Prelims Good Governance and Social Responsibility PDF

PRELIM NOTES COM5026: GOOD GOVERNANCE AND SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY FAITH MAGNO | 4M6 LESSON 1: 3. Colorwashing INTRODUCTION - Making profits from racism CORRUPTION...

PRELIM NOTES COM5026: GOOD GOVERNANCE AND SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY FAITH MAGNO | 4M6 LESSON 1: 3. Colorwashing INTRODUCTION - Making profits from racism CORRUPTION ISO 26000 Leading cause of poverty Provides guidance rather than Is a cycle (becoming part of our system as requirements, so it cannot be certified to poverty rate is increasing) unlike some other well-known ISO Economy development is important but it standards should never compromise the good of Instead, it helps clarify what social society responsibility is, helps businesses and organizations translate principles into TRIPLE BOTTOM LINE APPROACH effective actions and shares best practices Sustainability as the foundation relating to social responsibility, globally It is aimed at all types of organizations regardless of their activity, size or location 5R FRAMEWORK Five “Rs” that make up the MARKETING IS PART OF THE PROBLEM framework—Results, Roles, Relationships, 1. Greenwashing Rules and Resources—help to identify what - Make it appear that products are eco we should listen for, where we should friendly engage, what we should discover, and 2. Pinkwashing what interventions we may need to adapt. - Pride support is fake Together the 5Rs capture the basic dynamics of a system MDG2015 Millennium Development Goals WHAT CAN WE DO? Imelda Marcos was the head 1. Business Since it expired, SDG 2030 was created - Invest in eco friendly materials 2. Government - Laws equally implemented everywhere 3. Academe - Research 4. You as a private citizen - Discipline - Awareness of the issues and SDG 2030 companies that contribute to the problem On 25 September 2015, the 193 member - Green consumerism states of the UN approved the 2030 - Raise voices to critical issues Agenda for Sustainable Development, an ambitious plan that sets out to achieve HOW TO HANDLE ETHICAL DILEMMAS IN THE prosperity that is respectful of the planet WORKPLACE? and its inhabitants 1. Do your research, decide what your ethics This Agenda is made up of 17 Sustainable are before you start a job Development Goals (SDGs), further broken 2. Know when to get out (resign) down into 169 targets, to be met by 2030 3. Become an agent of change with the with the intention of "leaving no-one company behind" We can never manage poverty, only alleviate it (Poverty Management vs. Poverty Alleviation) Government only has a band aid solution to alleviate the problem  LESSON 2: CARROLL’S PYRAMID CSR PROGRAMS MULTINATIONAL COMPANIES MNCs that have CSR have more chances to remain competitive for a long time Target the younger generation by CSR 2 VIEWS OF CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY 1. The Shareholder View - The only social responsibility is to create shareholder wealth RESPONSIBILITIES - Business should contribute to social 1. Economic Responsibility reform and honor human rights 2. Ethical Responsibility - Donation is the most common CSR - Profiteering: Charge higher prices for “media mileage” profit; unethical and illegal 2. The Multiple Stakeholders View 3. Legal Responsibility - Ordinary citizen - How sure are you that the product you - The costs of social responsibility which buy online are cleared by FDA do not increase the value of stock, will 4. Environmental Responsibility be passed on to customers - Reducing waste & consumption - LMS (Last Mile Schools) - Increasing reliance on renewable energy & sustainability KEY CSR ISSUES - Offspring negative environment impact Environmental management Eco Efficiency Responsible sourcing - Ethical from raw to finished product materials Stakeholder engagement Labor standards and working conditions - Unions, “Union Busting”: Killing of unions - Contractualization Employee and community relations Social equity Gender balance Human rights Good governance Anti-corruption measures  LESSON 3: SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS 2030 7 KEY PRINCIPLES OF SOCIALLY RESPONSIBLE BEHAVIOR MILLENNIUM DEVELOPMENT GOALS 2015 The number of people now living in extreme poverty has declined by more than half, falling from 1.9 billion in 1990 to 836 million in 2015 The number of people in the working middle class—living on more than $4 a day—nearly tripled between 1991 and 2015. Globally, 147 countries have met the MDG drinking water target, 95 countries have met the MDG sanitation target and 77 countries have met both The proportion of undernourished people in the developing regions dropped by almost half since 1990 The number of out-of-school children of primary school age worldwide fell by almost half, to an estimated 57 million 2015, down from 100 million in 2000 Worldwide 2.1 billion people have gained access to improved sanitation Official development assistance from developed countries increased 66 percent in real terms from 2000 and 2014, reaching $135.2 billion.  SDG 2030 ACHIEVEMENTS financial hardship, are still without 1. No Poverty access to essential health services. - End poverty in all its forms everywhere - Universal Health Care Act - Sustainable Development Goals with 4. Quality Education 169 associated targets which are - Ensure inclusive and equitable quality integrated and indivisible. education and promote lifelong - The share of the world’s population learning opportunities for all living in extreme poverty decreased - Shockingly low proficiency rates in from 10% in 2015 to 8.6% in 2018, and reading and mathematics signal a baseline projections suggest that 6 global learning crisis, and one-third of percent of the world’s population will the world’s children are being left still be living in extreme poverty in 2030 behind; progress has stalled in if current trends continue reaching out-of-school children, too - How far can your Php 1000 go? many schools in sub-Saharan Africa - $1.90 = 106.40 lack the basic elements of good quality 2. Zero Hunger education - End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture - Despite earlier extended progress, the number of people suffering from hunger has been on the rise since 2014. - Last Mile Schools - An estimated 821 million people were 5. Gender Equality undernourished in 2017, the same - Achieve gender equality and empower number as in 2010 all women - The disturbing fact is that in certain - The world is a better place for women areas, i.e. Sub-Saharan Africa, today than it was in the past. Fewer undernourished people increased from girls are forced into early marriage, 195 million to 237 million. more women serve in parliament and 3. Good Health and Well-Being leadership positions, and laws are - Ensure healthy lives and promote being reformed to advance gender well-being for all at all ages equality - Major progress has been made to - Despite these gains, discriminatory improve millions of people's health laws and social norms remain - Maternal and child mortality rates have pervasive, along with harmful practices been reduced, life expectancy and other forms of violence against continues to increase globally, and the women and girls fight against some infectious diseases has made steady progress - However, at least half the world’s population, many of whom suffer  7. Affordable and Clean Energy - Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable, and modern energy for all - Global population having access to this service has risen from 87 percent in 2015 to 89 percent in 2017; however, 840 million people were still without this essential service in 2017, mostly in sub-Saharan Africa - In that region, only 44 percent of the population had access - The major challenge is that 3 billion people still lack clean cooking fuels 6. Clean Water and Sanitation and technologies - Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all - Freshwater is a precious resource, yet water is under threat like other natural resources. Billions of people—mostly in rural areas—still lack these basic 8. Decent Work and Economic Growth services - To protect labor rights and promote - In response, donors increased their aid safeworking environments and commitments to the water sector by 37 protected for all workers, including percent between 2016 and 2017. migrant workers, particularly migrant women, and people in precarious jobs - Strengthen the capacity of domestic financial institutions to encourage the expansion of access to banking services, insurance, and financial for all - Globally, real GDP per capita and labor productivity have increased, and unemployment has dropped back to pre-financial crisis levels - The major challenges are the 7 percent target of economic growth is still out of reach in the least developed countries, wide disparities among regions in rising labor productivity, the challenge of informal employment to the goal of decent work for all, the pay gap  between women and men, the global 10. Reduced Inequalities unemployment rate remains high in - This SDG calls for reducing inequalities some regions and among youth and in income as well as those based on the ineffective harnessing of talents age, sex, disability, race, ethnicity, and energy of one-fifth of the world’s origin, religion or economic or other youth status within a country - Despite progress in some areas, inequality within and among countries is a persistent cause for concern. Income inequality continues to rise in many parts of the world 11. Sustainable Cities and Communities 9. Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure - Make cities and human settlements - Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive, safe, resilient, and inclusive and sustainable sustainable industrialization, and foster innovation. - The world is becoming increasingly - The growth of manufacturing in both urbanized. Since 2007, more than half developing and developed regions the world’s population has been living slowed in 2018 in cities, and that share is projected to - In LDCs, the share of manufacturing in rise to 60 percent by 2030. Major total GDP increased by 2.5 percent challenges remain: outpacing of annually between 2015 and 2018 urbanization and population growth to - However, that still falls short of the pace the construction of adequate and needed to achieve a doubling of the affordable housing; faster progress of Manufacturing Value Added (MVA) access to public transport in share in GDP by 2030 and calls for developing regions; the growing need accelerated action for investment in urban infrastructure to deal with municipal waste and dealing with unavoidable health hazards - Ex: Baguio Community  - Ex: Vision (25,000) vs. Current 13. Climate Action Population (250,000) - Take urgent action to combat climate 12. Responsible Consumption and change and its impacts Production - The global mean temperature for 2018 - Ensure sustainable consumption and was approximately 1°C above the production patterns pre-industrial baseline, and the last - “Material footprint” refers to the total four years have been the warmest on amount of raw materials extracted to record meet final consumption demands and - Sea levels continue to rise at an indicates the pressures placed on the accelerating rate. environment to support economic growth and satisfy people's material needs - The global material footprint rose from 54 billion in 2000 to 92 billion in 2017—an increase of 70 percent since 2000, and it is projected to grow to 190 billion metric tons by 2060 14. Life Below Water - What’s more, the global material - Conserve and sustainably use the footprint is increasing at a faster rate oceans, seas, and marine resources for than both population and economic sustainable development output - Improvements in water quality are achievable, and an analysis of trends from 2015 to 2018 shows a positive trend - The major challenge remains increasing acidification, threatening marine life, and hampering the ocean’s role in moderating climate change 15. Life on Land rights activists and journalists are - Sustainable Development Goal 15 holding back development seeks to protect, restore, and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss - The latest report of the Intergovernmental Science-Policy 17. Partnerships for the Goals Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem - Strengthen the means of Services noted that biodiversity is implementation and revitalize the declining faster than at any other time global partnership for sustainable in human history development - Progress in protecting key biodiversity - Support for implementing the SDGs is areas must accelerate to meet the gaining momentum, but major 2030 target challenges remain - A growing share of the global population has access to the Internet, and a Technology Bank for LDCs has been established, yet the digital divide persists. - Still, half the world’s population is not online, and financial support for statistics is still not sufficient to meet the demand created by the SDGs 16. Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions - Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all, and build effective, accountable, and inclusive institutions at all levels - In recent years, no substantial advances have been made toward ending violence, promoting the rule of law, strengthening institutions at all levels, or increasing access to justice - Millions of people have been deprived of their security, rights, and opportunities, while attacks on human