Responsible Business Forum - Programme
Workshops
ASEAN Responsible Business Forum
“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 Download Consultation Workshop
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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 |
1400 - 1730 |
Training Workshop: Corporate Best Practices and Legal Trends in Tackling Corruption & Bribery Venue: Royale 3 & 4 |
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
ASEAN Responsible Business Forum
“Promoting responsible business practice in the ASEAN Economic Community”
MAIN FORUM PROGRAMME
(All timings and speakers subject to confirmation and change)
MAIN FORUM AGENDA Wednesday, 28 October 2015 |
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0800 | Registration |
0830 | ASEAN COMMUNITY POST-2015: OPPORTUNITIES AND CHALLENGES FOR RESPONSIBLE BUSINESS WELCOME REMARKS
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0930 | HIGH-LEVEL PANEL: BUILDING A MORE COMPETITIVE AND SUSTAINABLE ASEAN ECONOMIC COMMUNITY POST-2015 THROUGH RESPONSIBLE BUSINESS PANELISTS:
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1045 | Tea Break |
1115 | FOCUSED SESSION 1: PROMOTING THE BUSINESS RESPONSIBILITY TO RESPECT HUMAN RIGHTS PANELISTS:
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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:
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1520 | Tea Break |
1550 | FOCUSED SESSION 3: CREATING A CULTURE OF INTEGRITY IN THE ASEAN BUSINESS COMMUNITY PANELISTS
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
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1730 | End of Forum |
1730 - 1900 | NETWORKING RECEPTION AND, LAUNCH OF OXFAM’S REGIONAL PAPER ON INCLUSIVE AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT |
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