Corporate responsibility has been established at the highest level.

The project will examine and assess the importance of CSR strategies and the related challenges faced by SMEs in their efforts to gain access to new markets.

These services are grouped together in a dedicated programme for the promotion of CSR and business partnerships.

UNDP has indicated a possible takeover of the following 20 positions

UNDP has missed many opportunities for learning, and there is little institutional memory or exchange of information.

It will also explore the relationship between CSR, quality management and productivity enhancement at the company level as well as the case for collective action in the context of public private partnerships.

The publication Corporate Social Responsibility and the Development Agenda Should SMEs Care? was issued as one of the SME Technical Working Papers series.

Mr. Didier Philippe, Director, CSR and Micro Enterprise Acceleration Program, Europe, Middle East and Africa, Hewlett Packard

It is not clear where accountability for implementing gender mainstreaming lies within UNDP.

10. Emphasizes the need to facilitate the implementation at the national level of the Programme of Action through the strengthening of national coordination agencies or bodies and institutional infrastructure

The UNDP Institutional Capacity Development Support Programme continued to provide support to State institutions through the deployment of 118 critical adviser positions.

(a) Convergence and privatization in telecommunications institutional and other responses.

It coordinates the corporate work programme by preparing and monitoring the Centre's business plan and by carrying out the key functions of programme and project evaluation, resource mobilization and corporate communication.

The agreement distinguishes between the oversight and services to be provided by UNDP for UNIFEM operations, thereby clarifying areas of responsibility.

For sustainability of agricultural production and realization of the agricultural production improvement programme, including use of land and agrarian development strategy, the institutional legal foundations need to be laid down, in addition to a series of institutional measures to stimulate such development. Primarily

The CSR programme will increasingly be integrated with other UNIDO programmes, such as the SME cluster and networking programme and the national cleaner production centre (NCPC) programme, to ensure a synergetic and complementary approach.

His country fully supported the transformation of UNEP into a more powerful and institutionalized framework for promoting environmental activities.

Institutional arrangements

Institutional capacity building.

Institutional arrangements

UNU is also evaluating the enterprise resource planning system, Atlas, implemented by UNDP, the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) and UNOPS.

It will then proceed to identify industrial subsectors in which the adoption of CSR practices by SMEs is likely to result in increasing market shares, stemming from consumer preferences for responsible and sustainable consumption.

Institutional mechanisms need to be improved.

Institutions and institutional processes

Institutions and institutional processes

PROLEY provided indispensable technical and political support to members of Congress, political parties, the peace accords Follow Up Commission, civil society organizations and MINUGUA itself.

The PAIR is being implemented in six pilot municipalities, carrying out studies to analyze the situation, mobilization, care, defense and ascertainment of responsibility, and campaigns of social awareness.

About 13 per cent of the funds was used to promote the many legislative reforms contemplated in the peace accords, through the Programme of Institutional Assistance for Legal Reform (PROLEY) project.

Under the Institutional Capacity Development Support Programme, UNDP currently provides 55 advisers to the State institutions this number is expected to increase to 75 by May 2005.

This includes responsibility for the Iraq Programme and the management of three regional offices for Africa and the Arab States, Asia and the Pacific, and Latin America and the Caribbean.

Reporting

Responsibility

Thus, the UNIDO corporate strategy proclaims that

Institutional responses to relevant issues

Expert review teams and institutional arrangements

The institutional foundations of democracy are growing stronger.

(iii) Implementation of Enterprise Content Management applications

The UNIDO programme on biosafety assists developing countries and countries with economies in transition to build up their institutional capacities, especially those relating to regulatory oversight and compliance with internationally agreed standards.

In addition, it was necessary to focus on the role of institutional and political economy factors the drivers that determined whether CSR was effective and which could explain how such initiatives could be scaled up, ratcheted up and replicated in different industries and countries.

Individual responsibility

Financial responsibility

J. Question of liability

The UNIDO integrated programme in Burundi had laid the necessary foundations by supporting the training of personnel in a number of key sectors, but UNIDO assistance was also needed to promote production, resource mobilization and institutional capacity building.

Internal audit and corporate risk management

Suely de Oliveira Sub Department for Institutional Articulation (Subsecretária de Relações Institucionais)