14 March 2009 Business Recorder
A presentation on ‘CSR in Times of Recession – Experience from IBLF Companies’ will be made at an internal workshop, being organised by the Aga Khan Development Network (AKDN) here on March 17. The International Business Leaders Forum (IBLF), UK, is partnering with the AKDN for this initiative, and two of its senior staff–Ms Amanda Bowman, Director, Corporate Partner Engagement, and Rafal Serafin, Director, The Planning Initiative, will be here for the workshop.
In April 2006, the AKDN had launched a pilot civil society program in eight countries, including Pakistan, to build capacity of civil society organisations in each of these countries to enable them to contribute in a better way to improve the quality of life.
One of the key objectives of this program is to develop better understanding on the part of business about the usefulness of Corporate Social Responsibility (CRS). This includes activities designed to foster strong and effective collaboration between the business sector and civil society to encourage businesses to strengthen their CSR approaches, and to encourage business association to promote CSR.
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