The Global Compact Network Philippines (GCNP) is a non-binding United Nations pact to encourage businesses and firms worldwide to adopt sustainable and socially responsible policies, and to report on their implementation. It aims to drive business awareness and action to achieve the SDGs and sustainable communities in the country.

Aboitiz Equity Ventures is a participant of the UNGC, a corporate sustainability initiative that aims to guide how organizations approach human rights, labor, environment and anti-corruption issues. Aboitiz has pledged to align its strategies, culture and operations with the ten universal principles of the Compact. The UNGC hopes to bring the full weight of the private sector in achieving the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by 2030.

Ana Margarita “Ginggay” Hontiveros, Aboitiz Equity Ventures, Inc. Vice President for Reputation Management, was elected on March 2, 2021 to the Board of Trustees of Global Compact Network Philippines (GCNP), the UNGC’s local entity.  She brings to the GCNP Board her expertise and experience in sustainability. She currently oversees the Aboitiz Group’s brand, creatives, corporate communications, and sustainability programs.

PBCWE was launched in March 2017 through a partnership between the Philippine Women’s Economic Network, Inc. (PhilWEN) and Investing in Women (IW), an Australian Government initiative. IW aims for women’s economic empowerment in four Southeast Asian economies: Indonesia, Philippines, Myanmar, and Vietnam. PBCWE is under the IW’s Workplace Gender Equality (WGE) pathway which supports business coalitions that work with influential businesses on shifting workplace cultures, practices, and policy barriers to achieve WGE.

AEV is the first industrial conglomerate to join the organization to foster alliance to address gender equality and share best practices to improve workplace culture, processes and policies.

Pilipinas Kontra Gutom is a multi-sectoral movement founded to help eradicate hunger and malnutrition in the Philippines by 2030. It is the collective effort of the government, NGOs, the academe and the private sector to address the root of the nation’s concerns on hunger – striving to improve food production and distribution, to repurpose food surplus, to curb malnutrition and to reduce hunger incidences caused by crises.

Through these efforts, Pilipinas Kontra Gutom is committed to get every Filipino household involved in making sure that no one experiences involuntary hunger ever again.

Business for Sustainable Development (BSD) , formerly Philippine Business for the Environment (PBE), is a non-stock, nonprofit organization established in January 1992 to assist companies in exploring the vital connections between business and the environment. In the past 25 years, led sustainability management initiatives in the Philippines that influenced both private and public sectors to contribute to the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). It also engages with individual corporations through advisory services in sustainability reporting, strategy and roadmap, impact assessment, and project implementation.

As the Global Network Partner of the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) in the Philippines, we also play an integral role in creating awareness, promoting action, and enabling an environment where businesses are committed to scale up solutions for a sustainable world. We are the Philippines’ Certified Training Partner of the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI), a globally-recognized standards organization that pioneered sustainability reporting. We collect data, process information, and identify sustainability reporting trends in the Philippines to be added to GRI’s Sustainability Disclosure Database.

Established in 1970, PBSP remains a consultant and partner of choice of companies and donors. PBSP scales up impact by adopting the Collective Impact strategy to solve large, complex, systemic problems. PBSP organizes Platforms for Collective Engagements (PLACEs) to ensure alignment and sustainability of initiatives by multiple stakeholders.

Responding to the changing landscape of CSR, PBSP’s brand of corporate citizenship taps into the core business competencies of companies and promotes inclusive business as a strategy. PBSP also continues to strategically engage companies through social investment, responsible business practices, and philanthropy. It creates sustainable solutions to societal problems in its core program areas of health, education, environment, and livelihood and enterprise development.

With a proven track record, PBSP provides end-to-end services in development consulting which include project and grants management, events and backroom management.

AEV and PBSP forged partnerships for the A-Park Program, the Aboitiz Group’s carbon management program which planted 11.7 Million trees to date.

ABAC’s focus for 2021 is on people, place, and prosperity — three elements are essential to creating ideal societies, according to New Zealand Prime Minister Rt. Hon. Jacinda Ardern.

‘People’ is ABAC’s north star 一 access for all to Covid vaccinations, essential goods and food supplies; how small businesses can operate on a level playing field; and how to empower women and indigenous populations to succeed. ‘Place’ is about safeguarding the planet while ‘prosperity’ will push for free and open markets within the region to keep supply chains functioning and trade flowing, as well as resumption of travel to revive the region’s economic growth.

The Ramon Aboitiz Foundation Inc. (RAFI) is the family foundation of the family line of Don Ramon Aboitiz. Established in 1966, RAFI continues to elevate lives of people in the Visayas and Mindanao.

Its mission is to be “Architects of Change”, by elevating the dignity of man who implement solutions that enable people to achieve higher levels of wellbeing.

RAFI’s role is to provide the architecture of participation, setting the stage for partnerships, coalitions and project management by working with local government and civil society in bringing about positive change. Its main program domains include Economic, focused on improving the economic well-being of communities; Social, creating opportunities for growth and improving a sense of identity and purpose; and Physical, building healthy, resilient and livable communities.

AEV, AFI and RAFI forged partnerships in various CSR Programs most significantly for reforestation and biodiversity programs in the country.

ARISE – Philippines is a Local Network of ARISE (the Private Sector Alliance for Disaster Resilient Societies).  ARISE is a United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR) – led network of private sector entities whose members voluntarily commit to support and implement the Sendai Framework, aligned with the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and its Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), Paris Climate Agreement, New Urban Agenda and Agenda for Humanity.

ARISE-Philippines draws its strength from the commitment of each member to help achieve the country’s disaster risk reduction goals. The organization aims to achieve its commitments, through the individual efforts of its members as well as the collective undertakings through collaborations.

To date, it has 146 member private sector organizations that share the vision of a resilient, prosperous future where fewer lives are lost to disasters, capital assets and investments are risk-informed, and infrastructure is resilient to a natural and man-made hazard.

Aboitiz joins the first batch of the Board of Directors in 2020, represented by Maribeth Marasigan, President and Chief Operating Officer of Aboitiz Foundation.