Nigeria will finally commence the adoption process of the international standard on Social Responsibility, ISO 26000. After the successful completion of the first phase where corporate organisations were invited to express interest as technical partners, the International Organisation for Standardization (ISO) has through her national member body; the Standards Organisation of Nigeria (SON) announced the first technical meeting of the adoption process.
In partnership with ThistlePraxis Consulting, SON made this announcement in a statement signed by the Director General of Standards Organisation of Nigeria, Dr. Joseph Odumodu, MFR. The flag-off ceremony and first technical meeting for ISO 26000: NAP is scheduled to take place on Tuesday, July 31 and Wednesday, August 1, 2012 at the Transcorp Hilton, Abuja.
The two-day workshop will kick start the adoption process and will be facilitated by experts as well as Martin Neureiter, CEO, The CSR Company, Austria as Lead Expert. Participants will include corporate organisations who expressed interest in participating in the exercise as Technical Partners. As technical partners, organisations will benefit from global recognition as industry leaders and pioneer institutions in promoting Social Responsibility standards in Nigeria. SON and TPC have also promised special recognition and further technical support to participating organisations after the successful completion of this exercise.
ISO 26000 is an International Standard (by the International Organisation for Standardisation (ISO) elaborated to guide organisations on Social Responsibility. It is a consensus guidance document that provides support or a reference for all kinds of organisations in both private and public sectors both in developed and developing countries, as well as those who may be referred to as ‘being in transition’.
In July 2010, at the 9th Plenary meeting of the ISO Working Group on Social Responsibility (ISO/WG/SR) held in Copenhagen, 450 participating experts and 210 observers from 99 ISO member countries which included Nigeria and 42 liaison organisations deliberated and ratified the Final draft standard. Six main stakeholder groups were represented: industry; government; labour; consumers: nongovernmental organizations; service, support, research and others, as well as a geographical and gender-based balance of participants.
This exercise is only open to Technical Partners but will allow for select agencies, ministries and government parastatals to participate as Process observers in order to advocate for provisions of the guide for their respective industries or sectors.
When the adoption process is completed, Nigeria will join many other African countries such as Cameroon, Cote d’Ivoire, Egypt, Kenya, Mauritius, Morocco, South Africa, Senegal, Malawi, Uganda, Zimbabwe and Ghana who have adopted the standard.
In order to drum up support and achieve the New Media Strategy required to drive the process, a blog: http://iso26000-nigeria.blogspot.com/ has been created to properly communicate the process for local and foreign observers. Interested individuals are encouraged to visit for comments, suggestions and input, accordingly.
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