Outlined in our mission statement, the role and engagement of
the private companies in community development is essential in
order to achieve social integration in Lebanon. The Saradar IT
Programme meant, through its objectives and activities, to
promote the concept of Corporate Social Responsibility. SITP
represented the perfect opportunity for Fondation Saradar to
establish an effective partnership between the Business sector and
civil society. The selection of partners from the private sector
only is no coincidence. Based on this first attempt, which
resulted in a very successful social project, the foundation seeks
to develop this new private business/community relation into a
more strategic and durable partnership.
This very positive experience of the support of a private
institution, Banque Saradar, to a pilot IT Project initiated by a
non-governmental organization, in conformity with its sponsorship
strategy and long tradition of social engagement, was selected by
the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)/United Nations
Volunteers (UNV) and the New Academy of Business (a UK based
institution) as one of the ten cases studies of the project
Enhancing Business Community Relations. (Click here to view details of the study).
BUSINESS SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY