Usha Nandini

Centre for Responsible Business

Centre for Responsible Business (CRB) is a centre of excellence, facilitating organisational behaviour change towards incorporating responsible business strategies, policies and practices that contribute to harmonious relationships in workplace, organisational productivity and growth. We support actors and stakeholders across the value chain - national and transnational brands and buyers, local manufacturers and suppliers (SMEs), national and international organisations, civil society organisations and governments - as they move towards a more sustainable and responsible future. CRB builds capacities for design, development and implementation of self-regulatory social and environmental standards as instruments of promoting responsible business practices. We focus on the essence of voluntary standards that support stakeholders across the value chains. We couple this with a focus on impact of our interventions on workers, working conditions, factories, farms and producers and their business and the environment. Deutsche Gesellschaft fur Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH, Social Accountability International (SAI) and Business Social Compliance Initiative (BSCI) partnered through a three-year (2010-2013) partnership project in India to incubate a centre of excellence for development of capacity building initiatives in the domain of business responsibility and voluntary standards. The Centre was registered as a not-for-profit entity, Centre for Responsible Business, in November 2011.