Raising awareness about the link between Corporate Social Responsibility and Development in order to promote and encourage the achievement of UN's Millennium Development Goal #8: A Global Partnership for Development. However, most countries are lagging behind and it seems difficult to reach the eight anti-poverty goals by 2015. 8 therefore believes that it is of utmost importance to create more aw
areness in order to speed the global process up. By developing an awareness campaign 8 will involve NGOs, citizen movements, as well as the private and public sectors in order to promote and achieve MDG 8: Develop a Global Partnership for Development.
8 believes that the way in which business can play an active role in the achievement of MDG 8 is by complying and implementing Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) standards. 8 sees CSR as a global tool in the fight against poverty. However, in the current trade dynamics, companies are not the only actors to be focused on. The interconnectedness of modern value and production chains with topics like development, fair living conditions, human rights, and environmental practices, has resulted in a world where citizens, NGOs, and the public sector are direct stakeholders and therefore play an important role in CSR as well.
