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Private Sector & Development #21 - Promoting CSR in Africa: a sustainable development opportunity

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  • Africa
  • Southern Africa and Indian Ocean

  • North Africa

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The last decade has seen the CSR spread across every continent, transforming businesses. The major international organisations have produced guidelines, norms and standards to provide the private sector with the relevant benchmarks and references.

Fad, smokescreen or real paradigm shift? CSR generates interest as well as controversy. Yet despite this, the last decade has seen it spread across every continent, transforming businesses. More and more private companies are taking their stakeholders’ interests into account and incorporating environmental, social and governance concerns into their operations. The CSR movement is a reality and the major international organisations have produced guidelines, norms and standards to provide the private sector with the relevant benchmarks and references.
 

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21
Page number
28
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Private Sector and Development
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