For most companies who join the Global Compact, producing their first Communication on Progress (CoP) can be a challenge. The COP is a public document, and it's important that it meets the expectations of the company's stakeholders. Especially for small and medium-sized enterprises (SME's), the existing frameworks, like GRI, may be too much.
Corruption represents a major challenge to sustainable development and a quest of titanic proportions for poorer communities around the world. It represents also a very costly imposition for business, with the extra financial burden added to the cost of doing business in many parts of the world. The World Banks has stated that “bribery: has become a $1 trillion industry”. Corruption faces business in different industries, taking many devious forms which prove deadly all the same.
The Global Compact Network Belgium in cooperation with the United Nations Development Programme and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs are delighted to invite you to participate to the conference “European trends in CSR development: Enhancing cross-border dynamics within the UN Global Compact Local Networks” which will be held in Brussels on the 29th of October 2010 in the ING bank premises, 24 avenue Marnix, 1000 Brussels.
"Business practices rooted in universal values can bring social and economic gains."
