Corporate Social Responsibility - Sustainable Development Policy ...

Corporate Social ResponsibilitySANSARSouth Asia Network for Sustainability and ResponsibilityOrganizations of South East Asia promoting Corporate Social Responsibility such as CSRCentre (Bangladesh), Sustainable Development Policy Institute (Pakistan), Centre for AfghanCivil Society Support (Afghanistan) have come together to launch new platform called SANSARalong with Prakruthi (India). The whole idea to make sure that a platform for discussing andpromoting sustainability and CSR issues in South Asian Countries has been well supported byOXFAM NOVIB, The Netherlands. This was also well received by other organizations fromNepal, Sri Lanka and Indonesia.SANSAR's core strategy is to make stakeholders redefine and commonly understand theconcept of CSR and promote it actively to address social, environmental and business relatedissues across the globe & sectors in the long run. To achieve this, SANSAR employs strategiessuch as policy outreach, activism capacity building, research ·and networking. The abovepages document the initial research work done in sugar sector, which visibly affects lives oflarge number of population in these countries. While trying to identify with the CSR issues incounties which are at different levels of understanding and praxis of sustainability issues, wecreate a platform to discuss, share, learn and implement CSR to reduce structural poverty. Thiswould not have been possible without the help of many like-minded people.I would like to thank Dr. Abid Suleri of SDPI Pakistan, Shahamin Zaman of CSR CentreBangladesh, Mujeeb Niazi of Centre for Afghan Civil Society Support, Afghanistan who haveextended their whole-hearted support even within their busy schedules to make the pillars forthis network made. We are hoping that more and more organisations would join this network torealize our collective dream of a peaceful and prosperous South Asia.I would like to, in this regard, extend our sincere thanks to Mr. Viraf Mehta, Dr ShatadruChattopadhayay, Dr Bimal Arora, Prof. VasanthiSrinivasan, Dr MC Gopinathan in helpingus with their valuable inputs and guidance whenever needed.Pramod JohnPrakruthi , India27th March 2012y 76