UN GLOBAL COMPACT PAKISTAN LOCAL NETWORK, AUGUST 2010
RRBI is a partner with UN Global Compact Pakistan Local Network and attended the formal ceremony held for the purpose of signing a contract for collaboration between UNGCPLN and the Swiss Business Council in Pakistan for at the Consulate General of Switzerland on 11th August,..
11 August, 20109TH ASIA PACIFIC ROUNDTABLE FOR SUSTAINABLE CONSUMPTION AND PRODUCTION, JUNE 2010
RBI’s Executive Director is on the Board of trusties of APRSCP. An organization geared to create awareness and build capacity on Sustainable Consumption and Production in Asia Pacific Region through technical research and series of Round tables since 1995 in collaboration with UNIDO, UNEP and GTZ. APRSCP brings...
16 July, 2010Climate Sustainability Platform, June 2010
RBI was one of the organizing partners, together with the Centre for Environment and Development (CED), Global Sustainability Solutions (GLOSS) and The Management Club (TMC) holding the UN Rio+20 Summit Stakeholder Consultation in Colombo on 9th June 2010 at the Galle Face Hotel under the theme of...
16 June, 2010United Nations Global Compact’s local network for Bangladesh, January 2009
RBI attended the event at Hotel Sheraton, January 26th, in which UN Global Compact’s local network for Bangladesh was launched. The speakers in this event expressed that the progress in this endeavor requires the support and involvement of many other key stakeholders, and that the...
16 August, 2009Responsible Action Leaders Workshop, July 2009.
RBI had a one week workshop for future leaders of business, government and the citizen sector. The aim of this workshop was to increase the awareness of the importance of corporate social responsibility and sustainable business. The idea was to provide the future leaders with...
16 July, 2009Asian Forum on Corporate Social Responsibility (AFCSR), Singapore, November 2008
RBI was a leading NGO partner in AFCSR 2008. Asian Forum on Corporate Social Responsibility is being held every year in varying countries and the topics of the conferences are related to promoting CSR. http://www.unescap.org/oes/statements/2008/ST20081120-Asian-Forum-on-Corporate-Social-Responsibility.html (many conferences)
16 November, 2008Awareness and Training Sessions on Water and Energy Conservation in TPMs of Pakistan, May 2006.
RBI participated in organizing workshops in collaboration with WWF Pakistan and Confederation of Indian Industry (CII). The series of one day awareness session on the topic “Water and Energy Conservation in TPMs of Pakistan” were held in Karachi, Lahore and Faisalabad. Ms. Ambreen Waheed from RBI briefed...
16 October, 2008Business Policy Roundtable on “Social Enterprise – Beyond Philanthropy”. August 2008.
Responsible Business Initiative (RBI) helped CIPE in organizing a business policy roundtable on the ideas of corporate citizenship and how companies can be more creative and innovative in implementing these ideas through strategic planning. Read more: http://www.cipepk.org/SEBP-Concept%20paper.pdf Link to Dawn News (somewhere)
16 August, 2008BCCI, Bhutan – CSR Training & Research, January 2008
Experts from seven SAARC countries came together on 28th January with 50 representatives from trade, industry and civil society at the Bhutan Chamber of Commerce and Industry to conduct the country’s first Introductory Workshop on CSR. The workshop participants consisted of representatives from the Royal government, private...
16 January, 2008Business Talk CSR Series of Learning, Autumn 2007.
RBI being of the technical partner initiated, in collaboration with United Nations Global Compact Pakistan Local Network, a “Business Talk CSR” Series of Learning under the theme “Making the United Nations Global Compact Work”. The topic of the first event, held on September 11th 2007, was...
16 December, 2007Awareness session on ”Promoting Environmental Reporting in Corporate Sector of Pakistan 2006
RBI participated in the awareness session organized by WWF Pakistan and Chambers of Commerce and Industry. The workshop was divided into three days and held in different cities, 27th March in Lahore, 1th March in Islamabad and 2th March in Karachi. Ms. Ambreen Waheed from RBI...
16 December, 2007WWF/CII/RBI environmental workshop, March 2006.
A one day workshop on “promoting Environmental Reporting in the Corporate sector of Pakistan” was organized by World Wide Fund (WWF) Pakistan in collaboration with Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) and Responsible Business Initiatives (RBI), funded by European Union under its Small Project Facility (SPF)...
16 December, 2007E-discussion on Corporate Social Responsibility in Asia and the Pacific, April 2005
Leading up to the second Asia-Pacific Business Forum to be held 13-15 May 2005 in Bangkok, Thailand, UNESCAP and the World Bank Institute (WBI) in collaboration with the United Nations’ International Trade Centre organized an international E-discussion on “Corporate Social Responsibility in Asia and the...
16 December, 2007CSR Worldwide Week, 3-10 November 2004
RBI was one of the organizations participating in CSR Worldwide Week. This event gathered together Civil Society Organization and trade union representatives from many regions across the globe which where united by a vision of a sustainable and an equitable world. The goal of this...
16 December, 2007Ethical Corporation Asia 2004
RBI was one of the participants holding a two-day conference and learning event which was held in Hong Kong on 14th-15th October focusing on how and why companies are trying to improve Corporate Responsibility performance. Ambreen Waheed from RBI talked in the workshop on the topic “Building internal anti-corruption...
16 December, 2007Panel Discussion – Promoting Corporate Social Responsibility in Pakistan, 29 May 2004.
Ms. Ambreen Waheed from RBI initiated a panel discussion on promoting CSR in Pakistan. 2-day conference was organized by Securities and Exchange Commission of Pakistan (SECP) in cooperation with Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS). Readore: (download file)
16 December, 2007
TBL Conferences
TBL is one the main partners of RBI and the collaboration has involved participating in three conferences during in 2005, 2006 and 2007. With a role to promote global awareness of CSR issues, RBI has designed special sessions in these conferences with the topics of Linking the...
16 November, 2007TBL Conference Asia 2007, Bangkok, 15-16th November2007
In this conference the session organized by RBI discussed issues such as Islamic finance, how Islamic banking principles apply to microfinance and whether Islamic finance can serve as an alternative to the socio-economic crisis. The speakers who run this workshop consisted of Ambreen Waheed (RBI Pakistan),...
16 October, 2007TBL Conference Europe 2005, Frankfurt, Germany, 2-4 November 2005
The two main questions in the workshop organized by RBI were: How can we link the two sides of the planet? Can Socially Responsible Investment positively influence CSR by demanding a broader, stakeholder oriented corporate governance instead of a narrow shareholder perspective? The speakers were...
16 November, 2005
