Partnership opportunities for Cordaid We helped Cordaid to identify partnership opportunities for its Urban Matters campaign. Urban Matters worked on “smart solutions for slums” by connecting the people living in slums with companies, authorities, knowledge centres and investors. Its work resulted in both liveable and sustainable neighbourhoods.
Solidaridad Network We have been engaged in several of Solidaridad‘s programmes and activities. Solidaridad brings together supply chain actors and engages them in innovative solutions to improve production, ensuring the transition to a sustainable and inclusive economy. Programme management For Solidaridad, we have managed programmes and projects in the cotton, textile and garment sectors. Our…
Conference facilitation for the Norwegian Environment Agency At the 7th Trondheim Conference on Biodiversity, in collaboration with Natasha Walker, we moderated roundtable discussions on the implementation of biodiversity targets. Over 400 high-level experts and country representatives attended the conference.
Policy advice for the Korean Standards Association The Korean Standards Association (KSA) invited us to make several presentations on public policies in the field of CSR. We went to Seoul and presented at the 7th Sustainability Management Conference, organised by the Korean Standards Association and hosted by the Ministry of Knowledge Economy.
Lecturing at the University of Geneva At the University of Geneva we developed and taught modules on CSR standards, value chains, supply chain responsibility and stakeholder engagement for the Executive Education in CSR programme. We also supervised theses for this programme and for the MA in International Trading, Commodity Finance and Shipping. The CSR programme…
Research on business lobby groups Friends of the Earth commissioned us to write a chapter on the UN Global Compact for a report that voiced concerns about the increasing influence of major corporations and business lobby groups within the United Nations. The report was launched at the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio+20) in 2012. We also wrote…
Research on development cooperation and the private sector Ethics at Work has supported Oxfam Novib with research on the links between Official Development Assistance (ODA) and private sector development. The focus of this work has been on the (lack of) evidence for the idea that financial assistance to private companies leads to poverty reduction in developing countries. For Oxfam…
We are involved in several programmes of the Netherlands Enterprise Agency (RVO) and the Centre for the Promotion of Imports from developing countries (CBI). CBI was an agency of the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs that became part of RVO in 2015. These are some of our activities for RVO and CBI: Programme management support…
Research and policy advice for the European Commission Rupa Ganguli and Bart Slob assisted the European Commission in collecting, screening, analysing and synthesising information on responsible supply chain practices in the garment sector. On the basis of our findings, we identified the priority areas for action that could deliver added value under the EU Garment Initiative. This…
Report about industry interests in the biofuel sector In collaboration with SOMO, we wrote a report (in Dutch) for Greenpeace and Actionaid about lobby and advocacy in the Dutch biofuel industry. The report focuses on the lobby activities of the Rotterdam Climate Initiative and the Port of Rotterdam.
