Corporate Social Responsibility
Agriteam is committed to helping companies practice corporate social responsibility, whereby the company takes responsibility for the impact of its activities on the communities and environment in which it operates. Corporate social responsibility involves taking a broad, long-term perspective on company performance. It prompts not only better outcomes for and relationships with the community and environment affected by the company, but more sustainable business results.
At Agriteam, we use our breadth of international project management, community development, and technical expertise to develop and implement companies’ CSR programs around the world. This includes social development programming for major international corporations as well as specialized assistance for resource-based companies. We provide a wide range of services to ensure that:
- companies get tangible results for their CSR investments
- funds invested by companies deliver positive change in communities and the environment
Our commitment to CSR includes our own activities, and we ensure that we give back to the communities that we work in, both in Canada and around the world.
An example of our CSR work is the Tibet Tourism Training Program for the Rural Poor, conducted on behalf of Bombardier Inc. This project acknowledges that to date, few Tibetans have fully benefited from the thriving tourism sector ushered in by the Lhasa-Qinghai railway to Tibet. With this in mind, the project is working to reverse this trend, and see that Tibetans begin to meaningfully participate and benefit from the tourism activity all around them. Project activities include training Tibetans for management positions within the industry and developing the capacity for tourism management training within Tibet to provide long-term sustainability. The ultimate goal of the project is to provide Tibetans with greater control over their own development.