Corporate Social Responsibility For Improving Human Settlements Through Voluntary And Private Sector Partnerships In Selected Southeast Asian Developing Countries
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Date
2009-11
Authors
Dennis Kin, Keung Cheung
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Universiti Sains Malaysia
Abstract
physical upgrading and
community capacity building. Private sector involvement through corporate social
responsibility (CSR), and the use of voluntary and private sector partnership as a tool to
deliver, facilitate and improve the CSR are believed to be the new development approach.
These enable diverse, complementary and more resources to be drawn together to give
supports to human settlement development. The adoption of the CSR through partnership
can bring benefits to all parties, including the served communities and the involved
corporations and voluntary organizations (VOs). Although the development of the
partnership is important and provides potential benefits, reviews based on secondary data
show that it is still not popular in most Southeast Asian countries. Previous research on this
topic is also scarce.
This research investigates the current concerned partnership activities in selected Southeast
Asian countries, including Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines,
Thailand and Vietnam. The scope is limited to those partnerships between corporations and
VOs involved in improving human settlement fabrics associated with capacity building for
the poor in both urban and rural areas. The human settlement fabrics include shelter quality,
power, communications and information technology, transports and networks, water supply
and connections, sanitation, solid waste management, community space and social facilities.
The nature and scale of the corporations and VOs examined are open, but focus on those
having headquarters and/or affiliates in Southeast Asia. Using a qualitative approach, the
data of this research were collected from March 2007 to September 2008. The main data
sources are based on literatures and public reports of the corporations and VOs which
include published and online reports of 86 corporations and 30 VOs. The data collection
was supplemented by the experiences and opinions of the relevant corporations, VOs and
other professional individuals/organizations gathered through individual interviews and
conference panel discussions.
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Corporate Social Responsibility For Improving Human Settlements , Through Voluntary And Private Sector Partnerships