Under the guidance of His Excellency, President Abdelfattah Al Sisi, to raise awareness of the importance of achieving sustainable development and effective partnerships, thus achieving sustainable growth, and based on CSR Egypt’s adoption of the 17th SDG, the company to organize the 10th Egypt CSR Forum, entitled “We cooperate to build interconnected, developed, smart and sustainable future” on 6 April 2020 in Intercontinental Citystars Cairo Hotel, with the participation of more than 1000 key businessmen, government representatives, in addition to CSR and sustainable development experts.
This year the forum aims to create an interactive environment for all stakeholders to facilitate strategic level discussions, in order to unify visions, make partnerships and providing solutions to the most important issues and topics that will support achieving Egypt Vision 2030. This will be achieved through a number of panel discussions and workshops and bilateral meetings between the different stakeholders.
The forum will also discuss a number of topics to make a social impact in the fields of education, health, SMEs and entrepreneurship, in addition to highlighting the mechanisms of achieving sustainable growth for all sectors and means of integrating informal economy into the formal economy, as well as shedding light on the importance of business enterprises’ participation in supporting the government plan to establish a social protection network for the Egyptian citizen.
It will also address the impact of financial inclusion, digital transformation, development of sustainable cities, sustainable transport and adoption of green economy policies on achieving the desired sustainable development.
And for the first time, the forum will host specialized workshops to discuss the concepts of corporate citizenship, role of media in raising the degree of citizen awareness of the country’s efforts to achieve sustainable development and mechanisms to measure the development impact and identify the latest concepts such as LEED, SASB, CDP, Employee Engagement, SR.
Furthermore, it will highlight the best practices in the field of CSR, sustainable development and the knowledge revolution, especially artificial intelligence and its applications in various fields such as agriculture, tourism, transport and sustainable financing.