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Corporate Social
Responsibility
Caselet:
Roughly
20 pieces of clothing per person are manufactured each year. Growth of the
multi-trillion-dollar apparel industry has been fed by “fast fashion,” which
makes clothing cheaply and quickly with a low price-tag. Fast-changing trends
and low prices have allowed people to consume more. The average consumer is now
purchasing 60 percent more items of clothing compared to 2000 Cotton is the
most common natural fibre used to make clothing, accounting for about 33
percent of all fibres found in textiles. Cotton is also a very thirsty crop,
requiring 2,700 liters of water—what one person drinks in two-and-a-half
years—to make one cotton shirt. In areas already facing water stress, cotton
production can be particularly damaging. In Central Asia, for instance, the
Aral Sea has nearly disappeared because cotton farmers draw excessively from
the Amu Darya and Syr Darya rivers. Cotton farming is also responsible for 24
percent of insecticides and 11 percent of pesticides despite using about 3
percent of the world’s arable land.
The
carbon footprint of a garment largely depends on the material. While synthetic
fibres like polyester have less impact on water and land than grown materials
like cotton, they emit more greenhouse gasses per kilogram.* (Source, National
Geographic & WRI)
M/s
Fine Fabrics Ltd, a listed company, manufactures cotton fabric and its multiple
blended variants as per customer/client demands. Customers/clients include
fashion houses, designers and large clothing manufacturers across Asia &
Europe. You are the Head of CSR with the company.
Q1.
As Head of CSR you have been asked to come up with a detailed plan to sensitize
your employees on water as a critical resource and also initiate setting up of
an innovation driven cell/campaign for saving water. Design and develop a
strategic plan/roadmap involving sensitization of 100+ employees as well as
setting up of the Water innovation cell/campaign with SMART goals/outcomes for
M/s Fine Fabrics Ltd. Please be very specific and relevant to the company.
Q2.
Your company is committed to protect, respect and remedy Framework of UN
Principles on Business and Human Rights. The Head of manufacturing at M/s Fine
fabrics Ltd wants to partner with the supply chain in generating similar Human
Rights commitments across their businesses, which are mostly midsized. He wants
your guidance on how to convince these vendors to buy in into this voluntarily.
Develop a business case and a broad plan that your Head Manufacturing can use
to convince the vendor businesses to come on board and adopt UN Principles for
Businesses & Human Rights.
Q3A.
Carbon Offset is one mechanism used to reduce the carbon footprints of a
business. Suggest to your CEO at Fine Fabrics Ltd two concrete ways in which
Fine Fabrics can reduce its carbon footprints, develop a convincing business
benefit argument around each of the suggestion.
Q3B.
An NGO has approached the CEO of M/s Fine Fabrics Ltd requesting funding for a
project on cotton fabric based Traditional Crafts making workshop for girls
& women from weaker socio economic background. Your company falls under the
criteria of 2% spend on CSR as per Companies Act 2013. Your CEO thinks this
project can be funded but wants you to do the due diligence of the NGO. Prepare
a questionnaire with at least 5/five questions that you think your company
should ask and receive answers to before agreeing to fund the project/ partner
in the project.
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