Corporate Social Responsibility in Moldova: What the Government Can Do?
Project title: Corporate Social Responsibility Policy Development;
Implementation period: October 22 – November 22, 2010;
Funded by: UNDP-Moldova;
Project goal: Identify tools that public authorities may use to stimulate companies to adopt Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) practices, the companies needs related to CSR and inform the policymakers about the findings;
Main activities:
- Developed a questionnaire for assessing the level of CSR of Moldovan firms;
- Applied the CSR questionnaire to interview companies with the view of identifying their CSR practices and needs;
- Conducted in-depth interviews with companies CEOs and representatives of the Government to get a better understanding of challenges and expectations companies and Government have regarding the CSR;
- Wrote a policy study informing the public about the research findings;
Main outputs and outcomes:
Project impact:
The project has identified main business-society interaction models found in the world and in Moldova. The study developed as part of the project has shown that despite all efforts undertaken so far, the CSR remains a concept little understood among Moldovan companies; from another hand, Moldovan companies are not strange to the philanthropy actions, even though they are done in a rather unstructured manner. The study suggests that the main role in promotion of the CSR has to be played by business associations rather than by the Government.