• Contributing to SDGs by Fulfilling our Social Vision

    CSR-Office Manila Doctors Hospital
    Manila Doctors Hospital

    Since the inception and launching of its Social Vision in 2012, Manila Doctors Hospital has proven that profitability and investing significantly in social responsibility programs can be done harmoniously and productively.  more[...]

    The Author
     
  • Keeping Hope Afloat

    MAN SE

    Africa Mercy is the world’s largest civilian hospital ship and offers much-needed medical help to thousands of people in developing countries every year.  more[...]

    The Author
     
  • MOSTADAM: More Than Just Finance

    Perihan Abdel Ghaly, Arab African International Bank
    Maha Hasebou, Arab African International Bank
    Arab African International Bank

    Since 2004, privatization and economic reforms in Egypt, especially in the banking sector, have spurred active engagement and responsibility toward communities and in the country at large. The banking sector’s current capacity and capital remain significant when comparing its role in social and environment development. The Arab African International Bank (AAIB)’s experience offers a successful trendsetting model concerning the role of banks in affecting the growth of new industries and the economy at large.  more[...]

    The Author
     
  • CSR in Africa

    Editorial Team

    For many years Africa is the hotspot for hunger and conflicts. But besite all these troubles ether is also a change for change and hope arising. More countries become aware of the ptential CSR has and include corporate responsibility as a fundanetla brickstone for developing citizenship. Our special illustrates variuos aspects.  more[...]

    The Author
    Editorial Team
     
  • CSR in South Africa

    Editorial Team

    Professor Ralph Hamann is Research Director for the Graduate School of Business at the University of Cape Town. His areas of expertise include Corporate Citizenship and Corporate Social Responsibility. In 2006 he was involved as a researcher at the UN Global Compact Learning Forum, which took place in Ghana. For the UN Global Compact International Yearbook, Hamann highlights the “paradox for CSR in South Africa” and beyond.  more[...]

    The Author
    Editorial Team
     
  • The Author
     
  • Renewed Energy for Women’s Empowerment

    Ernest Harsch, Africa Renewal

    Nomcebo Manzini is a busy woman. As the regional director for southern Africa and the Indian Ocean islands of the UN’s recently created Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women – officially known as UN Women – she is constantly on the road from one country to another, addressing public gatherings, attending conferences, and strategizing with government officials and women activists alike. Africa Renewal’s managing editor, Ernest Harsch, was fortunate to catch Ms. Manzini at her home in Johannesburg, South Africa, in late March 2011, during a brief stopover in her travels.  more[...]

    The Author
    Ernest Harsch, Africa Renewal 
     
  • The UN Global Compact in Africa

    Editorial Team

    Different activities regarding the UN Global Compact are described in selected countries, like Nigeria, Kenya, Uganda, Ghana and South Africa. The main topics are renewable energy resources and biodiversity, human rights and anti-corruption.  more[...]

    The Author
    Editorial Team
     
  • Good Practices

    Editorial Team

    There are three cases of Good Practices regarding CSR in Africa: Cotton Made in Africa, the World Cocoa Foundation and Sustainable Energy Africa.  more[...]

    The Author
    Editorial Team
     
  • Africa’s Natural Assets: The Struggle for Sustainability

    Fred Nelson, Maliasili Initiatives

    During the past decade, African countries have experienced a widespread economic boom, six of the world’s ten fastest-growing countries have been African, and in eight of the past ten years, Africa has grown faster than East Asia. The rate of foreign investment has soared to almost tenfold in this period.  more[...]

    The Author
    Fred Nelson, Maliasili Initiatives 
     
  • Corporate Governance: The Way to Sustainable Finance

    Perihan Abdel Ghaly, Arab African International Bank
    Arab African International Bank

    Arab African International Bank (AAIB) firmly believes that the road to impactful corporate governance entails values that achieve sustainable businesses as an end goal – AAIB seeks to maintain the balance between economic growth, profitability, and environmental, social, and governance (ESG) concerns.  more[...]

    The Author
     
  • UNEP Studies Show Rising Mercury Emissions in Developing Countries

    United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)

    Communities in developing countries are facing increasing health and environmental risks linked to exposure to mercury, according to new studies by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). Parts of Africa, Asia and South America could see increasing emissions of mercury into the environment, due mainly to the use of the toxic element in small-scale gold mining, and through the burning of coal for electricity generation.  more[...]

    The Author
     
  • Mercury: Time to Act

    Editorial Team

    This report speaks directly to governments involved in the development of the global treaty on mercury. It presents updates from the UNEP Global Mercury Assessment 2013 in short and punchy facts and figures backed by compelling graphics, that provide governments and civil society with the rationale and the imperative to act on this notorious pollutant.  more[...]

    The Author
    Editorial Team
     
  • Dangerous tales: Dominant narratives on the Congo and their unintended consequences

    Prof Séverine Autesserre, Columbia University

    Life conditions in the eastern part of the Democratic Republic of Congo have deteriorated significantly since the end of the transition to peace and democracy in late 2006. Each year, the people of the eastern provinces feel less secure than the year before. [1] There were more people internally displaced in 2010 than at the end of 2006. [2] Armed groups, including the Congolese army, relentlessly commit horrific violations of human rights. The Congo has dropped twenty places (from 167 to 187) in the Index of Human Development, officially becoming the least developed country on earth.[3] Overall, current conditions for the populations of the eastern Congo remain among the worst in Africa.  more[...]

    The Author
    Prof Séverine Autesserre, Columbia University 
     
 
 
 
 

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