowned CSR experts are speaking on this Forum. Two of RBI’s Executives are invited speaker on this occasion. RBI Executive Director is also On the Judging panel of CSR Awards to be announced during this conference.
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| This year’s theme is "Exploring CSR Strategies for Business: How the right strategy for CSR can make business more effective." The conference is to be a two-day affair featuring the integration of a) plenary sessions addressed by keynote speakers, b) special interest sessions that focus on specific dynamics, learning’s and best practices of companies, c) an expo/trade show featuring specific company CSR programs, and d) optional field visits to innovative CSR program sites in and around the host city. |
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| RBI coordinates the 1st Symposium on Social Standards for Suppliers Exporting to Europe
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First Symposium of the series was held in Karachi on 31st July 2005. The focus was on the social standards for the suppliers exporting to Europe. Apart from the chairman Export Promotion Bureau, Tariq Ikram, participants representing exporters, buying houses, auditing companies, government departments, labour unions and NGOs, attended this event hosted by GTZ-German Technical Cooperation and Responsible Business Initiative-Asia Pacific CSR Centre. Resource-persons for the Karachi symposium were CSR Consulting Network and Bureau Veritas.
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| GTZ-AVE National Business Standards Roundtable – RBI ORGANIZING PARTNER
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GTZ, in partnership with AVE, the Foreign Trade Association of German Retail Trade, is in the process of organizing a forum where Pakistani businessmen and stakeholders can interact with their European counterparts and directly address issues of supply chain integrity and social responsibility. One awareness workshop and the 1st Round Table Meeting in this connection was organized in Karachi respectively in September 2004 and January 2005 which were attended by almost the same organizations who were invited to participate in the 2nd Round Table Meeting held in Lahore on June 2, 2005. This second Round Table meeting was the next or third step needed for the implementation of the project. As a follow up, there will be 1 more such Round Table meeting till October 2005 and afterwards the task of organization and coordination of round table meetings will be handed over to one or several local organization(s). Handing over to national ownership will secure the continuation of the round tables in the long term. Round table sessions are convened as and when needed. In general they are expected to take place about four times a year.
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| Asia-Pacific Business Forum 2005 - Changes, Challenges, and Opportunities for Asia and the Pacific
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The Asia-Pacific Business Forum 2005 was held on 13-15 May in Bangkok, Thailand. More than 300 business leaders, representatives of governments, international organizations, civil society and academics took part in discussions:
"How to create an enabling business climate and how to promote corporate social responsibility in the region".
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| Asian forum on CSR - RBI OFFICIAL PARTNER ORGANIZATION
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RBI was an official partner organization - for the 2nd year running - of the Asian Forum on Corporate Social Responsibility:
"Asia's Foremost Conference & Expo on CSR". 2-3 September 2004, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
This year's Asian CSR Awards were presented during the conference RBI’s Founder & Executive Director, Ms Ambreen Waheed served as a Judge for the awards. |
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| RBI Partners with the “Globally Responsible Leaders” initiative of EFMD and Global Compact
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RBI Join Hands with the Globally Responsible Leaders program, a joint Initiative of European Foundation for Management and Development and Global Compact. The aim of this initiative is to mainstream Corporate Social Responsibility in Business Schools by involving Business in such a way that the graduates who come out are having a greater sense of Global Responsibility. Other members for this International collation are world Class Business schools like, INSEAD, LBS, Queens University and Top Business like IBM, Barloworld and PetroBrass. |
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| RBI – JOINT ORGANIZER G-ForSe 2004
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Global Forum for Sports and Environment (G-ForSE 2004) was held in Perl Continental Lahore from 24th to 26th November. It featured different panel discussions addressing various themes relevant to sports and the environment. Panel discussions brought together the representatives of the sporting goods industry, UNEP, nationalized and private industries and NPOs to discuss issues relating to “corporate environmental responsibility.”
Ambreen Waheed, CEO of Responsible Business Initiative (RBI) pointed out the success stories in Pakistan, namely the positive and decisive way in which Sialkot, one of the world’s major sporting goods manufacturing centers, has dealt with the issue of child labor and maintains high awareness regarding corporate social responsibility. |
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| Sialkot’s First Social Auditor Training to Prepare Local Industry Inspectors for Emerging WTO Challenges.
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Responsible Business Initiative (RBI), Pakistan’s internationally affiliated citizen-sector organization that promotes ethical behaviour among businesses launches first accredited training programme on SA8000, the global workplace standard administered by Social Responsibility International (SAI), New York.
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| ASIAN CSR GROUP LAUNCHED – RBI PAKISTAN FOUNDER-MEMBER
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RBI represented Pakistan as Founder-Member of the Asia-Pacific CSR Group, a new 9-country Asia-Pacific network on corporate responsibility. This unique new initiative was launched at a special conference with the Social Venture Network-Asia on 12 July 2004 in Singapore.
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| First Asia Pacific CSR Seminar Series & Social Venture Network Asia Conference
Monday 12 - Tuesday 13 July 2004, Singapore. |
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| Workshop on TBL Implementation
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| RBI presented the concept
of UNIDO's Triple Bottom Line(TBL) and its benefits to the
corporate sector, in a workshop in Sri Lanka. The workshop was
on the implementation of TBL as a path to Corporate Social
Responsibility(CSR). Ambreen Waheed, Executive Director of RBI
also conducted a group excercise on stakeholder identification
for the participants of the workshop. The event was organized
by Small and Medium Enterprise Development(SMED) and National
Cleaner Production Center, Sri Lanka. |
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| The workshop was held in
Colombo, Sri Lanka from May 24-26, 2004. |
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| G-ForSE 2004 Preliminary
Meeting |
| RBI organized the 2004
preliminary meeting of the Global Forum for Sports and
Environment (G-ForSE). The forum brings together between 250
to 300 participants from international sport organizations,
sport events organizers, sport facilities managers, sporting
goods manufacturers as well as other sport and environment
stakeholders to discuss the impact and contributions to the
environment. United Nations Environmental Program (UNEP) and
Global Sports Alliance (GSA) are the major stakeholders of the
forum. |
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| The meeting was held in
Pearl Continental Lahore on Monday, March 08, 2004.
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| The GRI Round Table Conference.
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| RBI represented Pakistan
in the February 2004 round table conference of Global
Reporting Initiative (GRI). The meeting was held in Hong Kong
and comprised delegates from business concerns and governments
around the globe. The agenda of the meeting was to review
GRI's reporting guidelines with reference to the asian
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| ANOTHER SUCCESSFUL COURSE
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| Following on the
footsteps of its successful Lead Auditor course held earlier,
RBI teamed up with SAI to run the country’s first Advanced
Auditor course in Lahore from 14-16 February 2004. Led by
Badri Gulur, CEO, Asia-Pacific Amana Switzerland assisted by
Ambreen Waheed and Johannes Lokollo, the course was attended
by representatives of certification bodies, independent
consultants from Pakistan and Bangladesh and nominees of RBI.
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| Previously, there was a
4-day regular course from February 10 - 13. Both the courses
were for management system auditors, consultants, compliance
managers, NGOs, trade unions, government, academia, and
provided training in the background and interpretation of
SA8000 for reliable auditing, implementation and maintenance
of the standard. The regular course comprised interactive
exercises, participatory development of action plans,
'role-play' situations and case studies, concluding with a
2-hour examination. Students who pass are eligible for Social
Systems Auditor (SA) certification through SAI. |
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