U.S. Department of State

Overarching CSR and State Department

• State Department and CSR web page
• CSR Fact Sheet
• OECD Guidelines background and overview
• CSR Org Chart
• OECD MNE Guidelines
• OECD U.S. National Contact Point
• Conflict Diamonds & Minerals
• Secretary of State’s Award for Corporate Excellence (ACE) program

Overarching (non-State Department)

• B Corporations website
• Benefit Corporation public policy initiative to develop a new class of corporation
• OECD Guidelines 2011 – full document
• Business Civic Leadership Center website
• P&G Sustainability website
• Marriott Hotels reports and policies
• “Creating Shared Value,” Michael Porter and Mark Kramer. Harvard Business Review, Jan. 2011
• Shared Value in Two Minutes video
• The Business of a Better World (BSR) web site
• “Creating a Future We Want,” Alan Hecht et al. forthcoming in Sustainability: Science, Practice and Policy – contact event organizer for an electronic copy domaskjj@state.gov
• ISO 26000 Social Responsibility Standard

Labor Issues

• Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor – U.S. Department of State
• ILO Database of International Labor Standards and Statistics
• ILO Declaration on Fundamental Principles and Rights at work
• The UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights
• U.S. Department of Labor’s List of Goods Produced by Child Labor or Forced Labor
• See Human Rights below

Human Rights and Human Trafficking

• Voluntary Principles on Security and Human Rights – State Department and partners
• U.S. Department of State’s Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons
• The UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights
• National Human Trafficking Resource Center
• Luxor Implementation Guidelines to the Athens Ethical Principles
• E-Learning Tool for Business on Human Trafficking

Environment and Sustainability

• Nest Collective web site
• Nest Collective YouTube video Meet our Chief Dad & CEO with Founder Neil Grimmer
• WRI - Legal and Transparent Paper and Wood Supply Chains
• WRI - Water Related Risks
• WRI - Green Entrepreneurship
• WRI - Reducing Value Chain Carbon Emissions
• FSG - Environment
• Green Economy in the Context of Sustainable Development and Poverty Ereadication – remarks by DAS Larry Gumbiner – March 2011

Rule of Law and Anti-Corruption

• U.S. Efforts To Internationalize Action Against Corruption – State Department, Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs (INL)
• General background on INL programs and anti-corruption programs

Women and Gender

• Secretary's Office of Global Women's Issues (S/GWI)
• S/GWI’s Policies and Programs
• Secretary’s Fund for Women and Girls

Inclusive Employment

• Special Advisor for International Disability Rights (SADR), U.S. Department of State, DRL
• The ILO Global Business and Disability Network
• U.S. Department of Labor - Office of Disability Employment Policy (ODEP)
• Leading Practices on Disability Inclusion, produced by the US Business Leadership Network, published by the U.S. Dept. of Commerce

Conflict Diamonds and Conflict Minerals

• Joining together to Combat Conflict Minerals – State Department DipNote
• Property Rights and Artisanal Diamond Development: Feasibility of Direct Marketing of Artisanal Diamonds from Liberia and CAR to the USA
• Public-Private Alliance for Responsible Minerals Trade (PPA) – a new, joint initiative
• Diamond Development Initiative
• Solutions for Hope Project - Solutions and Brings Hope to the People of the DRC

Public-Private Partnerships

• Global Partnerships Initiative – U.S. Department of State, GPI
• Global Alliance for Cookstoves or http://www.cleancookstoves.org/
• WRI - Corporate partnerships
• FSG - Corporations and Society

Health

• Office of the U.S. Global AIDS Coordinator, Department of State
• PEPFAR and PEPFAR’s Public-Private Partnerships strategy
• The Global Health Initiative: The Next Phase of American Leadership in Health Around The World, Remarks by Secretary Hillary Rodham Clinton, August 2010
• U.S. Global Health Initiative
• Becton, Dickinson and Company
• Competing by Saving Lives: Shared Value in Global Health

*This is by no means comprehensive or intended to give special weight to any programs, organizations or initiatives over others. It is simply a list of readings suggested mostly by the panelists who participated at the roundtable.