AmCham Moldova and U.S. Embassy in Moldova held Corporate Social Responsability Week

AmCham Moldova and U.S. Embassy in Moldova held Corporate Social Responsability Week

• 27.09.2011

Chisinau, September 27, 2011. During the Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) week AmCham Moldova and U.S. Embassy to Moldova organized a series of events dedicated to business community and civil society organizations, with focus on the most efficient practices and tools for the CSR projects development.

Thus, there were developed a series of activities with focus on the importance of the responsible social developed businesses, among which: meetings with business environment and civil society representatives about partnerships, tools and recommendations for developing efficient CSR activities. The activities were developed under different formats, like charitable acts, round tables, and workshops.

Therefore, the CSR Committee within AmCham Moldova launched the first course of English language for visually impaired youth. The course consists of 100 hours of English, offered for free to ten young visually impaired people.

Business community and civil society organizations were informed about the tools and recommendations on how to create deeper partnerships between both parties, by contributing skills, resources and expertise, within the round table “How can Business – NGO partnerships add value to Corporate Social Responsibility”. The speakers at the round table were Maryna Saprykina, Head of the Center of CSR Development, Ukraine, who delivered a speech on “How much does Business – NGO partnership cost” and Jane Madden, Executive Vice President, Director, CSR & Sustainability, Chicago, with the speech on "How to build and sustain partnerships that deliver win – win results."

“NGOs and the private sector partners exchanged ideas and strategies that lead to more sustained commitment to the partnership from both sides, discussed on “Best Practices” of partnerships between business and civil society throughout the world, explored the possibilities to create win – win partnerships, identified strategies for minimizing risk and conflict, etc”, stated Elena Buzu, Coordinator of the AmCham CSR Committee.

The CRS Week was concluded with an workshop, at the American Resource Center, within which business community, civil society organizations representatives and CSR experts discussed on “US best practices: tools and recommendations”.

CSR Week was organized by AmCham Moldova and U.S. Embassy to Moldova on September 19 – 23 week, with participation of business community, civil society organizations representatives. It was aimed at promoting the importance of using social responsible practices among the business community, but also a more active involvement of civil society to successfully implement the best practices of CSR in the Republic of Moldova.

For further details, please, contact: tel: (+373) 22 211 781, e-mail: milamalairau@amcham.md, Mila Malairau, Executive Director AmCham Moldova.

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Corporate Social Responsibility is a concept that encourages companies to take into consideration interests of the society by assuming their responsibility for the impact that company’s activities have over the community, customers, employees, shareholders and environment. This commitment goes beyond the statutory obligations to observe the legislation and represents some voluntary actions for the improvement of living standards of the employees and their families, as well as of the community and society as a whole.