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Silvopastoral Dairy Farming in Southern Colombia

Daniel Suarez, Nestle

Nestlé believes that for a business to be successful in the long term, it must create value not only for its shareholders but also for society, including farmers who play a vital role in local communities across the world. Nestlé calls this Creating Shared Value and focuses efforts in three key areas: nutrition, water, and rural development. more[...]

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Imagine What We Can Do Together: Randstad – VSO Partnership

Eveline Kramers, Randstad

“We strongly believe that companies have no reason to exist if they don’t add value to society,” says Ben Noteboom, CEO of Randstad Holding nv. “Our core activity, putting people to work, means improving people’s lives. But we want to do something extra. Working with development organization VSO (Voluntary Service Overseas) is a perfect match because we can help them select the right people, something we do every day. And: All of our employees can play a role in this partnership.” Randstad supports VSO financially, through in-kind donations and by providing expertise in recruitment & selection. Most importantly we stimulate our employees, who come from varied backgrounds -IT, HR, finance, etc.- to volunteer or raise awareness or funds for VSO. So far over 75 Randstad employees have volunteered with VSO in developing countries reaching thousands of beneficiaries. more[...] login_required

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Putting our skills to work in pursuit of the MDGs

Editorial Team

Our people are getting involved in hundreds of citizenship projects around the world, and our member firms are developing initiatives to suit their local communities and environments. By harnessing the skills we use every day and applying them to the world and communities around us, we can help make positive changes in our communities – locally and across the world. more[...]

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Putting our skills to work in pursuit of the MDGs

Lord Michael Hastings, KPMG International

Our people are getting involved in hundreds of citizenship projects around the world, and our member firms are developing initiatives to suit their local communities and environments. By harnessing the skills we use every day and applying them to the world and communities around us, we can help make positive changes in our communities – locally and across the world. more[...]

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Bringing the Work to the People

Why would Bangladeshis, of all people, make better entrepreneurs? Samantha Morshed of Dhaka, Bangladesh, the British CEO of nonprofit enterprise Hathay Bunano, has the best answer to her own question. Because the number of CEOs in Bangladesh is still rather small on the whole, Hathay Bunano has committed to creating sustainable rural employment. more[...] login_required

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Bringing the Work to the People

Gerd Pfitzenmeier

Why would Bangladeshis, of all people, make better entrepreneurs? Samantha Morshed of Dhaka, Bangladesh, the British CEO of nonprofit enterprise Hathay Bunano, has the best answer to her own question. Because the number of CEOs in Bangladesh is still rather small on the whole, Hathay Bunano has committed to creating sustainable rural employment. more[...]

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Good Agricultural Social Practice for Fruit and Vegetable Farming

Emma Arvidsson, Coop

Corporate social responsibility has become an emerging issue in global food supply chains. Partners involved in the food sector are challenged to find innovative and meaningful approaches to ensure that their agricultural products are produced in line with internationally agreed labor requirements such as the UN Global Compact Principles. more[...] login_required

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Our Commitment Against Child Labour in India

Andreas Streubig, Otto Group
Otto Group

Around the globe, some 300 million children aged between five and fourteen work. In India, 59 million children do not have the chance to go to school. Instead, most of them have to herd goats, crush rocks, collect rubbish, sew sequins onto textile articles, clean the houses of rich families, or do other menial jobs to survive. more[...] login_required

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Development

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Master Plan for Mauritius

Gerd Pfitzenmeier
Medine

Established on the island of Mauritius in 1911, Medine originally grew and processed sugar cane. But since then, the importance of tourism and other service areas has steadily grown. The ‘Fondation Medine Horizons’(FMH), which the company established for this purpose, promotes optimism and entrepreneurial self-help, states the GC report “Africa leads”. more[...] login_required

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Yemen Water and Sanitation Project

Jeff Flood, Nexen
Nexen

Nexen has been an active member of the UNGC since 2001. In 2005, Dr. Randy Gossen (V.P. Global Business Development - Nexen) was appointed Special Advisor to the UNGC. Nexen’s commitment to the UNGC is linked directly to our corporate philosophy of sustainability and in “doing the right thing”. Through our operations in Yemen, we have developed programmes that: 1) emphasize the hiring of Yemeni nationals and sustainable employment practices ; 2) support community investment and the development of schools, infrastructure and other projects, and; 3) the development of a water and sanitation project with the UNDP and CIDA. more[...] login_required

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Collaborating to conserve ecosystems and biodiversity

Stefanie Koch, Holcim
Rashila Tong, Holcim
Lafarge Holcim

Conserving ecosystems and stopping biodiversity loss is one of the major issues of our time, in particular in situations where industrial activities and population growth put increasing pressure on natural habitats. Believing that this issue can only be addressed by working together, leading building materials company Holcim and IUCN, the International Union for Conservation of Nature, have joined forces to effectively manage biodiversity conservation and to create biodiversity-based sustainable livelihoods. more[...] login_required

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When Water Becomes Sustainable Business

Carsten Bo Kvistgaard, Grundfos
Grundfos

By pairing existing technologies with an innovative business model, Grundfos LIFELINK responsibly changes the way of operating and managing rural water supply systems. more[...] login_required

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Hope Through Honey

Gerd Pfitzenmeier

“Fight poverty, maintain ecological equilibrium and so shape sustainable development.” These three clear goals are the essence of this truly mammoth project, Bhusan Shrestha says. The large Nepalese beekeeper Gandaki Bee Concern (GBC) wants to make money and at the same time bring progress to the small Asian country in the Himalayas. The company, founded in 1990 in the capital Kathmandu, wants to do no less than help more and more Nepalese “gain a source of income and at the same time conserve the quality of nature for the future.” more[...] login_required

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Coop Naturaline – Fashion & Fairness

Emma Arvidsson, Coop
Simona Matt, Coop
Coop

In close partnership with Remei AG, Coop ensures organic cotton production, ecological processing and fair working conditions along the entire textile supply chain. This is guaranteed by strict independent controls. more[...] login_required

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