How Businesses Can Assess the Impacts of Their Charitable Activities on the Rights of Children and Youth
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Materials and Methods
3. Results
3.1. Limitations of CSR
3.1.1. Lack of Accountability
3.1.2. CSR Cannot Redress Harmful Business Impacts
3.1.3. Lack of Consideration of Children’s Rights
3.2. Limitations of Human Rights
3.2.1. Overemphasis of the Vulnerability of Young People
There is historicity to the claim that rights for excluded groups evolve from paternalistic notions of the need to protect the weak and ignorant to recognition of capacity and autonomy, for this has been the experience of women and people of colour. Children however, have been unable to redefine themselves as competent beings; thus, powerful elites decide which, if any, of the claims made by children they will recognize [59].
3.2.2. Limited Understanding of Children’s Rights
4. Discussion
4.1. Assessing Business Impacts on Children
Engaging Young People as Stakeholders
The key part of doing any of this due diligence is to find out what the impact is on those who would not necessarily be able to speak out or influence business action under traditional models, and so vulnerable groups are first and foremost in that they are the voiceless stakeholders [43].
4.2. Facilitating Innovative Approaches to Charitable Activities
The real difference between “investing” in a nonprofit or in a for-profit is that when we invest in a company, we only look for results at the company level. In the nonprofit sector, we are often looking at how the nonprofit can deliver programs that will bring about sustainable change in the community or even the world [4].
Improving Children’s Rights Awareness through Charitable Activities
5. Conclusions
Author Contributions
Funding
Institutional Review Board Statement
Informed Consent Statement
Data Availability Statement
Acknowledgments
Conflicts of Interest
Appendix A
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- Who is responsible for charitable activities in the business and for guiding the charitable framework and its goals? What supports exist within the business to facilitate charitable processes and results?
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- How is the charitable infrastructure informed by and connected to the mission and purpose of the business?
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- Is there a formal commitment to children’s rights within this charitable activity?
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- Do targeted groups have influence within the decision-making structure?
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- Why do these commitments to children’s rights within charitable activities exist within the company and how are they supported in practice? Who is involved and how much time do they dedicate? Is a child-rights-based approach foundational within these processes? What processes exist within the business to identify gaps in children’s rights expertise and commitment?
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- How is children’s rights expertise developed internally?
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- What is the process to identify and work with charitable organisations and young people connected with them?
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- What are creative and practical ways in which children and young people can be included as active and meaningful contributors to this process?
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- How can diverse populations of young people be engaged to ensure a non-discriminatory approach? (This can include age, gender, class, immigration status, race, social or ethnic background, language, region, rural or urban residence, etc.)
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- Is external children’s rights expertise engaged when necessary?
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- How have children’s rights guided the business’s charitable objectives and activities in the results?
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- What happens with the results of the process? Are there processes in place to ensure that feedback is distributed to the appropriate people, organisations, and places?
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- What are the opportunities for the target recipients of these activities to identify issues of concern to them about business charitable activities? How can this facilitate a relational and collaborative process between businesses and the communities which they are engaged with?
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- How and to whom are the results being shared/made public? It is important to identify commitments to children’s rights, share knowledge, advance accountability to children and their families, and foster a global dialogue on children’s rights.
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