African Union a. Philanthropy – These projects can be broken down into projects that are „feel good‟ projects that have very little benefit for society in the long-term or for the organization but makes the organizations feel good e.g. sponsoring an arts project, or local sporting event that does not bring much publicity to the company and projects that give a large benefit to society in the long run but not much benefit to the organization e.g. funding a hospital, assisting a with country disaster recovery etc. b. Propaganda – These kinds of projects give the organization a lot of publicity and are usually part of their marketing campaign but the benefit to society is short lived e.g. sponsoring a major football tournament c. Partnering or networking – these types of projects bring benefit to both the organization and society in the long-term e.g. an accountancy firm partnering with a university to produce more accountancy graduates, or a company partnering with either a health authority or NGO to provide services and products to reduce the impact of a particular disease such as HIV/AIDS, organizations partnering for environmental reasons. QUESTION 1: To what extent do organizations in the private, public, informal and not-for-profit sectors act as good citizens? INDICATORS (i) (ii) Give an overall description of the extent to which organizations in all three sectors are driving and or contributing to national development objectives and priorities, such as but not limited to, gender equality, poverty alleviation, commitment to job creation, skills development, HIV/AIDS. Comment on the prevalence of multi-sector partnerships in the areas mentioned in (i) above. (iii) Prepare a schedule of specific examples of activities that organizations in your country are carrying out that fall into each of the corporate responsibility categories stating whether the organizations are in the private, public or not for profit sectors. (iv) Describe how organizations are informing and developing public policy in the areas mentioned in (i) above and the role that multi-sector partnerships are playing in this endeavour. (v) Comment on the relevance of the corporate responsibility activities carried out by organizations in all three sectors to community needs. (vi) Outline any public concern arising from the activities of organizations in all three sectors, including the number and frequency of any community protests and any organizational and government response to these protests. (vii) Describe how organisations are using the Global Reporting Initiative Guidelines and Framework to report on their corporate responsibility activities. 66