Bahrain Oil Minister opens International CSR Conference

Manama, Oct. 17 (BNA): The National Oil and Gas Authority (NOGA) opened the third edition of Bahrain International Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Conference today. Oil Minister Shaikh Mohammed bin Khalifa Al Khalifa praised the modern and global trends through various technical papers and other accompanying events that came to give a distinctive significance and an international indicator of the Kingdom wide-ranging charitable work, corporate tender responsibility and its founding principle of sharing in life. The minister said that CSR is a strategic concept that includes business management science, which is in the forefront of sponsoring charitable activities, programmes, conferences, exhibitions and sporting events, based on the existence of legislation, regulations and laws governing the work of CSR in various countries of the world. He explained that the oil companies that are affiliated under the umbrella of NOGA are paying attention to this regard, stressing his happiness to consider social responsibility when defining the strategic objectives of the companies and not be far from productivity and development of human resources in it, which confirms what the Alliance of Chief Executives has gone through. The minister said that it is important to encourage employees to participate in charitable endeavours and encourage family participation and to disseminate this strategic concept in their society, noting the need to create a social partnership with charitable civil society institutions. Shaikh Mohammed expressed his sincere appreciation to the Chairman of the Board of the Bahrain Social Responsibility Association and the council of social responsibilities in the Eastern region and members of the organising committee and to the supporting companies and to all participants, praising the organisers’ efforts.