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    Social responsibility agreements in Ghana’s forestry sector

    International Institute for Environment and Development, 2008
    In Ghana, legislation requires logging firms to commit a portion of their financial resources towards the provision of social amenities to local forest communities. Logging firms must perform this legal obligation by signing and implementing “Social Responsibility Agreements” (SRAs) with forest communities.
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    Sustainable forest standards in relation to small timber growers: lessons from KwaZulu Natal

    Natural Resources Institute, UK, 2008
    This policy paper sets out the relevance of social and environmental standards for small-scale timber growers. It focuses on the development of the National Forest Standards currently being developed by the South African Government .
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    Asia: overview of corporate governance frameworks in 2007.

    OECD Development Centre, 2007
    This paper presents a comparative table containing a comparative overview of the corporate governance frameworks in 13 Asian economies. The table is primarily based on information provided by experts in the respective economies. The information in the table is valid as of December 2006. Topical areas covered by the table are:
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    Sustainability standards and coffee exports from Tanzania

    Danish Institute for International Studies, 2008
    One of the key trends characterising the agro-food trade in the last two decades has been the increasing complexity of public and private standards that are applied to imports into developed countries. This paper aims to identify critical areas to facilitate compliance with sustainability standards in coffee, which is the major traditional export crop for Tanzania.
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    Business and human rights: the evolving international agenda

    John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, 2007
    The state-based system of global governance has struggled for more than a generation to regulate the expanding reach and growing influence of transnational corporations. This paper reviews two recent chapters of this effort, focused especially on human rights:
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    Shamed and able: how firms respond to information disclosure

    John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, 2007
    This paper suggests that as national governments lose the ability to regulate activities of business, interest groups and concerned citizens are turning to private governance for its regulation. The rise of private governance has generated a demand for corporate social performance information and ratings to reduce information imbalances between firms and other stakeholders.
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    Rights-compatible grievance mechanisms: a guidance tool for companies and their stakeholders

    John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, 2008
    This document provides guidance for effective grievance mechanisms in the context of corporate social responsibility. It provides a tool for companies and their local stakeholders to work out rights-compatible, effective grievance mechanisms integrating human rights norms and standards into its processes.
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    The corporate climate communications report 2007

    CorporateRegister.com, 2008
    Using Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) reports published between September 2006 and December 2007 by Global FT500 companies as a basis, this report examines corporate climate communications. The intention is not to document or benchmark performance, but to contrast disclosures across business sectors and regions, and to examine mitigation measures taken to give new insights into the issues.
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    Sustainability reporting in the food processing sector

    Global Reporting Initiative, 2008
    Following the global trend in environmental awareness, paired with heightened consumer consciousness, food companies are increasingly facing new expectations and seeking to proactively communicate the economic, social and environmental performance of their businesses.
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    A Code of conduct for the natural stone sector.

    India Committee of the Netherlands, 2007
    In the last decade there has been a growing interest in the improvement of sustainability performance throughout supply chains. However, this report argues that sustainability standards for the quarrying and processing of natural stone and natural stone products in developing countries needs to be lifted to a higher level.

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