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Searching with a thematic focus on Corporate Social Responsibility, Citizen participation and stakeholder involvement

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  Corporate social responsibility as risk management

  Corporate Social Responsibility Initiative [Harvard University], 2005

  This paper develops a conceptual framework for companies to manage the emerging social risks they encounter as they go global, and of the contribution of corporate social responsibility (CSR) programmes to managing those risks.The paper highlights that:global companies face a new reality that has changed the nature of risk and risk management: networked operations and global value chain
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  Europe and North Asia FLEG: a key task for civil society

  Fern, 2004

  Against the background of the first Ministerial Conference on Europe and North Asia Forest Law Enforcement and Governance (ENA-FLEG) which will take place during 2005, this briefing note aims to provide the first step in engaging all actors, particularly environmental and social NGOs, in this crucial regional process, both by raising key issues and by making critical information accessible as earl
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  Participatory social auditing: a practical guide to developing a gender-sensitive approach

  Institute of Development Studies UK, 2004

  This paper explores a participatory approach to codes of labour practice. It presents an overview of the characteristics of such an approach, and contrasts them with "snapshot" social auditing.
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  Corporate accountability to the poor?: assessing the effectiveness of community-based strategies

  Institute of Development Studies UK, 2004

  This paper investigates how, when and why community-based strategies are effective in promoting corporate accountability to the poor.
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  Ethical trade in African horticulture: gender, rights and participation

  Ethical Trade and Natural Resources Programme, NRI, 2004

  Codes of conduct for ethical trade have been criticised for failing to consider gender issues or extend to temporary workers. In response, this paper explores ways to develop codes that are effective and inclusive of all workers, including female and temporary workers.
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  Battling for corporate accountability:experiences from the titanium mining campaign in Kwale, Kenya

  Participation Group, IDS, 2002

  This paper argues that transnational corporation ventures ought to factor in and mainstream accountability at the early stages of a project, implying that corporate accountability is a process to be nurtured over time. It also outlines a role for civil society actors as being instrumental in creating spaces for engagement with diverse stakeholders.
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  Trickle-down, trickle-up or puddle?: participatory value chains analysis for pro-poor enterprise development

  Enterprise Development Impact Assessment Information Service, 2003

  This paper provides a practical guide to value chains analysis, and how it can be used as part of participatory processes for strategic learning and ongoing accountability within and between enterprise sectors.
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  Empowering The Community: Information Strategies For Pollution Control

  New Ideas in Pollution Regulation, World Bank, 1998

  Disclosure strategies, which involve public and/or private attempts to increase the availability of information on pollution, form the basis for what some have called the third wave in pollution control policy (after legal regulation--the first wave--and market-based instruments --the second wave).
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  Ethical trade and agricultural standards: getting people to talk.

  Natural Resources Institute, UK, 1999

  The emergence of ethical trade, and particularly ethical sourcing involving the commercial mainstream, creates an opportunity to transform the value chain between Southern producers and Northern consumers into a values chain that improves the quality of life in developing countries.At present, there is too little information to assess whether the implementation of codes, that are currently the
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  Exporting corruption: privatisation, multinationals and bribery

  The Corner House, UK, 2000

  Deals with the globalisation of corruption. The article suggests that if corruption is growing throughout the world, it is largely a result of the rapid privatisation (and associated practices of contracting-out and concessions) of public enterprises worldwide.

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