CORE Platform Annual Report 2017-2018

actions were established:
To encourage small and medium size businesses to take part in CSR activities, mainly
in their localities;
To create with local councils a priority task to be handled, such as the maintenance
of playgrounds;
To take part in European CSR-related projects;
To take part in local projects with NGOs, local communities, and businesses;
To create CSR Awards.
In the meantime, CORE Platform has been engaged in a number of local and European
projects. Some of the local projects include "Volunteer Siema", "Working Roma", "Resilient
Communities", projects with the President’s Trust, "Leaders For A Day", “Moving Beyond
Integration”, a project on gender-based violence, as well as another project aimed at
increasing NGO sustainability. CORE Platform is also engaged in "EUTalent", which is an EUfunded
project and focuses on apprenticeships and of improving the quality of
apprenticeship schemes and identifying obstacles in the field.
In addition to this, we had, since the very beginning, told the Government that Malta is the
only EU country that does not have a national CSR Plan. Even so, this was acknowledged and
we offered to co-ordinate this with all the Ministries concerned yet, until today, we have not
managed to get this done. Thanks to the MCCFF, CORE Platform was awarded funds to carry
out this much needed project. We have found a lot of support from various entities,
especially businesses and we hope to finalise an action plan on CSR for Malta by the middle
of 2019.
In Malta, a lot is being done by companies, especially the larger ones. Moreover,
tremendous work is being done by the various NGOs, however this national plan will clearly
set out the priorities in order to achieve better outcomes. We also need to link all the CSR
activities to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), which are part of the United
Nations 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and are a list of 17 goals aimed at
promoting peace and prosperity for all, ending all forms of poverty, fighting inequalities, and
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