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It is because of the advocacy that has been coming from the women’s movements and from the ministries responsible for women and gender issues. At UN Women we are working with five governments in the sub-region in a pilot program to see exactly what women are doing to get out of poverty. Most of these women are in what is called the informal sector, and their work is not recognized. The women who kept the Zimbabwe economy going at the lowest point in its history are not recognized even today. Yet, they ensured the survival of their families and the economy. It is absolutely essential to deal with the economic empowerment of women, because we know that when women have that economic independence, they are more likely to be able to make decisions about their dignity, their security, and their welfare. Does UN Women work with rural women? in school. Parents are more likely to withdraw the girls from school if they are cash-strapped – or if the girls are going to get married. The other problem is that pregnancy in schools is very high and girls will drop out to have the babies. Girls also tend to have more work to do in the home, so they have less time to study and therefore tend to have a lower passing rate than the boys. Southern Africa has the highest HIV prevalence rates in the world. How are women affected? So much money has come through for programs against HIV and AIDS. But the work has not taken into account the clear connection between gender inequality and the spread of HIV/ AIDS. In some southern African countries, there are 5 percent of men with HIV, but you find 20 to 22 percent of young women of the same age group with HIV. When you do the research, it is very much: “I didn’t want to sleep with him, but he forced me.” And then there is the whole issue of “survival sex” in southern Africa, where young girls will sleep with older men so that they are able to go to school. And women are also more likely than men to be in poverty … It seems as though even our governments have now acknowledged that development is not going to happen without the full involvement and participation of women in the economy. But they have not just all of a sudden become benevolent. We are currently looking to raise $ 33 million in funds for a project to do exactly that, to work with rural women, particularly rural women farmers. It is a major challenge. At least 70 percent of the labor in agriculture is provided by women. When we seek $ 33 million, that is a drop in the ocean really – it is nothing in terms of the need. And what happens when the $ 33 million is gone? We need to be able to define programs that governments include in their own national development plans. And governments must be able to desist from corruption. It is not that the national resources are not there, but they are misused. UN Women has just been created, merging four different UN entities that dealt with women. For women here in southern Africa, what difference can UN Women make? What I see already is just an amazing amount of renewed energy for women’s empowerment in the various areas of work since the creation of UN Women – renewed hope indeed that UN Women will do things better and faster in promoting women’s rights globally. It is a very tough call for us in UN Women to deliver on that. This interview was originally published in Africa Renewal, Special Edition on Women 2012, produced by the Africa Section of the United Nations Department of Public Information. www.un.org/africarenewal/magazine/ special-edition-women-2012/‘renewedenergy-women’s-empowerment’ 62 Global Compact International Yearbook 2013
Inside ... Agenda CSR in Africa aFrica CSR in South Africa Professor Ralph Hamann is Research Director for the Graduate School of Business at the University of Cape Town. His areas of expertise include Corporate Citizenship and Corporate Social Responsibility. In 2006 he was involved as a researcher at the UN Global Compact Learning Forum, which took place in Ghana. For the UN Global Compact International Yearbook, Hamann highlights the “paradox for CSR in South Africa” and beyond. National Concept of CSR In light of South Africa’s history, is there a specific South African view on corporate social responsibility (CSR)? Prof. Hamann: The historical context has provided a paradox regarding CSR in South Africa. On the one hand, corporations are implicated in the design of the apartheid economy and migrant labor system, specifically, as well as associated human rights abuses. As argued by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, “grand apartheid was not an Afrikaner state invention, but was created by the mines” (paraphrased). This historical legacy still lingers in the pervasive distrust between big (white) business and the post-1994 government. For those distrustful of business, CSR will remain a fig leaf. On the other hand, large companies recognized – at least in the 1970s – that the increasingly severe policies of the apartheid government were leading to social unrest that would have negative consequences for business. As a prominent example, Anglo American and others established in 1978 (after the Soweto riots) the Urban Foundation, which played an important role in building schools and houses in Soweto and elsewhere, and also in advocating policy changes (less strict pass laws). The Urban Foundation is a precursor to the National Business Initiative. The apartheid legacy obviously creates particular social challenges, which have become priorities for companies’ corporate social investment (CSI) programs. These investments focus on education, health, and small enterprise development. Unfortunately, many companies still think that CSR is primarily about CSI. My criticism is that companies focus on giving away a small proportion of their profits without really understanding and responding to the social implications of their core business practices. I hardly use the term CSR anymore, partly due to this confusion. We rather emphasize the need to understand the broader social-ecological context in companies’ strategy design and implementation. Global Compact International Yearbook 2013 63
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