The regional hotel sector will have a tool for improving their environmental performance.
The guide will enable environmently friendly actions to be taken using a practical approach to daily hotel management.
The guide is entitled "Biodiversity: My hotel in action," and with it FUNDEMAS-FIDES, IUCN and the Agrisal Group, aim to meet the needs of the hotel industry by providing information that allows the incorporation of environmental management practices into hotels of various sizes and characteristics resulting in more sustainable operations.
The program's goal is to contribute to the productive development of communities in the north of the capital.
A total of nine communities in Colonia Escalon will benefit from the program called "Sustainable Communities: Entrepreneurship and Employment Generation."
To implement the program, USAID has provided $ 500 thousand, Grupo Agrisal $ 125 thousand, the same amount by Fundación Meza Ayuda, FUNDEMAS $ 100 thousand and the Fondo de Iniciativas de Educación $ 250.000.
The Annual Conference of the Central American Network for the Promotion of Corporate Social Responsibility will be called ConvertiRSE.
The conference will be held on November 17, 18, and 19 and will bring together the main representatives of the organizations that are in charge of promoting RSE in each of the countries: CentraRSE in Guatemala, Fundemas in El Salvador, FundahRSE in Honduras, UniRSE in Nicaragua, IntegraRSE in Panama, and the Business Association for Development (AED) in Costa Rica.
Central America has begun to broaden corporate participation in social responsibility by unifying its indicators.
The project consists of implementing a participative regional proces with the goal of encouraging policies of social responsibility in as great a number of companies as possible.
The indicators to be put in place will make companies more responsible to both its internal and external publics.
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