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BUSINESS STANDARDS
Business standards are at the root of IBLF's approach to responsible business.
Applying sound business standards can contribute directly to improved competitiveness and a better reputation - but the fact is that reputation has to be earned and won through demonstrable action, not just PR and communications.
IBLF helps companies understand key development issues such as human rights, corruption, health, conflict resolution and enterprise development - and provide a suitable response to these key issues.
We do this in three main ways:
This means that responsible companies need to address issues such as:
Through engagement with IBLF, companies are able to tackle these issues, and ensure that they have a positive impact on the societies in which they operate.
Working at two levels
IBLF has adopted a two-fold approach: working at the headquarters level of companies to develop policies and frameworks, and then testing these methods out in practice.
To achieve this, IBLF works in partnership with other organisations that have either local or sector-specific expertise.
For example, IBLF has produced publications and organised workshops about human rights with Amnesty International and has facilitated dialogues in Colombia working with a local organisation Fundacion Ideas para La Paz and the UN Global Compact.
Applying sound business standards can contribute directly to improved competitiveness and a better reputation - but the fact is that reputation has to be earned and won through demonstrable action, not just PR and communications.
IBLF helps companies understand key development issues such as human rights, corruption, health, conflict resolution and enterprise development - and provide a suitable response to these key issues.
We do this in three main ways:
- Raising awareness of development issues within the business community
- Making the business case for a suitable response to these challenges
- Providing frameworks for a business response to these issues
This means that responsible companies need to address issues such as:
- Respecting the rights of workers, communities and customers
- Resisting corruption
- Protecting the health and safety of workers
- Stimulating the economic development of host communities
- Recognising their role in situations of conflict and peace-building
Through engagement with IBLF, companies are able to tackle these issues, and ensure that they have a positive impact on the societies in which they operate.
Working at two levels
IBLF has adopted a two-fold approach: working at the headquarters level of companies to develop policies and frameworks, and then testing these methods out in practice.
To achieve this, IBLF works in partnership with other organisations that have either local or sector-specific expertise.
For example, IBLF has produced publications and organised workshops about human rights with Amnesty International and has facilitated dialogues in Colombia working with a local organisation Fundacion Ideas para La Paz and the UN Global Compact.