“From Awareness to Action: How to Implement CSR in SMEs” Workshops in Uruguay, July 2014 and Panama City, Panama September 2014 in Partnership with OAS

Montevideo, Uruguay July 2014/Panama City, Panama, September 2014

Celina Pagani-Tousignant, President of Normisur International, implemented for the sixth time a two day workshop entitled: “From Awareness to Action: How to Implement CSR in SMEs” in Montevideo Uruguay for 15 Uruguayan SMEs.  Normisur International designed the workshop following the request from OAS to offer a strategic planning process for SMEs owners, as well as the key elements of the business case for CSR.

It is a big challenge to work with SMEs because first it is necessary to convince the owner of the value CSR brings to the business and then added and then to offer simple practical tools that are easy to implement. The workshop was very successful in Uruguay and it will be replicated for Panamanian SMEs at the end of September 2014.

After the two-day workshop in Panama, Celina will participate in a Program for Parliamentarians entitled: “Seminar on Corporate Social Responsibility Among the National Strategies”.

During this program, Normisur will facilitate a session on best CSR practices in Panama, to identify programs that have been developed successfully..

For more information on the work OAS is doing with SMEs, go to: http://www.oas.org/en/sedi/desd/sr/sme.asp

For more information on the work OAS is doing with Parliamentarians, go to:

http://www.oas.org/en/sedi/desd/sr/parliamentarians.asp