REPORTS
5.4

Regional and Local Government Initiatives to Support CSR

Location: Maastricht - Netherlands
Date: 09 November 2005

Objectives:

The purpose of this parallel session was to promote learning and exchange between regional and local governments, thereby strengthening their role in promoting collaboration on CSR among various stakeholders. A number of regions shared their experiences. The main focus was on the involvement of stakeholders in the policy process taking as starting point a multi-stakeholder dialogue for new initiatives and bottom-up approach to stimulate CSR.

Audience:

30-35 from business and from public authorities

Contribution:

Mr. Don Stewart, Executive Director, People - Yorkshire Forward (UK) Mr. Leo Leynse, Senior Policy Officer, Province of Zeeland (the Netherlands) Mr. Jef Van der Wee, Deputy-director, Flemish Employment Administration (Belgium) Mr. Allan Bussard, Managing Director, The Integra Venture (Slovakia) Mr. Marcel Braun, ISO Institut zur Erforschung sozialer Chancen (Germany) Moderator: Ms. Kyla Brand, Director, Agenda Scotland (UK) Rapporteur: Ms. Trine Morch, County of South Jutland (Denmark)

Content:

Ms. Brand introduced the session as an opportunity to share findings from the partnership project CSR Vaderegio 2 financed by DG Employment and Social Affairs and to exchange information with other partners including the Dutch Presidency. Attention would be on what public authorities were doing within CSR, what were their goals and what had been done do far.

Conclusions:

The regional and local policy level plays a significant role in promoting CSR, especially in stimulating bottom-up multi-stakeholder dialogue. Indeed, as the examples showed, regions have already developed initiatives to stimulate the dialogue and involve stakeholders in the policy process.

Contact:

csr@csrvaderegio.net

More info:

Main Event - 2004_1.pdf EN (PDF 125Kb)