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ASEAN Responsible Business Forum 
Tuesday, 27 - Thursday, 29 October 2015
“Promoting responsible business practice in the ASEAN Economic Community”
Royal Chulan Damansara Hotel, Kuala Lumpur Malaysia
 
WORKSHOPS PROGRAMME 

*Agenda is subject to confirmation and change

27 October, Tuesday

0900 - 1230

Consultation Workshop:

Towards Harmonized Business Integrity Standards and Programs in ASEAN

Venue: Royale 3 & 4 

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Agriculture Workshop:

Inclusive Policy-Making in Agriculture & Investment – Experiences & Lessons from Public-Private Partnerships & Multi-Stakeholder Coalitions 

Venue: Mutiara 1 & 2

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1400 - 1730

Training Workshop:

Corporate Best Practices and Legal Trends in Tackling Corruption & Bribery

Venue: Royale 3 & 4 

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Gender Workshop:

Driving Gender Transformative Agricultural Investment: Challenges, Opportunities & Practical Solutions towards Sustainable Economic Growth in the AEC

Venue: Mutiara 1 & 2

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29 October, Thursday

0900 - 1200

Consultant Workshop:

Implementing the UN Guiding Principles on Business & Human Rights

Venue: Royale 3 & 4 

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1430 - 1730  

1. Consultation and training workshop: Towards harmonised business integrity standards and programmes in ASEAN (9:00am – 5:30pm, Tuesday, 27 October 2015)

Established in September 2014, the Regional Working Group on Business Integrity in ASEAN recognises an urgent need for collective action and the enhanced role of businesses in the fight against corruption. To enable this, a Framework for Collective Action was adopted last March 2015.

Serving as the 4th meeting of the Regional Working Group, this workshop provides an opportunity for multi-stakeholder dialogue and enhancing understanding of international anti-corruption frameworks and standards, particularly on how they can contribute towards joint regional actions and harmonised strategies and programmes in tackling corruption in the private sector.

The workshop is organized by the ASEAN CSR Network and the Regional Working Group in partnership with the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC). It is supported by the UK’s Foreign & Commonwealth Office through its Prosperity Fund.

2. Workshop: Inclusive policy-making in agriculture and investment – experiences and lessons from public-private partnerships and multi-stakeholder coalitions (9:00am – 12:30pm, Tuesday, 27 October 2015)

Making agriculture and investments inclusive for women and small family farmers is challenging policymakers. Yet, women and smallholders are at the heart of generating a food-secure and sustainable future. Taking a holistic approach to the social, environmental and economic challenges surrounding agriculture and investments, policy-makers have increasingly been engaging a wider range of stakeholders (public, private and civil society), often establishing innovative policy coalitions or partnerships. Such initiatives have brought us lessons and challenges on sustainability, effectiveness, accountability and participation.

This workshop will explore the successes and failures from existing public-private partnerships and multi-stakeholder coalitions in ASEAN. It will aim to identify better practices, do’s and don’ts for participating policy makers from governments, private sector and civil society organisations. There will be a minimum of presentations and maximum interaction to facilitate the exchange of learnings.

The workshop is organized by Oxfam with support from the Government of Sweden through its Embassy in Bangkok. 

3. Gender Workshop: Driving gender transformative agricultural investment: challenges, opportunities and practical solutions towards sustainable economic growth in the AEC (2:00pm – 5:00pm, Tuesday, 27 October 2015)

Investing in gender equality, inclusive value chains and women’s economic empowerment are critical to ensure sustainable and responsible business in the ASEAN Economic Community (AEC). Over the past decades, commitment to gender equality and women’s economic empowerment continue to gain grounds amongst governments, companies and development actors. However, women in South East Asia still face high levels of violence, discrimination and economic exclusion. The participation of women in the formal labour force dropped since 1980. In the agriculture sector women’ contributions and pivotal role is hardly recognised and rewarded, and women-led business continue to face disproportionate challenges. Gender differences are often bigger in ethnic minority groups. Barriers to women’s economic participation are underpinned by broader gender inequality, embedded in social norms, policies and business practice. Still, increasing women’s participation in these economies is potentially one of the most powerful ways to improve economic and development outcomes. The AEC provides a momentum to develop or strengthen partnerships between private sector, governments and civil society.

This workshop brings different stakeholders together – companies, women farmers, social entrepreneurs, governments and development actors – to address critical questions and to propose practical, innovative and transformative solutions to drive gender transformation in agriculture.

The workshop is organized by Oxfam with support from the Government of Sweden through its Embassy in Bangkok.

4. Consultation workshop: Implementing the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights (9:00am – 5:00pm, Thursday, 29 October 2015)

The UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights and its “Protect, Respect and Remedy” framework represents a landmark opportunity to raise the standards for corporate responsibility in protecting human rights and providing access to remedies. This session is designed to gather inputs from government, business and civil society stakeholders on how developing national and regional strategies on business and human rights can help create an enabling environment for the greater protection and respect of human rights in the context of ASEAN economic integration.

The workshop is co-organized by the ASEAN CSR Network and Singapore Management University with support from the Government of Sweden through its Embassy in Bangkok, the Asia-Europe Foundation (ASEF) with the financial support of the European Union, and the British Institute of International and Comparative Law.

MAIN FORUM

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ASEAN Responsible Business Forum

“Promoting responsible business practice in the ASEAN Economic Community”
Wednesday, 28 October 2015 - Royale Chulan Damansara Hotel, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

MAIN FORUM PROGRAMME
(All timings and speakers subject to confirmation and change)
MAIN FORUM AGENDA
Wednesday, 28 October 2015
0800 Registration
0830 ASEAN COMMUNITY POST-2015: OPPORTUNITIES AND CHALLENGES FOR RESPONSIBLE BUSINESS

WELCOME REMARKS
  • Yanti Triwadiantini, Chair, ASEAN CSR Network
  • Cherian Mathews, Asia Regional Director, Oxfam GB
OPENING REMARKS
  • H.E. Bengt G Carlsson, Swedish Ambassador to Malaysia
  • H.E. Donald Bobiash, Canadian Ambassador to ASEAN, Indonesia & Timor Leste
  • H.E. Paul Rennie, British Deputy High Commissioner to Malaysia
GUEST OF HONOUR
  • YB Senator Datuk Paul Low Seng Kuan, Minister for Governance and Integrity, Prime Minister’s Department, Malaysia
0930 HIGH-LEVEL PANEL: BUILDING A MORE COMPETITIVE AND SUSTAINABLE ASEAN ECONOMIC COMMUNITY POST-2015 THROUGH RESPONSIBLE BUSINESS

PANELISTS:
  • Alois Hofbauer, Chair of Ethical Business Committee of Federation of Malaysian Manufacturers (FMM), Managing Director and Regional Head of Nestlé Malaysia/Singapore/Brunei
  • Marie Lisa M. Dacanay, President, Institute for Social Entrepreneurship in Asia (ISEA)
  • YBhg Tan Sri Dato’ Sri Lim Wee Chai, Chairman, Top Glove Corporation Berhad
  • Santi Wasanasiri, PTT Group Sustainability Alignment Commitee (SAC) and Vice President, Innovation and Sustainability, Thai Oil Group
  • Anjan Ghosh, Regional Director-Corporate Affairs, Asia-Pacific & Japan, Intel
MODERATOR: Rico Hizon, Anchorperson, BBC World News (Asia Business Report)
1045 Tea Break
1115 FOCUSED SESSION 1: PROMOTING THE BUSINESS RESPONSIBILITY TO RESPECT HUMAN RIGHTS

PANELISTS:
  • Tan Sri Dr Muhammad Shafee Abdullah, Chair & Representative of Malaysia, ASEAN Intergovernmental Commission on Human Rights (AICHR)
  • Rafendi Djamin, Representative of Indonesia, AICHR
  • Michael K. Addo, Chairperson, UN Working Group on Business and Human Rights
  • Suon Bunsak, Chief of Secretariat, Cambodian Human Rights Action Committee
  • Dato' Dr. Aishah Bidin, Commissioner, Human Rights Commission of Malaysia (SUHAKAM)
MODERATOR: Ray Paolo J. Santiago, Secretary General, Working Group for an ASEAN Human Rights Mechanism
1230 Lunch Break
1400 FOCUSED SESSION 2: THINK BIG, GO SMALL – NEW BUSINESS MODELS FOR INCLUSIVE AND SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE IN ASEAN

KEYNOTE SPEAKER: H.E. Dr. Segredo R. Serrano, Undersecretary for Policy and Planning, Department of Agriculture, Philippines

PANELISTS:
  • Puvan Selvanathan, Head of International Trade Centre Office to the UN, and Special Advisor on Food and Agriculture Business, UN Global Compact
  • Datuk Darrel Webber, Secretary General, Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO)
  • Bambang Ismawan, Founder & Chairman of Board of Trustees, Bina Swadaya (Indonesia), and Founding co-Chair of Institute for Social Entrepreneurship in Asia (ISEA)
  • Pacita Juan, Founder & President of Echostore Sustainable Lifestyle, President of Women’s Business Council (Philippines)
  • Biswaranjan Sen, Vice President Procurement Chemicals, Unilever
MODERATOR: Erinch Sahan, Senior Policy Adviser on Business and Markets, Oxfam GB Asia
1520 Tea Break
1550 FOCUSED SESSION 3: CREATING A CULTURE OF INTEGRITY IN THE ASEAN BUSINESS COMMUNITY

PANELISTS
  • Anis Yusal Yusoff, President, Malaysian Institute of Integrity (INTEGRITI)
  • Jermyn Brooks, Chair of Business Advisory Board, Transparency International, and Chair of 10th Principle Working Group, UN Global Compact
  • Nguyen Quang Vinh, Deputy Secretary General of Vietnam Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Trustee of ACN, Member of Working Group on Business Integrity in ASEAN
  • Atty, Alexander B. Cabrera, representing Integrity Initiative, Inc. (Philippines) & Chairman and Senior Partner, Isla Lipana & Co.
  • Richard G.Thomas OBE, Senior Advisor to the Board and Chief Representative, Malaysia, Gatehouse Bank
  • Hew Chooi Yoke, Partner, PricewaterhouseCoopers Malaysia

MODERATOR: Francesco Checchi, Regional Anti-Corruption Adviser, Regional Office for Southeast Asia and the Pacific, UNODC

1710 FORUM CLOSING REMARKS: IDENTIFYING KEY TAKE-AWAYS FOR ASEAN
  • Thomas Thomas, CEO, ASEAN CSR Network
  • Amit Vatsyayan, Regional Manager – Economic Empowerment, Oxfam GB Asia
1730 End of Forum
1730 - 1900 NETWORKING RECEPTION AND,
LAUNCH OF OXFAM’S REGIONAL PAPER ON INCLUSIVE AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT

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