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CSR & Participation

Dive into the world of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) impact assessments and participation in development, examining key themes like codes of conduct, participation, and ethical trading. This course will provide an overview of CSR's impacts and strategies for ensuring proper community involvement in CSR initiatives.

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CSR & Participation

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  1. CSR & Participation CSRD 27 September 2010

  2. Introduction • Summary (short – of CSR & Impact Assessment) • Exercise: CSR and Participation • Presentation: CSR and Participation

  3. 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

  4. Summary • What Is CSR Impact Assessment?

  5. 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

  6. Summary • What Do We Know About CSR’s Impacts?

  7. Summary • What Do We Know About CSR’s Impacts? • Mainly about the business case • Otherwise little, like • CSR initiatives work for some firms (workers, communities etc), in some places, in tackling some issues, some of the time (Newell, 2005)

  8. 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

  9. 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

  10. 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?

  11. 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?

  12. 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

  13. 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.

  14. 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’

  15. 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

  16. 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?

  17. 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?

  18. 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

  19. 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 …

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