The Ten Principles The UN Global Compact's ten principles in the areas of human rights, labour, the environment and anti-corruption enjoy universal consensus and are derived from:
•The Universal Declaration of Human Rights •The International Labour Organization's Declaration on Fundamental Principles and Rights at Work •The Rio Declaration on Environment and Development •The United Nations Convention Against Corruption The UN Global Compact asks companies to embrace, support and enact, within their sphere of influence, a set of core values in the areas of human rights, labour standards, the environment and anti-corruption:
Human Rights
•Principle 1: Businesses should support and respect the protection of internationally proclaimed human rights; and •Principle 2: make sure that they are not complicit in human rights abuses. Labour
•Principle 3: Businesses should uphold the freedom of association and the effective recognition of the right to collective bargaining; •Principle 4: the elimination of all forms of forced and compulsory labour; •Principle 5: the effective abolition of child labour; and •Principle 6: the elimination of discrimination in respect of employment and occupation.
Environment
•Principle 7: Businesses should support a precautionary approach to environmental challenges; •Principle 8: undertake initiatives to promote greater environmental responsibility; and •Principle 9: encourage the development and diffusion of environmentally friendly technologies. Anti-Corruption
•Principle 10: Businesses should work against corruption in all its forms, including extortion and bribery.
N. R. Narayana Murthy Chairman Emeritus N. R. Narayana Murthy is the Founder-Chairman of Infosys, a global software consulting company headquartered in Bangalore, India. He founded Infosys in 1981. Under his leadership, Infosys was listed on NASDAQ in 1999. Mr. Murthy articulated, designed and implemented the Global Delivery Model which has become the foundation for the huge success in IT services outsourcing from India. He has led key corporate governance initiatives in India. He is an IT advisor to several Asian countries. He serves on the boards of HSBC, Ford Foundation and the UN Foundation. He served as a member of the Unilever board between 2007 and 2010. He also serves on the boards of Wharton School; Indian School of Business, Hyderabad; Rhodes Trust, and International Institute of Information Technology, Bangalore. The Economist ranked Narayana Murthy among the ten most-admired global business leaders in 2005. He topped the Economic Times list of India’s most powerful CEOs for three consecutive years: 2004 to 2006. He has been awarded the Padma Vibhushan by the Government of India, the Légion d’honneur by the Government of France, and the CBE by the British government. He is the first Indian winner of the Ernst & Young World Entrepreneur Of The Year award and the Max Schmidheiny Liberty prize, and has appeared in the rankings of businessmen and innovators published by India Today, Business Standard, Forbes, BusinessWeek, Time, CNN, Fortune, and Financial Times. He is a Fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering and a foreign member of the US National Academy of Engineering.
ITC's pre-eminent position as one of India's leading corporates in the agricultural sector is based on strong and enduring farmer partnerships that has revolutionized and transformed the rural agricultural sector. A unique rural digital infrastructure network, coupled with deep understanding of agricultural practices and intensive research, has built a competitive and efficient supply chain that creates and delivers immense value across the agricultural value chain. One of the largest exporters of agri products from the country, ITC sources the finest of Indian Feed Ingredients, Food Grains, Marine Products, Processed Fruits, Coffee & Spices.
ITC's Agri Business Division is the country's second largest exporter of agri-products. It currently focuses on exports and domestic trading of:
Feed Ingredients - Soyameal Food Grains - Rice (Basmati), Wheat Marine Products - Shrimps and Prawns Processed Fruits - Fruit Purees/Concentrates, IQF/Frozen Fruits, Organic Fruit Products, Fresh Fruits Coffee & Spices - Coffee, Black Pepper, Chilly, Turmeric, Ginger, Celery and other Seed Spices Farmer empowerment through e-Choupals
ITC's unique strength in this business is the extensive backward linkages it has established with the farmers. This networking with the farming community has enabled ITC to build a highly cost effective procurement system. ITC has made significant investments in web-enabling the Indian farmer. Christened 'e-Choupal', ITC's empowerment plan for the farmer centres around providing Internet kiosks in villages. Farmers use this technology infrastructure to access on-line information from ITC's farmer-friendly website www.echoupal.com. Data accessed by the farmers relate to the weather, crop conditions, best practices in farming, ruling international prices and a host of other relevant information. e-Choupal today is the world's largest rural digital infrastructure.
Choupal Saagar
Following the success of the e-Choupal, the Company launched Choupal Saagar, a physical infrastructure hub that comprises collection and storage facilities and a unique rural hypermarket that offers multiple services under one roof. This landmark infrastructure, which has set new benchmarks for rural consumers also incorporates farmer facilitation centres with services such as sourcing, training, soil testing, health clinic, cafeteria, banking, investment services, fuel station etc. 24 'Choupal Saagars' have commenced operations in the states of Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra and Uttar Pradesh. ITC is engaged in scaling up the rural retailing initiative to establish a chain of 100 Choupal Saagars in the near future.
Choupal Fresh
Choupal Fresh, ITC's fresh food wholesale and retail initiative, leverages its extensive backward linkages with farmers and supply chain efficiencies. It focuses on stocking fresh horticulture produce like fresh fruits and vegetables. Choupal Fresh retail stores are currently operational at Hyderabad. The company has also set up a complete cold chain for ensuring the availability of fresh products in the market, besides directly sourcing farm fresh produce from the farmers.
Choupal Pradarshan Khet
In line with its mission of improving the quality of life in rural India, ITC's Agri Business has launched a flagship extension programme called 'Choupal Pradarshan Khet' (CPK) or demonstration plots to help farmers enhance farm productivity by adopting agricultural best practices. Started in 2005-06, the crop portfolio includes soya, paddy, cotton, maize, bajra, wheat, gram, mustard, sunflower and potato. This initiative, has covered over 70,000 hectares and has a multiplier impact and reaches out to 1.6 million farmers.
Thanks for putting wonderful principles of UN global compact which should really guide the corporates to develop a frame work that facilitates better economic development without endangering business ecosystem. Can you throw some light as how our Sri Sri Agribusiness Academy could participate in the UN GLOBAL COMPACT PROGRAMME. I would rather suggest you to take leadership in initiating a dialogue by inviting couple of people within the Ashram and opening the topic for discussion and then passing some resolution and sending them to UN headquarters. See if you can do somthing about it.
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The Ten Principles
The UN Global Compact's ten principles in the areas of human rights, labour, the environment and anti-corruption enjoy universal consensus and are derived from:
•The Universal Declaration of Human Rights
•The International Labour Organization's Declaration on Fundamental Principles and Rights at Work
•The Rio Declaration on Environment and Development
•The United Nations Convention Against Corruption
The UN Global Compact asks companies to embrace, support and enact, within their sphere of influence, a set of core values in the areas of human rights, labour standards, the environment and anti-corruption:
Human Rights
•Principle 1: Businesses should support and respect the protection of internationally proclaimed human rights; and
•Principle 2: make sure that they are not complicit in human rights abuses.
Labour
•Principle 3: Businesses should uphold the freedom of association and the effective recognition of the right to collective bargaining;
•Principle 4: the elimination of all forms of forced and compulsory labour;
•Principle 5: the effective abolition of child labour; and
•Principle 6: the elimination of discrimination in respect of employment and occupation.
Environment
•Principle 7: Businesses should support a precautionary approach to environmental challenges;
•Principle 8: undertake initiatives to promote greater environmental responsibility; and
•Principle 9: encourage the development and diffusion of environmentally friendly technologies.
Anti-Corruption
•Principle 10: Businesses should work against corruption in all its forms, including extortion and bribery.
N. R. Narayana Murthy
Chairman Emeritus
N. R. Narayana Murthy is the Founder-Chairman of Infosys, a global software consulting company headquartered in Bangalore, India. He founded Infosys in 1981. Under his leadership, Infosys was listed on NASDAQ in 1999.
Mr. Murthy articulated, designed and implemented the Global Delivery Model which has become the foundation for the huge success in IT services outsourcing from India. He has led key corporate governance initiatives in India. He is an IT advisor to several Asian countries.
He serves on the boards of HSBC, Ford Foundation and the UN Foundation. He served as a member of the Unilever board between 2007 and 2010. He also serves on the boards of Wharton School; Indian School of Business, Hyderabad; Rhodes Trust, and International Institute of Information Technology, Bangalore.
The Economist ranked Narayana Murthy among the ten most-admired global business leaders in 2005. He topped the Economic Times list of India’s most powerful CEOs for three consecutive years: 2004 to 2006. He has been awarded the Padma Vibhushan by the Government of India, the Légion d’honneur by the Government of France, and the CBE by the British government. He is the first Indian winner of the Ernst & Young World Entrepreneur Of The Year award and the Max Schmidheiny Liberty prize, and has appeared in the rankings of businessmen and innovators published by India Today, Business Standard, Forbes, BusinessWeek, Time, CNN, Fortune, and Financial Times. He is a Fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering and a foreign member of the US National Academy of Engineering.
ITC's pre-eminent position as one of India's leading corporates in the agricultural sector is based on strong and enduring farmer partnerships that has revolutionized and transformed the rural agricultural sector. A unique rural digital infrastructure network, coupled with deep understanding of agricultural practices and intensive research, has built a competitive and efficient supply chain that creates and delivers immense value across the agricultural value chain. One of the largest exporters of agri products from the country, ITC sources the finest of Indian Feed Ingredients, Food Grains, Marine Products, Processed Fruits, Coffee & Spices.
ITC's Agri Business Division is the country's second largest exporter of agri-products. It currently focuses on exports and domestic trading of:
Feed Ingredients - Soyameal
Food Grains - Rice (Basmati), Wheat
Marine Products - Shrimps and Prawns
Processed Fruits - Fruit Purees/Concentrates, IQF/Frozen Fruits, Organic Fruit Products, Fresh Fruits
Coffee & Spices - Coffee, Black Pepper, Chilly, Turmeric, Ginger, Celery and other Seed Spices
Farmer empowerment through e-Choupals
ITC's unique strength in this business is the extensive backward linkages it has established with the farmers. This networking with the farming community has enabled ITC to build a highly cost effective procurement system. ITC has made significant investments in web-enabling the Indian farmer. Christened 'e-Choupal', ITC's empowerment plan for the farmer centres around providing Internet kiosks in villages. Farmers use this technology infrastructure to access on-line information from ITC's farmer-friendly website www.echoupal.com. Data accessed by the farmers relate to the weather, crop conditions, best practices in farming, ruling international prices and a host of other relevant information.
e-Choupal today is the world's largest rural digital infrastructure.
Choupal Saagar
Following the success of the e-Choupal, the Company launched Choupal Saagar, a physical infrastructure hub that comprises collection and storage facilities and a unique rural hypermarket that offers multiple services under one roof. This landmark infrastructure, which has set new benchmarks for rural consumers also incorporates farmer facilitation centres with services such as sourcing, training, soil testing, health clinic, cafeteria, banking, investment services, fuel station etc. 24 'Choupal Saagars' have commenced operations in the states of Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra and Uttar Pradesh. ITC is engaged in scaling up the rural retailing initiative to establish a chain of 100 Choupal Saagars in the near future.
Choupal Fresh
Choupal Fresh, ITC's fresh food wholesale and retail initiative, leverages its extensive backward linkages with farmers and supply chain efficiencies. It focuses on stocking fresh horticulture produce like fresh fruits and vegetables. Choupal Fresh retail stores are currently operational at Hyderabad. The company has also set up a complete cold chain for ensuring the availability of fresh products in the market, besides directly sourcing farm fresh produce from the farmers.
Choupal Pradarshan Khet
In line with its mission of improving the quality of life in rural India, ITC's Agri Business has launched a flagship extension programme called 'Choupal Pradarshan Khet' (CPK) or demonstration plots to help farmers enhance farm productivity by adopting agricultural best practices. Started in 2005-06, the crop portfolio includes soya, paddy, cotton, maize, bajra, wheat, gram, mustard, sunflower and potato. This initiative, has covered over 70,000 hectares and has a multiplier impact and reaches out to 1.6 million farmers.
Dear Mr. Pandey,
Thanks for putting wonderful principles of UN global compact which should really guide the corporates to develop a frame work that facilitates better economic development without endangering business ecosystem. Can you throw some light as how our Sri Sri Agribusiness Academy could participate in the UN GLOBAL COMPACT PROGRAMME. I would rather suggest you to take leadership in initiating a dialogue by inviting couple of people within the Ashram and opening the topic for discussion and then passing some resolution and sending them to UN headquarters. See if you can do somthing about it.
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