Intergrating CSR by company twinning methodology approach

This Handbook aims at providing a guidance to a working methodology called “Twinning Company Pathway - TCP” (or the “Twinning”), which was experienced in each of the three Countries involved in LOIEs (Bulgaria, Italy and Spain). The inspiring idea of the Twinning is that a fruitful collaboration between profit and non-profit companies may lead to the adoption of an integrated and systemic approach to CSR inside their organizations, if they both commit to exchanging ideas, experiences and practices on an equal basis. So the twinning pathway wants to be an experiment of “good contamination” between profit and nonprofit companies, in view of letting them acquire a stronger awareness on specific strengths and weaknesses in terms of their own effective SER and eventually activate or strengthen more responsible practices. The proposed methodology may be replied by any organizations, taking the precautions to adapt it to the specific context where they work. Through the set of instruments proposed (tools) users can see how their company policies, strategies, processes and activities are SR oriented. The Handbook is composed of two parts. The first one is devoted to methodology and experience claimed. It includes a brief summary of the Twinning projects implemented in each country with the aim of providing a tangible demonstration of the achieved results. The second part includes the tools that has been created and tested during the project life and that are described in the part One.