وقعت منظمة «اليونيدو» مذكرة تفاهم مشترك مع الجمعية البحرينية للمسئولية الاجتماعية وذلك لاستضافة مؤتمر بعنوان «المسئولية الاجتماعية للشركات والعالم اليوم» في مايو/ أيار 2013 والذي سيقام في فندق كراون بلازا البحرين.

ويأتي هذا المؤتمر في إطار استقطاب خبراء المسئولية الاجتماعية للشركات والمندوبين…

For many consumers, quality and price are no longer the only considerations when shopping. The way companies source their materials and treat their workers has increasingly become more important. Gundeep Singh, the chief executive and founder of The Change Initiative, a sustainable shop that opened in Dubai this year, speaks about how ethical shopping became…

As a senior executive at a major European bank's Middle East and North Africa (Mena) division, Philippe Vollot has been involved in quite a few important deals.

But he is particularly proud of a programme that tracks the migration patterns of hawksbill turtles.

For in addition to acting as chief operating officer at Deutsche Bank Mena, he is also the chairman of the Middle East Foundation, the bank's corporate social responsibility (CSR) arm, which sponsors the…

Informa Life Sciences Exhibitions, organisers of the annual Arab Health Exhibition and Congress, has introduced a new category to the upcoming Arab Health Innovation and Achievement Awards The Sustainable Hospital Award.

This event will also include eight other award categories including…

Dubai’s quest to become a global centre of excellence, innovation and leadership has been ably supported by the Dubai Quality Group (DQG), which has brought many organisations under one umbrella to establish new benchmarks of quality.



A recent meeting hosted by the DQG saw a large participation of top officials from a number of organisations that have been applauded for introducing quality practices in various sectors, prominent among which are education, health, human resources and…

Many companies attribute a staggering 63 percent of their market value to reputation, according to Steve Hamilton-Clark, CEO of TNS MENA.



He said that in today’s fast news-driven environment, building and maintaining a strong corporate reputation is essential not only to protect business but also for sustained growth. 



"Managing this intangible but important asset called corporate reputation generates market confidence, and can help fuel a…

The ICDL GCC Foundation, the governing body and certification authority advocating computer competency across the GCC and Iraq for all, today underlined its support for Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) initiatives. Being the regional arm for ECDL Foundation, a non-for-profit organization dedicated to promulgating digital competency for all the world's citizens, ICDL GCC Foundation has been mandated to carry out…

As businesses flourish, communities prosper and it is important that corporates give back to the society at large.

In a new initiative, Al Ghurair teamed up with the Dubai Chamber of Commerce and Industry to promote community-based initiatives.

Essa Al Ghurair, vice chairman of Al Ghurair and a stalwart of the UAE trade and commerce, said business should do more to address social issues. A recent survey by Dubai Chamber showed that 60 per cent of Dubai businesses…

تم عقد اجتماع مشترك ضم الغرير وغرفة التجارة والصناعة بدبي في إطار اجتماعات شبكة غرفة دبي للاستدامة. واكد عيسى الغرير نائب رئيس الغرير - المعروفة أيضا باسم الغرير للاستثمار أن الوقت قد حان لقطاع الأعمال أن يرد الجميل الى المجتمع من خلال ممارسة المسؤولية الاجتماعية للشركات.

وعلى القائمين على الشركات…

على الرغم من أن الدين الإسلامي يعتبر أكثر الأديان التي، رسخت مفهوم وتعزيز ثقافة المسؤولية الاجتماعية، غير أن هناك اعتقادا خاطئا لدى البعض، بأنه مفهوم إسلامي ارتبط فقط بالأعمال الخيرية، بما في ذلك الصدقات وغيرها من أعمال البر الخيرية، التي يقوم بها بعض المحسنين تجاه الفرد والمجتمع.

وفي…

PepsiCo, one of the world's largest food and beverage companies, has a long tradition in community service and corporate social responsibility.

In line with General Civil Aviation Authority (GCAA) efforts to undertake Social Corporate Responsibility initiatives, GCAA teamed up with UAE Genetic Disease Association (GDA) and signed an MoU to provide support to GDA’s activities in UAE, notably those evolving around preventing the occurrence of Thalassemia, a common genetic disorder in UAE.

The MoU was signed in GCAA’s Dubai…

Forget charity. Invigorated since the revolution, Egyptian social entrepreneurs are redefining development by using free market principles to help the poor. Some of them are even turning a profit. 

As an earnest young undergraduate at the American University in Cairo in 2002, Raghda El Ebrashi founded a service club to help uplift the poor. El Ebrashi, who was halfway through a business degree, began her endeavor like any good student. She…

في ظل الأوضاع الاقتصادية الصعبة التي يعانيها الأردنيون من شرائح مختلفة؛ خصوصا ذوي الدخل المحدود، ومع استمرار التأثيرات السلبية لظاهرتي البطالة والفقر على المجتمع، تظهر جلياً أهمية برامج المسؤولية الاجتماعية لشركات القطاع الخاص التي تنفذها منفردة أو بالشراكة مع القطاع العام، خصوصاً أن هذا المفهوم نشأ أصلاً لملامسة وتغطية احتياجات المجتمعات المحلية ومشاركة الشركات لهموم الناس ومشاكلهم.…

Chairman of the Executive Committee in Charity Committee for Orphans Care, HRH Prince Faisal bin Salman bin Abdulaziz, has cherished and commended STC's role in serving the community.

The Prince commended the telecom company in an acknowledgement letter that was sent to the Group CEO of STC, Dr.…

In an attempt to empower its CSR activities, Dr. Soliman Fakeeh Hospital (DSFH) became an Organizational Stakeholder for both the Global Reporting Initiatives and the United Nations Global Compact. Dr. Mazen Fakeeh, the Director General of DSFH mentioned “We express our commitment to support the ten principles of the United Nations Global Compact and to drive those principles within our sphere of influence.” Dr. Sherif Tehemar, the CSR Chairman added “We are intended to take all the…

رسم النهج الذي التزمته شركة التعدين العربية السعودية «معادن» في تفعيل وتطبيق مفهوم برامجها للمسؤولية الاجتماعية، مسارًا مغايرا لسلسلة المبادرات التي يرصدها المجتمع المحلي، انطلاقا من قدرتها على محاكاة خطط التنمية الاقتصادية المستدامة، لتحمل أهدافًا واضحة، واستراتيجيات معلنة تحت مظلة «المسؤولية الاجتماعية»، لتدرك بعيدًا عن التقليد مفهوم «السلوك المسؤول» الذي يُولّد قدرًا كبيرًا من القيمة لشركاء «معادن»،…

By Peter Salisbury

Given that 2012 has been a tumultuous year economically, following on from 12 months of political upheaval in the Middle East and North Africa, it is no surprise that a new form of accreditation being issued by the Dubai Chamber of Commerce has not attracted much attention.

Since December 2011, the chamber has been issuing businesses working in…

Rawabi Holding has turned out to be a company with a social conscience. The company has been operating in Saudi Arabia and the Middle East for over thirty years as one of the leading industrial players in the region, having activities in a diverse range of industries such as oil, gas, petrochemicals,…