United Nations Global Compact Network Philippines (UN GCNP)
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United Nations Global Compact Network Philippines (UN GCNP)

UN Global Compact The UNGC 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.e to adopt sustainable and socially responsible policies, and to report on their implementation.

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.

Our strategy is to inspire, guide and catalyze change by providing a principle-based framework, best practices, resources and networking events that have revolutionized how companies do business responsibly and keep commitments to society. By catalyzing action, partnerships and collaboration, we make transforming the world possible – and achievable – for organizations large and small, anywhere around the globe.
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Philippine Business Coalition for Women Empowerment (PBCWE)
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Philippine Business Coalition for Women Empowerment (PBCWE)

Philippine Business Coalition for Women Empowerment PBCWE is an organization composed the country's influential businesses that are large employers who will take the appropriate steps to improve gender equality in their own workplaces and to influence businesses, both in their supply chains and other large businesses, and to also become better employers of women.

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.

Empowering Women, Empowering Business
Pilipinas Kontra Gutom (PKG)
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Pilipinas Kontra Gutom (PKG)

Pilipinas Kontra Gutom Initiated by the Inter-Agency Task Force on Zero Hunger, PKG is a multi-sectoral coalition composed of government agencies, non-profit organizations, the academe, and the private sector. Its mission is to address the nation’s problem of involuntary hunger, including challenges on food production, food distribution and accessibility, and hidden hunger and malnutrition.

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.

820 million people around the world go to sleep hungry every night. Ending hunger by 2030 and ensuring access to safe, nutritious and sufficient food all year round is Goal #2 in the United Nations’ 17 Sustainable Development Goals. In the Philippines, an estimated 4 million Filipino families experienced involuntary hunger (or hunger due to lack of food to eat) at least once, based on the 2020 4th Quarter Social Weather Station survey. With the pandemic, the numbers continue to rise at an alarming rate.
Business for Sustainable Development (BSD)
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Business for Sustainable Development (BSD)

Business for Sustainable Development Previously called Philippine Business for the Environment, BSD is an environmental non-profit organization established in 1992 by private individuals whose mission is to help Philippine industry address its environmental concerns and responsibilities, and to promote sustainability.

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.

 

BSD is the trusted sustainability partner of the Philippines’ biggest companies. The organization promotes sustainability in business by supporting companies wherever they are in their sustainability journey through programs tailored to their needs.
Philippine Business for Social Progress (PBSP)
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Philippine Business for Social Progress (PBSP)

Philippine Business for Social Progress PBSP is the largest business-led NGO and operates at the nexus of corporate citizenship, sustainable development, and poverty reduction. Its brand of corporate citizenship taps into the core business competencies of companies and promotes inclusive business as a strategy.

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.

PBSP creates sustainable solutions to societal problems in its core program areas which are Health, Education, Environment, and Livelihood and Enterprise Development. It also provides off-the-shelf options for engagement of companies and their employees.
APEC Business Advisory Council (ABAC)
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APEC Business Advisory Council (ABAC)

APEC Business Advisory Council (ABAC)

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.

In 1995, Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) leaders established the APEC Business Advisory Council (ABAC), tasked to provide private sector perspective towards achieving free and open trade and investments in the region (Bogor Goals). Ambassador Roberto Romulo of the Philippines served as ABAC’s founding chairman in 1996. ABAC submits yearly to APEC leaders a report that outlines key recommendations focused on trade and investment in goods and services, removing barriers behind, at, and across the border. It engages with ministers, especially those responsible for trade, finance, SME, energy, food security, health, and women, and also participates in APEC committee meetings and in the APEC economies' initiatives.
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APEC Business Advisory Council (ABAC)

Every year, ABAC submits a Report to APEC Leaders which outlines key recommendations focused on trade and investment in goods and services – removing barriers behind the border, at the border and across the border.

ABAC writes to and engages with Ministers, especially those responsible for Trade, Finance, SME, Energy, Food Security, Health, and Women to address urgent challenges. The Council also participates in APEC committee meetings including sub-fora discussions, as well as initiatives of APEC economies.

APEC Business Advisory Council (ABAC)

APEC Leaders, in 1995, established the APEC Business Advisory Council (ABAC) tasked to provide private sector perspective towards achieving free and open trade and investments in the Asia Pacific region (Bogor goals).

The Council had its first meeting and dialogue with the Leaders in 1996, when the Philippines first chaired APEC. Ambassador Roberto Romulo of the Philippines served as ABAC’s founding chairman.

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Ramon Aboitiz Foundation, Inc. (RAFI)

RAFI, the foundation of the family of Don Ramon Aboitiz, was established in 1966. A non-stock and non-profit organization, it is committed to reshaping the future and elevating lives by getting involved in enabling non-government, private voluntary and people's organizations to democratize development initiatives. RAFI's main program strategies are community organizing, networking, and advocacy.

Ramon Aboitiz Foundation, Inc. (RAFI)
Ramon Aboitiz Foundation, Inc. RAFI, the foundation of the family of Don Ramon Aboitiz, was established in 1966. A non-stock and non-profit organization, it is committed to reshaping the future and elevating lives by getting involved in enabling non-government, private voluntary and people's organizations to democratize development initiatives. RAFI's main program strategies are community organizing, networking, and advocacy.

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.

RAFI's Bugsay Philosophy, which the term "Bugsay" is the Cebuano word for paddle… “A short oar that propels”. Every person in this world is given a Bugsay® – these are the internal resources that give us the power to direct our own destiny. You can power (paddle) yourself toward your chosen destiny, be sidetracked, remain motionless, or move around in circles without any focus or direction. It is a personal choice. One must have the right attitudes and have a clear view of one’s goals in life. One must be fully aware of this freedom to choose and to consciously direct one’s life.
UnionBank Memberships
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UnionBank Memberships

Guided by our value of integrity, we generate trust and sustain good relationships as we engage in meaningful value creation with our internal and external stakeholders – forging cooperation, partnerships, and common aspirations of a better future.

List of Organizations (as of FY 2022)
List of Organizations (as of FY 2022)

Chamber of Commerce

  • Bohol Chamber of Commerce and Industry Inc.
  • British Chamber of Commerce
  • Chamber of Thrift Banks

 

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Foundations/NGOs

  • League of Corporate Foundations
  • Philippine Business for Social Progress (PBSB)
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Industry Organization

  • The Financial Markets Association (ACI Philippines)
  • Management Association of the Philippines
  • Money Market Association
  • Bankers Institute of the Philippines Inc.
  • Philippine Financial & Inter Industry Pride
  • Bohol Bankers Association
  • Cebu Bankers Club
  • Credit Card Association of the Philippines
  • Fund Managers Association of the Philippines
  • Investment House Association of the Philippines
  • Bank Marketing Association
  • Philippine Marketing Association
  • People Management Association of the Philipines
  • Trust Officers Association of the Philippines
  • BAIPHIL/ Bankers Institute of the Philippines
  • Bank Security Management Association (BSMA)
  • Philippine Society for Industrial Security or PSIS
  • Institute of Internal Auditors
  • Information Systems Audit and Control Association (ISACA)
  • The Institute for Internal Controls (IIC)
  • Certified Forensic Accountants Philippines
  • Money Market Association of The Philippines
  • Association of Bank Compliance Officers in the Philippines
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ARISE Philippines
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ARISE Philippines

ARISE Philippines ARISE - Philippines is a Local Network of ARISE (the Private Sector Alliance for Disaster Resilient Societies).  

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.

In keeping with our mission of creating risk-resilient societies by energizing the private sector in collaboration with the public sector and other stakeholders to achieve the outcome and goal of the Sendai Framework in a transparent and inclusive way that delivers local and measurable impact, ARISE-Philippines aspires to live up to its commitments in all of our undertakings to raise awareness, share knowledge, influence, catalyze and implement force for disaster risk reduction policies and programs.
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Aboitiz Land Memberships
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Aboitiz Land Memberships

Guided by our value of integrity, we generate trust and sustain good relationships as we engage in meaningful value creation with our internal and external stakeholders – forging cooperation, partnerships, and common aspirations of a better future.

List of Organizations (as of FY 2022)
List of Organizations (as of FY 2022)

Chamber of Commerce

  • Chamber of Real Estate and Builders’ Associations (CREBA)
  • Cebu Chamber of Commerce and Industry
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Business Group

  • PropTech Consortium
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Industry Organization

  • Subdivision and Housing Developers Associations (SHDA)
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