Initiatives to promote corporate social responsibility should be voluntary.

Action points should appear in the new UNDP corporate gender strategy and action plan.

2005 4 UNDP corporate gender strategy and action plan

2005 4 UNDP corporate gender strategy and action plan

Youth for Unity and Voluntary Action (2000 2003)

Explanatory note on the UNDP corporate gender strategy and action plan (DP 2005 CRP.9)

Adopted decision 2005 4 of 28 January 2005 on the UNDP corporate gender strategy and action plan

The Executive Board endorsed the corporate gender strategy of UNDP and the interim action plan for 2005.

Opportunities for citizens to be engaged through voluntary action at the local level and have their action recorded and recognized are steadily expanding.

Takes note of the explanatory note on the UNDP corporate gender strategy and action plan (DP 2005 CRP.9)

This would require adequately addressing uptake problems with foreign technologies and ensuring that any technology market failures could be mitigated through appropriate regulatory responses and voluntary corporate initiatives.

The present report has provided many examples of how voluntary action is being facilitated at all levels.

Furthermore, it was important to consider the framework of corporate accountability and to examine the relationship between voluntary and regulatory approaches so as to ascertain the complementarities between them.

Print and broadcast media coverage of voluntary action has grown steadily in a number of countries since 2001.

If the twenty second session finds these revisions comprehensive and acceptable, it could recommend the finalization and dissemination of this report as voluntary guidance on good practices on corporate governance disclosure that could contribute towards further convergence of disclosures in this area to improve corporate transparency and facilitate investment.

After deliberating on various aspects of corporate responsibility reporting, the Group of Experts had agreed to continue its work in that area with a view to developing guidance on voluntary disclosures.

Noting the increasing voluntary use of collective action clauses in sovereign bond contracts by both developing and developed countries,

The HIV AIDS pandemic appears to have catalysed voluntary action from communities in support of victims and their families.

In Colombia, the government department concerned with coordinating the country's solidarity economy has been tasked with facilitating voluntary action.

Bolivia is an example of a developing country whose economic and social planning reflects the contribution of voluntary action.

Some websites, for example at the World Food Programme, carry articles on voluntary action in their areas of specialization.

More efforts are needed to disseminate information about the rich diversity of voluntary action, stressing the value of all forms of voluntary participation, including mutual aid and campaigning alongside service oriented volunteer work.

For example ISO 14064 on Greenhouse gases, US DOE 1605(b) on General Guidelines for Voluntary Greenhouse Gas Reporting, WRI WBCSD on The Greenhouse Gas Protocol A Corporate Accounting and Reporting Standard.

It saw merit in the Global Compact as one of several voluntary corporate responsibility initiatives and was keenly interested in the plans to establish an advisory board and tighten the reporting system.

The Executive Board requested a corporate gender strategy and action plan, for which the gender unit submitted a revised version in April 2005.

Grundsatzkommission Corporate Governance (German Panel for Corporate Governance) (2000). Corporate Governance Rules for German Quoted Companies.

8. Stresses the importance of good corporate governance and corporate social responsibility, and encourages the Global Compact Office to continue to foster responsible business practices and to promote the sharing of best practices and positive action through learning, dialogue and partnerships

This has given rise to a variety of efforts to promote and facilitate voluntary action among specific segments of the population.

At the level of targeted populations, several United Nations organizations are mobilizing voluntary action through the projects and programmes they support.

However, Governments, supported by the United Nations system, should recognize the needs and potential of all segments of the population to participate through voluntary action and should actively facilitate such action.

During the ad hoc consultations, it was re emphasized that ISAR's guidance on corporate governance disclosures would be a voluntary technical aid for, among others, regulators and companies in developing countries and transition economies.

Mandatory (e.g. performance requirements), inducive (e.g. incentives) and hortatory (e.g. voluntary guidelines) approaches to increasing corporate contributions to development have been pursued at various times, in various circumstances and with various degrees of success.

The International Year of Volunteers played a very important part in raising awareness in many countries as regards the role and contribution of voluntary action in almost every sphere of human development and led, in many cases, to the introduction or strengthening of proactive approaches at the national level to supporting voluntary action.

Statement on Global Corporate Governance Principles. International Corporate Governance Network.

Welcoming the efforts by Member States to submit, on a voluntary basis, national reports on their implementation of the Programme of Action,

Welcoming the efforts by Member States to submit, on a voluntary basis, national reports on their implementation of the Programme of Action,

It would be necessary to secure a greater flow of resources, including into the Voluntary Trust Fund for Assistance in Mine Action.

Revised Statement on Global Corporate Governance Principles. International Corporate Governance Network.

Finance Committee on Corporate Governance (2000). Malaysian Code on Corporate Governance.

Welcoming also the efforts by Member States to submit, on a voluntary basis, national reports on their implementation of the Programme of Action,

(d) Voluntary guidelines based on the Rio Forest Principles3 to support the implementation of the IPF IFF proposals for action on the ground

Corporate Governance Committee (2004). The Belgian Code on Corporate Governance ('Lippens Code')

Committee on Corporate Governance (1999). Code of Best Practice for Corporate Governance.

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