tailieunhanh - Guide to Responsible Business Engagement with Water Policy November 2010

Official policies for SME development can be evaluated against their impact upon enterprise culture, start-up, survival and growth of SMEs, and stakeholder empathy. Each of these criteria feeds off the others. Enterprise culture will be strong where there are high rates of SME growth. Where SMEs are dominant features in the local and regional economic and social environment, stakeholders themselves will be influenced and will adjust their behaviour accordingly. This template of culture and business and stakeholder development may be used in very different country contexts. Each country has different problems and opportunities and therefore priorities for change and resource availability will vary. These factors. | The CEO Water Mandate Guide to Responsible Business Engagement with Water Policy November 2010 Drafting Team Jason Morrison Peter Schulte and Juliet Christian-Smith Pacific Institute Oakland California USA Stuart Orr World Wildlife Fund - International Gland Switzerland Nick Hepworth Water Witness International Edinburgh United Kingdom Guy Pegram Pegasys Strategy Development Cape Town South Africa Acknowledgements The Mandate Secretariat and drafting team would like to thank the German Society for Technical Cooperation GTZ for its funding and support of this Guide. We would like to recognize and thank the members of the Mandate s Policy Engagement Working Group PEWG as well as working group facilitator Rob Greenwood Ross Associates for their invaluable insights and contributions throughout the development of this Guide. We also wish to thank all CEO Water Mandate endorsing companies and stakeholders from various organizations and sectors who offered comments on the annotated outline and numerous drafts of this Guide. Lastly we would like to express our appreciation to the staff of the Pacific Institute who provided valuable insight and editing suggestions. Disclaimer All of the views expressed in this report are those of the CEO Water Mandate and do not necessarily reflect those of German Society for Technical Cooperation GTZ or the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development. Designer Dana Biegel Cover photo Playboots Photos p9 David Mcshane p10 Birdmanphoto p16 Ponta Radu p19 Hawkren p20 Wally Stemberger Shutterstock p23 Maksimilian Shutterstock p24 Agmcb p26 KKulikov Shutterstock p27 Ben Heys p28 Nikhil Gangavane p31 Matthew Weinel p33 Joe Gough Shutterstock p35 Andrey Kekyalyaynen Shutterstock p36 Lee Snider p39 Videowokart .