Call for Entries – Video Contest – Social & Environmental Entrepreneurship
MegaCities-ShortDocs, and NGO set up end of 2014 in Paris (Full Terms & Conditions of MEGACITIES SHORTDOCS FESTIVAL 2018
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The Schwarzman Scholars Application is Live!
The Schwarzman Scholars application for the 2019-2020 academic year is now available. They look forward to meeting another outstanding group of talented, young leaders from across the globe. The importance of their mission, to build greater understanding between China and the rest of the world, couldn’t be more evident today. The third class of 142…
read moreThe Importance of Stakeholder Engagement in Achieving Social Responsibility Objectives
Nigeria’s Corporate Social Responsibility literature is replete with copious examples of failed and abandoned development projects running into huge millions of naira. Human Rights Watch states in one of its reports that almost every community in the Delta area of Nigeria has a failed, abandoned or non-functioning water or electricity scheme sponsored by multinational oil…
read moreThe Case for Diversity and Inclusion in Engendering Organisational Effectiveness
inclusion is any effort geared towards ensuring that everyone is accepted, welcomed, respected and treated equally everywhere on earth’s surface, their differences notwithstanding. In our imperfect world, diversity has been a force for good and a vehicle for strife and disintegration as we have seen it in the realities of ethnic chauvinism and religious jingoism…
read moreNPC Puts Nigerian Population at 198m, Seventh Largest in the World
The National Population Commission (NPC) has put Nigeria’s current population at 198 million people with urban population growing at an average annual growth rate of about 6.5 per cent. Chairman of NPC, Mr. Eze Duruiheoma, stated this in New York while delivering Nigeria’s statement on Sustainable Cities, Human Mobility and International Migration at the 51st…
read moreNigeria LNG Limited (NLNG) Prize for Science 2018
This is to inform the general public that the NLNG Prize for Science 2018 application process has started (The Nigerian Prize). This annual prize for Science is endowed by Nigeria LNG Limited (NLNG) to recognise outstanding scientific achievements by Nigerians and non-Nigerians alike for advancing scientific solutions to prescribed problems afflicting Nigeria as captured by…
read moreEffective Transportation Systems as a Catalyst for Socio-Economic Development
Globalisation and internalisation have made it exigent for people to be and remain connected across cities, countries and continents. Globalisation has broken down walls, expanded trade frontiers and made it imperative for so many people to be in different places within a short period of time. History even shows that civilisations like Egypt, Greece and…
read moreSustainable Finance: From Bottom Line to Triple Bottom Line
Several studies have indicated that the future of finance is not in short-term value assets but in medium to long-term value assets. A major reason for the focus on medium to long-term investments is that short-term investments stand the risk of becoming stranded assets over time, as is the case of coal in some regions…
read moreActionAid, Oxfam Calls for Incentivisation of CSR Actions
ActionAid Nigeria, AAN and Oxfam, have called on the government to incentivise Corporate Social Responsibility, CSR actions to further encourage the continuity and sustainability of projects and programmes which could impact positively on community development. David Nwachukwu, chairman, steering committee, Strengthening Public Finance in Nigeria, STREPFIN, disclosed this to newsmen at a press briefing recently…
read moreChatham House Academy Africa Fellowship
Chatham House is pleased to invite applicants for the Academy Africa Fellowship in the Queen Elizabeth II Academy for Leadership in International Affairs. Eligibility criteria Citizenship The fellowship is open to citizens of Cote d’Ivoire, Kenya, Nigeria, Senegal, or South Africa. Applications will also be accepted from applicants holding dual nationality which includes one of…
read moreCSR and Vendor Management: The Responsibility Corporates Owe Vendors
The proliferation of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) as the most important index of Corporate Social Responsibility in Supply Chains of Global Brands: A Boundaryless Responsibility? Clarifications, Exceptions and Implications. Amaeshi K., Osuji O., & Nnodim P. Journal of Business Ethics, Vol. 81, no 1, pp. 223-234, 2008. AA1000 Stakeholder Engagement Standard. AccountAbility, 2015. 3 Tips…
read moreSocial Sustainability Solutions to Water Crisis in Extractives Communities
Water stress is a global challenge that also exists largely in many of the world’s mining sites. While the Earth has finite freshwater water resources, increased population growth, business activities and lately climate change has further worsened the already bad situation. In newly discovered extractive communities some of the quickly observable features that occur is…
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