Addressing the challenge of sustainability requires boardrooms to engage with the diversity debate
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Forming international ESG practices with a purpose-driven mindset
ESG goes far beyond the umbrella term of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), holding organisations accountable beyond the traditional performance metrics of financial returns
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Video: Are businesses in the Middle East making CSR a way of life?
The UAE and Saudi Arabia lead the way as leaders in the adoption of corporate social responsibility practices while demonstrating a positive impact of CSR on businesses
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Executive support for diversity, equity, and inclusion must start with data
Since DEI touches every part of the business and supply chain, it’s sometimes difficult to know where to start, and which action will have the greatest impact. This is where having the right data can help.
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The ‘E’ in ESG: Addressing the elephant in the boardroom
Most companies have a history of corporate social responsibility (CSR) initiatives, which addresses the S in ESG, and have been slowly enhancing their corporate governance, which addresses the G in ESG, but the environmental aspect needs attention
accountability
Creating accountability: Why chartered accountants are instrumental to ESG success
Given the infancy of ESG auditing, chartered accountants can help bring much-needed clarity to investors, employees, customers and other interested parties
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UAE Minister of Economy reveals CSR UAE Fund’s five-year strategy to boost PPPs and encourage CSR efforts
The CSR UAE Fund’s strategy for the next five years include 50 programmes and initiatives designed in partnership with the private sector that will assess levels of progress achieves in regard to the UN SDGs
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CSR in the UAE: What businesses can do to boost corporate social responsibility
CSR initiatives are sometimes viewed as altruism, or charity. However, most UN SDGs have positives for the industries and businesses that support them through their social responsibility initiatives
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Dubai’s Crown Prince seeks ‘strong partnerships’ to promote corporate social responsibility
At a meeting held at Expo 2020 Dubai, chaired by Sheikh Hamdan, The Executive Council adopted policies aimed at encouraging corporate social responsibility among private sector companies
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Why social impact bonds are the future of giving in the region
This contract type creates a sustainable impact which is what investors are after nowadays, said an executive director at Abu Dhabi’s Authority of Social Contribution – Ma’an
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MENA start-ups can show the world there is more to unicorn status than scale-up and expansion
For the Sustainable Development Goals to yield more successful results, the collective sustainable impact of companies should go hand-in-glove with business growth
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Why businesses need to get serious about cause marketing
Unlike philanthropic giving, cause-marketing is not a straight forward donation to charity, but a partnership between a private and non-for-profit for mutual benefit
consumer behaviour
The evolving role of corporate responsibility over the past century
The focus on creating products that meet customers’ needs led to the advent of mass customization
Charity
Why supporting charity is good for business
Gone are the days of only profits. Welcome to the new world of purpose, says Alexander Nehme
business strategy
Video: The rise of conscious capitalism
The so-called ESG business space is currently reckoned to be worth more than some $32tn.
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Opinion: How to fix the Gulf’s social services problem
What is needed is a move away from the mindset that social development should only involve the government