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Updated October 15, 2002
Archive
of Meetings that have taken place in ******* The
Americas Conference on Corporate Social Responsibility -
Alliances for Development The First Hemispheric Meeting on
Corporate Social Responsibility was held in Miami on September
22 - 24th, 2002, under the auspices of Inter-American
Development Bank (IDB), the Organization of American States
(OAS) and the World Bank. The Conference took place in compliance
with a mandate adopted at the Third Summit of the Americas and
resolution GA/RES. 1871 (XXXII-O/02), "Promotion of the
Corporate Social Responsibility in the Hemispheric"
adopted at the General Assembly in Bridgetown, Barbados.
The Conference was attended by nearly 500
representatives from the private sector, multilateral
institutions, academia, government, civil society and the
media. In 12 sessions spanning over two days, 84 speakers took
the floor. Thirty-two countries participated in this
conference, 25 of them were from the region.
50 % of the participants were women. The General Secretary of the OAS, César
Gaviria; the IDB President, Enrique V. Iglesias; the President
of Nicaragua, Enrique Bolaños; the US State Sub-secretary for
the Western Hemisphere, Otto Reich; the vice-president of the
World Bank for Latin America and the Caribbean, David de
Ferranti; the executive vice-president Peter Woicke; and the
Director for Latin America and the Caribbean of the
International Financial Corporation, Bernard Paquier, among
others, participated in the conference.
Participants discussed building alliances for local and
community economic development with civil society through new
philanthropy and volunteerism; the business as a role model
for business; the role of supranational organizations; and the
media. The conference organizers noted that by
mobilizing the synergies between different sectors of society,
the conference participants laid down the foundations for a
closer relationship, particularly with the business sector, to
face social problems and fight poverty in the region. For more information, please click here: http://www.iadb.org/csramericas/ For a detailed report on this meeting, please click here. Meeting of
the Working Group on Probity and Public Ethics On April 11, 2002, the OAS - Working Group on Probity and Public Ethics held a Special Session on Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) in Washington. The Session gave Permanent Representatives and alternates of the 34 Member States a better understanding of what CSR is and why is it important to the Summit of the Americas mandate. Through presentations from CSR practitioners from Canada, USA, Peru and Ecuador and through Member States contributions, the participants learned about what the private sector is already doing in the region and gained a good understanding of how government can be supportive of CSR. The Session was successful in solidifying Member States support for the upcoming CSR conference in Miami. Updated October 15, 2002 |