Friday, Oct. 27th, 2006
• 8:30am –10:30am Breakout Session III
Exploring the Links Between Business and Poverty Reduction
Globalization and the presence of Western-based multinational companies in developing countries have an impact on the economic status of poor people. This session considers company initiatives that aim to benefit poor people directly and help move them out of poverty.
Speakers
Mr. Frank van der Valk, Strategic Advisor, Oxfam Novib
Mr. Yeung Hau Man, Senior Advisor of LESS, Board Member of ICO
Female Workers and Empowerment: Promoting Sustainable Development in China
Many CSR issues affect women in distinct and important ways to reach the Millennium Declaration to promote gender equality and eradicate extreme poverty in China. This session present how the transnational corporations and civil society organizations performances in the issue.
Speakers
Ms. ZHANG HongAssistant Professor of Colby College, USA, Chairperson of Oversea Chinese Women Study Association
Ms. XIE LihuaDeputy chief editor /Secretary General, China Women Daily/ Rural Women
Ms. GUO JianmeiExecutive Director, Women’s Law Studies & Legal Aid Center, Peking University
Striking a Balance: CSR and Public Policy
Companies and stakeholder groups have to come to see both the opportunities and challenges inherent in their approaches to CSR and public policy. While more companies realize that their approaches to CSR can’t succeed without a supportive policy framework, their influence on policy is something that undermines their stated commitment to CSR.
Speakers
Mr. Matthew Moody Consul, Political & Economic, British Consulate General Guangzhou
Mr Brian HoProject Manager, CSR Asia
Mr. Ben GunnCSR-China Map
• 10:30am –10:15am Break
• 10:15am –12:15pm Breakout Session IV
Multi-stakeholders Standards: The Better Mechanisms for Accountability ?
There are more than 1000 voluntary private standards to manage companies’ CSR practices in the world, but different groups also criticize companies lack transparency and accountability in their supply chain management. Therefore, more and more multi-stakeholders standards emerged in last 10 years. Do they really matter? Do they create value and encourage innovative or better performance? Given the proliferation of competing principles for accountability, this session will consider whether and how external standards achieve their desire effect.
Speakers
Mr. Kelvin Ho Compliance manager, CSCC Asia
Mr Andreas MunchCSR manager Asia, TUV Rheinland Hong Kong Ltd
Developing Human Capital and Workers’ Education
The rapid growth of the Chinese economy has brought rewards to both labor and capital, but there remains a huge gap between the abilities of the Chinese educational system and the demands of the market place. What is the result for factories when the labor force is made up largely of young, untrained peasants? Most factory owners propose this as one of the greatest challenges to their operation. Vocational education experts from Beijing University and Hong Kong Chinese Language University join representatives from companies responsible for its practical implementation to investigate the problem and its possible solutions.
Speakers
Dr Li MinghuaAssociate Professor, East China Normal University
Ms. Cecilia SHISouth China Corporate Responsibility Manager, Nike, Inc
Partnering With the Business Sector: NGO Innovative Action in China
Innovators from NGOs in China discuss what has made their projects and partnerships with the business sector so successful. Two leading NGOs in China and one consulting company share their experiences how to develop partnerships between NGO and business sector.
Speakers
Dr. Berthold KUHN Visiting Professor of NGO Research Center, Tsinghua University
Mr Reza HasmathResearch Assistant, ActionAid International China
Ms. Felicia PullamAssociate Director of Corporate Responsibility, APCO Worldwide Inc.
• 12:15am–13:50pm Lunch
• 14:00pm–15:45pm Plenary Panel II
Responding to the Opportunities and Challenges
The problems faced instituting CSR in China are central to its development, since they involve aspects of far-reaching economic, societal, governmental and environmental issues. To discover methods for solving these problems, experts from China and overseas, including government officials and scholars with contrasting viewpoints, will discuss possible solutions.
Speakers
Mr. Heinz D. KoeppeSenior Advisor, EU Foreign Trade Association/BSCI
Prof. Takaji HishiyamaPrincipal, Center for Corporate Behavior (Japan)
Ms. Wang LinSocial Manager, IKEA Trading Asia
• 15:45pm–16:00pm Break
• 16:00pm–17:30pm Closing Plenary
Growing Partnerships in China Sustainable Development
Responsibility and partnership with stakeholders are crucial elements of China’s sustainable development, and overcoming obstacles, welcoming challenges, grasping opportunities, and working for the good of everyone are all parts of the Olympic Spirit, as well as being the goals of CSR. We would like to sincerely thank the leaders of the United Nations, NGOs, private companies and academia who devoted their time and energy to this enterprise.
Speakers
Ms. Jacylyn SHILegal Consultant, The Division on International Trade in Goods, Services and Commodities /UNCTAD
Dr. Ding NingningDirector general Department of Social Development, China State Council Research and Development Centre
• 18:00 pm dinner
