Events in SEAL Program

GTZ & InWEnt - Teaming up for social standards

In order to be able to contribute still more efficiently and effectively to the promotion of Corporate Social Responsibility, InWEnt and the GTZ have teamed up for the expansion of training modules in the area of social standards for small and middle-sized businesses. Accordingly, a memorandum of understanding was introduced in the framework of a conference with Lydia Jebauer-Nirschl, Project Director in the department 4.04 – Business Development and Infrastructure, and Juliana Hinterberger, Program Manager of the GTZ.
GTZ's Profitable Social Management training course is intended to raise awareness among small and medium-sized enterprises in developing countries for the benefits of internationally recognised social standards, and to sensitise them to the link between economic success, internal organisation and social standards.

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Regional InWEnt Forum on Social Standards in Southeast Asia

Manila - From October 25 – 26, 2005, approximately 50 participants gathered at the Pan Pacific Hotel in Manila for the “SEAL Forum on International Best Practices on Corporate Social Responsibility and Social Management Systems and its effects on Small and Medium Enterprises“.
Aside from representatives of the German embassies, the ILO, the Philippine Ministry of Labor, as well as various companies and trade associations, numerous participants from Indonesia, Vietnam and the Philippines, who have considerably contributed to the success of the program „SEAL - Social Standards in South East Asia and Practical Learning“ in the past, came together under the motto “Pursuing Economic Development, Empowering the Workforce”.

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SEAL launches training of trainers in Jakarta

Jakarta - As part of the SEAL Program implementation, a trainer’s training seminar was conducted last 30 – 31 May 2005 at the PPM Management Institute in Jakarta, Indonesia under the auspices of InWEnt GmbH and through partnership of ECC International with PPM Manajamen, a learning institution equivalent to Asian Institute of Management here in the Philippines.

Mr. Ronaldo Limbago, Chief of the Training Division of Philippine Trade Training Center, was tapped to conduct the training. Mr. Francis Theodore B. Initorio, ECCI Special Project Manager, provided information about the SEAL Program. Forty participants (40) attended the seminar – representing industry associations, SMEs, academe and government sector.

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SEAL Visits Queen City Of the South

Cebu City – ECC International, under the auspices of InWEnt GmbH – a German Non-Governmental Organization fully supported by the German Government, recently launched a forum on Corporate Social Responsibility and Social Accountability in line with the implementation of the Social Standards Exchange of Experience in Southeast Asia and Practical Learning (SEAL) Program last 31 March 2005 at the Montebello Hotel Villa Hotel, Cebu City, Philippines.

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SEAL Program featured in ECC International Fora

Philippines, 2005 - The SEAL program was recently included in the ECC International's two HR Fora in Makati City and Alabang, Muntinlupa City last April 20 and 22 respectively. Attended by several prominent companies as well as numerous small to medium enterprises (SMEs), the fora zeroed in on the significance of training management systems.

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Multimedia Kit & Book Launch

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SEAL Training

On its third year of implementation, the SEAL Program has reached several small to medium scale enterprises in the Philippine, Malaysia and Indonesia.

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Hands-on Mentoring

The SEAL Program provides for hands-on mentoring whereby ECC International consultants will constantly chart a grantee’s progress until it has achieved alignment to SMS Standards.

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