Global Compact International Yearbook 2014
Fighting poverty and global warming are key challenges for mankind. „This year we are laying the groundwork for success in 2015 on three fronts: achieving the Millennium Development Goals, adopting a meaningful new climate agreement, and establishing a new vision for a sustainable future“, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon says in the 2014 edition of the Global Compact International Yearbook. Edited by macondo publishing the new yearbook offers insights to political as well as sustainability issues. This years´ focus lies on the Post-2015 Agenda. We discuss the transition from Millennium Development Goals to Sustainable Development Goals. Question are among others: Are the concepts compatible? How does the architecture of a sustainable future look like? And above all: What role does corporate responsibility play in this context? The second key aspect in our Post-2105 discussion is about measuring the SDGs. In the past indicators have been developed and used in reporting progress toward the MDGs, and now the approach to upcoming SDGs must be systematically developed. This section also includes lessons from innovation management and "big data". Climate change is another focus of teh yearbook. It counts on very prominent authors like Christiana Figueres, Executive Secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), and Sigmar Gabriel, Vice-Chancellor of the German government and Federal Minister for Economic Affairs and Energy. Other issues are : Traceability: How certification brings positive impacts and better traceability to business. Elaborated NGO inputs by Karin Kreider, the Executive Director of the ISEAL Alliance and one of the world’s leading experts on credible certification and eco-labeling, as well as Markus Arbenz, Executive Director of the International Federation of Organic Agriculture Movements (IFOAM) and Caroline Hickson, Director of Brand, Communications and Strategic Partnerships at Fairtrade International. Mandatory CSR: When CSR discussions started in the late 1960s, early 1970s ethical and moral arguments were the drivers. Since then CSR activities have become more holistic and professional. This becomes a principle-based approach in which business seeks to identify smarter business models, products, and services. Elmer Lenzen illuminates the boder zone between voluntary and mandatory CSR.
Fighting poverty and global warming are key challenges for mankind. „This year we are laying the groundwork for success in 2015 on three fronts: achieving the Millennium Development Goals, adopting a meaningful new climate agreement, and establishing a new vision for a sustainable future“, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon says in the 2014 edition of the Global Compact International Yearbook. Edited by macondo publishing the new yearbook offers insights to political as well as sustainability issues.
This years´ focus lies on the Post-2015 Agenda. We discuss the transition from Millennium Development Goals to Sustainable Development Goals. Question are among others: Are the concepts compatible? How does the architecture of a sustainable future look like? And above all: What role does corporate responsibility play in this context?
The second key aspect in our Post-2105 discussion is about measuring the SDGs. In the past indicators have been developed and used in reporting progress toward the MDGs, and now the approach to upcoming SDGs must be systematically developed. This section also includes lessons from innovation management and "big data".
Climate change is another focus of teh yearbook. It counts on very prominent authors like Christiana Figueres, Executive Secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), and Sigmar Gabriel, Vice-Chancellor of the German government and Federal Minister for Economic Affairs and Energy.
Other issues are :
Traceability: How certification brings positive impacts and better traceability to business. Elaborated NGO inputs by Karin Kreider, the Executive Director of the ISEAL Alliance and one of the world’s leading experts on credible certification and eco-labeling, as well as Markus Arbenz, Executive Director of the International Federation of Organic Agriculture Movements (IFOAM) and Caroline Hickson, Director of Brand, Communications and Strategic Partnerships at Fairtrade International.
Mandatory CSR: When CSR discussions started in the late 1960s, early 1970s ethical and moral arguments were the drivers. Since then CSR activities have become more holistic and professional. This becomes a principle-based approach in which business seeks to identify smarter business models, products, and services. Elmer Lenzen illuminates the boder zone between voluntary and mandatory CSR.
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aYa BanK<br />
Health is wealth – CSR activities in<br />
the healthcare sector<br />
In March 2011, Ayeyarwady Bank – together<br />
with its parent company, Max<br />
(Myanmar) Group of Companies, and<br />
the Ayeyarwady Foundation – donated<br />
a 550-bed pediatric hospital in Yangon.<br />
To ensure that the cleanliness of the<br />
hospital is well-maintained, members of<br />
AYA Bank’s workforce volunteer at the<br />
hospital grounds and engage in weekly<br />
cleaning activity. AYA Bank also works<br />
with the Foundation to reach out to the<br />
needy in the healthcare sector, such as<br />
with financial contributions.<br />
Ayeyarwady Foundation<br />
Apart from contributing to the activities<br />
of Ayeyarwady Foundation, AYA Bank<br />
also places Foundation donation boxes<br />
in all of its branches nationwide. This<br />
allows our customers to contribute to<br />
the activities of the Foundation that<br />
reach out to the needy. This activity<br />
was started in July 2013 and, to date,<br />
more than 3 million Myanmar kyats<br />
have been received in donations. In the<br />
years to come, AYA Bank will further<br />
improve the channels for donations by<br />
giving customers who wish to donate<br />
to the Foundation the ability to use the<br />
Bank’s ATMs.<br />
As part of our initiative to improve the<br />
healthcare sector, Ayeyarwady Foundation<br />
has also donated a total of MMK<br />
300 Mil (up to date) for medical treat-<br />
aYa BanK’S BLOOD DOnatIOn DrIve<br />
Give Blood, Give Life – AYA Bank actively<br />
participates in annual blood donation<br />
drives and organized the Third Blood<br />
Donation Drive in Yangon, in conjunction<br />
with the Bank’s third anniversary.<br />
At the Third Blood Donation Drive, there<br />
were 120 successful staff donors who<br />
donated their blood to the Yangon National<br />
Blood Bank. As the event unfolded at<br />
the National Blood Bank, many passers-<br />
by stepped forward and expressed their<br />
interest in being part of the event and<br />
donating their blood. Many joined together<br />
to share the joy of giving at the Third<br />
Blood Donation Drive. To better cater to<br />
158 <strong>Global</strong> <strong>Compact</strong> <strong>International</strong> <strong>Yearbook</strong> <strong>2014</strong>
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