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Course Outline Structure Overview: CSR and Dev Cross-Cutting Themes Impact Assessment Participation Current Topics Codes of Conduct, SMEs, Ethical trading, GVCs. Summary & Integration
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CSR & Participation
CSRD 27 September 2010
Introduction
Summary (short – of CSR & Impact Assessment)
Exercise: CSR and Participation Presentation:
CSR and Participation
Course Outline
Structure Overview: CSR and Dev. 2010 Cross-Cutting Themes
Impact Assessment Participation
Current Topics Codes of Conduct, SMEs, Ethical trading, GVCs.
Summary & Integration
Summary
What Is CSR Impact Assessment?
Summary
What Is CSR Impact Assessment?An assessment, as objective as possible, of the long-
term intended and unintended consequences of CSR-interventions
Note: CSR Evaluation: An assessment, as objective as possible, of the relevance, efficiency, effectiveness, sustainability, and impact of CSR interventions
Summary
What Do We Know About CSR’s Impacts?
Summary
What Do We Know About CSR’s Impacts? Mainly about the business caseOtherwise little, likeCSR initiatives work for some firms
(workers, communities etc), in some places, in tackling some issues, some of the time (Newell, 2005)
PPP Impact Assessment
Assumptions (Lund-Thomsen 2009) Interest in Knowing Effects Truth Out There To Be Discovered We Can Discover the Truth Will Generate More Comparative Evidence
Politics of Assessing Impact Whose interests do PPP IAs serve? IAs: Story to Written, Negotiation/Resistance
PPP Impact Assessment
Politics of Impact Assessment Issues/Voices Included or Excluded? Context Specificity
Impact Assessment Criteria (Utting and Zammit, 2009) Functional & Performance Selectivity Policy Coherence
Exercise: CSR and Participation
Consider how to ensure ‘proper participation’ of local communities in CSR interventions – the case of South Africa Who? When? How? What issues?
Exercise: CSR and Participation
Consider how to ensure ‘proper participation’ of local communities in CSR interventions – the case of South Africa Who? When? How? What issues?
CSR and Participation
What is a participatory approach to IA? Empowerment, process, accessible tools (Mayoux & Chambers, 2005)
Why Is It Relevant? Design, Implementation, Monitoring, and IA Southern-Centred Perspectives ”The world of CSR would look very different
if the priorities of poorer groups were put first” Capture local priorities/diversity of voices Increases skills, knowledge, networks
CSR and Participation
Where Is It Relevant? Resource extraction industries
Oil, gas, mining, etc. Labour and pollution-intensive domestic/
export industries Textile, leather, footwear, etc.
CSR and Participation
Structural Conditions (Omeje 2008) MNCs During Colonialism
Colonies Used for Resource Extraction Advance Industrialization in the West Right to Raise Taxes, Maintain Armies Forced Labour, Compulsory Cash Crop Production ’Self-sustaining, organic economies to resource
extraction economies’
CSR and Participation
Rentier State Resource Extraction Continues Dependent on Revenues from MNCs Rents monopolized by Elites ’Masses Not Benefitting’ No Development of Productive Sectors MNCs Complicit in a System
That Produces Underdevelopment
CSR and Participation
Dilemmas: Corporations - Community (Newell & Garvey 2005)
What is participation? Citizen control, delegated power, partnership, placation,
consultation, informing, therapy or manipulation?
What is a community? Gender, age, religion, geography, ethnicity, income?
CSR and Participation
Dilemmas: Corporations -> Community (Continued)
Unrealistic Assumptions Innocent, naive, ’good’ community members,
(women) workers etc. Who defines and who qualifies as a
stakeholder? How are stakeholder views weighed?
CSR and Participation
Community -> Corporation (Newell & Garvey 2005) Effectiveness of strategies
State-Based State-corporate, state-community, vulnerability
to int. pressure, access to information, legal framework Company-Based
Multiple levels, level of vulnerability, approach to participation
Community-Based Powerlessness, livelihood options,
intra-community dynamics, representation
Next Session (Week 40)
Value Chains, Codes of Conduct and Impact on the working conditions in the textiles and clothing industry (SJ) Neilson and Pritchard (2009): Value Chain Analysis & Local Institutions Jenkins et al. (2002): Codes of Conduct
Strengths and Weaknesses Ethical Trading Initiative (2006): ETI Code of Labour Practice Nelson et al. (2007): Impacts of Codes .. Bezuidenhout & Jeppesen (forthcoming): The Impact of Labour Codes
of Conduct on the Working Conditions …