Activating the social responsibility of the business sector through a national strategy for organizing work

Damascus-Homs-Sana

The social and economic conditions experienced by Syria as a result of the terrorist and economic war have led to the emergence of the importance of social responsibility of economic companies and make them linked to market conditions and an important factor to increase the confidence of dealers and the development of financial revenues, while many private companies play an important role in the social aspect, despite the limited business and results achieved.

Dr. Nabil Al-Qaseer, General Manager of Pharmaceutical Industries Company, explained to SANA Economic Bulletin the importance of the positive role of companies through promoting social responsibility through several trends, the most important of which is the effective training of youth within the company and providing job opportunities for them in addition to the distribution of medicines in coordination with charities to reach the beneficiaries demanding government supportive steps. For this orientation.

In turn, Bassam Al-Mansour, Director of Hassia Industrial City, pointed out in a similar statement the need to work to enhance corporate social responsibility, which is what the Industrial City is working on, indicating the need to train cadres and qualify managers, technicians and workers in preparation for the reconstruction phase of Syria.

The head of the Homs Chamber of Industry Labib pointed out the importance of the social responsibility of private economic companies in the coming period to help the government agencies to bear the burdens and the consequences of the war that exhausted the society, stressing that the issue needs to have laws governing and legislation to protect them.

For his part, Dr. Alaa Al-Asfari, marketing manager at a pharmaceutical company and an expert in human resources that CSR is divided into three sections, the first towards the elements of the company and their families through financial support and the second external social responsibility lies in sponsoring different programs such as health, awareness and training Local education, training or health.

Pharmaceuticals Samia Sarkis stressed the importance of launching the first conference in Homs on the promotion of corporate social responsibility organized by the International Youth Chamber under the auspices of the Ministry of Social Affairs, where he dealt with social responsibility and laws governing human resources and their importance in the development of individuals and activate the community system, pointing to the need for a five-year strategic plan to implement this Go on the ground.

For his part, Dr. Najib Al-Farra, President of the International Chamber of Young Boys in Homs, pointed to the need to develop a real role for companies in the community wheel, stressing the Chamber's quest to launch a partnership between economic companies and community associations to benefit companies and market for themselves, noting that the social role of industrial companies is still modest in Homs.

In a related context, the consultative meeting held at the Damascus Chamber of Commerce on social responsibility recommended the need to develop a national strategy to unify work efforts in community activities.

The recommendations obtained by SANA Economic Bulletin focus on the development of a national strategy to unify efforts so as to know who is able to provide work and training and support social entrepreneurship and the stability of business legislation to allow him to contribute to social and social responsibility and develop a plan of action to ensure its sustainability.

The recommendations stressed the need to believe in the issue of social responsibility towards society and to convert it into existing law and legislation and imposed and not just work and attention to make social programs stand-alone in the future and work to cover their expenses self-identified basket of development projects to be ready for funding for those who wish to support social responsibility and academic development of social responsibility within Universities to align this responsibility with the SDGs and establish a structure that regulates social responsibility within the Ministry of Social Affairs and Labor and assesses its impact systematically and within ISO standards and the application of ISO 26000 Social responsibility.

One of the recommendations of the Forum is that the companies participating in social responsibility support micro-projects and support people with disabilities in the community through work and study while maintaining the incentives of social responsibility in the community and encourage NGOs to establish forums and seminars and consultative and dialogue sessions to define social responsibility.

The recommendations called for the establishment of a joint council to organize and develop the national strategy to unify efforts in community activities and assess the social impact of social responsibility and the need to distinguish between public relations companies to promote their activities on the basics of social responsibility of sustainable development dimensions and the allocation of a special section or person responsible full-time and qualified each company for Social responsibility and documentation of social responsibility acts historically in Syria, old and new.

Ahmed Suleiman-Saba Khair Bey

SANA Economic Bulletin