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OAS and Colombian Private Sector to Discuss Corporate Social Responsibility

  October 9, 2012

The Organization of American States (OAS), the National Business Association of Colombia (ANDI) and the Bernard Van Leer Foundation will hold the 7th Meeting of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), which brings together representatives of international academic institutions, government officials, businessmen and representatives of national and international organizations on October 11 and 12 in Cali, Colombia.

The agenda of the event will focus on the challenges of the private sector regarding the strategic importance of private social investment as part of the CSR model, its articulation through public policy; networks of social institutional capital, and the trends, advances, innovations and experiences in private social investment. Participants will also discuss the importance of investing in early childhood from the perspective of human development, social capital, competitiveness and sustainable development.

The meeting, which will be held together with the 2nd Inter-American Meeting of CSR and Early Childhood, will be coordinated by the Executive Secretariat for Integral Development of the OAS, the Corporate Social Responsibility Management of ANDI and the Van Leer Foundation.

For more information contact Jane Piazer at the Office of Education and Culture of the OAS, through e-mail:[email protected].

WHAT: 7th Meeting of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR)

WHEN: October 11 and 12, 2012

WHERE: Centro de Eventos del Valle Pacífico
Calle 15 # 26-120 Autopista Cali
Yumbo, Cali, Colombia

Reference: AVI-208/12