Businessscafe - Sri Lanka's female labour force participation has always been in the lower figures.
Businesscafe - The Women Directors Forum (WDF) of Sri Lanka Institute of Directors (SLID), together with the International Finance Corporation (IFC) and Women Corporate Directors Foundation (WCD), recently organized a webinar on “Women on Boards : The Power of Networking” commemorating International Women’s Day.
Businesscafe - Ajith Nivard Cabraal, State Minister of Money & Capital Markets and State Enterprise Reforms and Members of the CEO Forum of India held a cordial discussion at the Ministry of Finance (17.03.2021).
Businesscafe - World Water Day is celebrated on March 22 and the theme this year is ‘Valuing Water', which focuses on the environmental, social and cultural value people place on water, aligned to Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) No. 6; ensuring water and sanitation for all is perfectly embodied by the water replenishment projects undertaken by Coca-Cola.
Businesscafe - Hemas Outreach Foundation, together with AYATI - Sri Lanka’s first national centre for children with disabilities - launched ‘Eka Se Salakamu’ (Treat All Alike) to coincide with the World Down Syndrome Day celebrated on the 21st of March.
Businesscafe - With the aim of implementing its highly successful skills development programme for Technical Officers (TOs) across the nation, INSEE Cement Sri Lanka signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the North Central Provincial Council recently.
Businesscafe - World’s pioneering private-label supplier of hand protection, Midas Safety donated 1 million medical grade gloves worth Rs. 16 million to the Ministry of Health in Sri Lanka to aid the country’s relentless fight against the COVID-19 global pandemic.
Businesscafe - Continuing with their focus of uplifting the country’s educational landscape by way of encouraging more readers and bringing books closer to the country’s youth, SLT-MOBITEL, the National ICT and Telecommunications Services Provider in partnership with Manusath Derana completed the second phase of an ongoing CSR project which is aimed at transforming decommissioned SLTB Busses into fully fledged libraries.
Businesscafe - Sri Lanka’s only internationally accredited Sustainability Validation, Verification and Certification body, The Sustainable Future Group (SFG), marked another international milestone recently when it received accreditation from the International Accreditation Forum (IAF) for the conduct of ISO 14067:2018 Product Carbon Footprint Verification.
Businesscafe - As part of its ongoing efforts to empower and uplift the livelihood of its farmer co-operative societies, Dipped Products PLC (DPL) distributed school bags to the children of 1,500 smallholder rubber farmers for the 10th consecutive year, under its flagship Firstlight CSR project.
Businesscafe - In honor of International Women’s Day, WEConnect International kicks off its #Rise2theChallenge campaign that urges its 110+ multinational buying organizations to publicly commit to a specific spend target or relevant project to advance opportunities for women-owned businesses around the world.
