Why don you have national partner organisations in all European countries?
Ideally, we would like to have national CSR partners in each European country, including Central and Eastern Europe, and the network is certainly expanding in this direction. Nevertheless it is important to understand that each country defines the concept of corporate social responsibility in a very different way, and that they all have historically different approaches to tackling the issue. In order to ensure cohesion among national partner organisations (NPO), the NPO network has set criteria, for example, that NPOs should be recognised non-profit organisations, business driven, and membership-based. The network is keen to keep a wide and varied coverage of CSR topics across Europe, but while retaining diversity is vitally important, the network recognises the need to have some consistency in its approach to CSR. Not having a national partner in a specific country does NOT mean that this country is lagging behind on CSR issues. We try to maintain regular contact with CSR leaders fro
