{"id":311515,"date":"2018-09-19T11:04:55","date_gmt":"2018-09-19T09:04:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nettsteder.regjeringen.no\/ansvarlignaringsliv2\/?p=311515"},"modified":"2018-09-19T11:04:56","modified_gmt":"2018-09-19T09:04:56","slug":"successful-seminar-for-nordic-baltic-national-contact-points","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nettsteder.regjeringen.no\/ansvarlignaringsliv2\/news\/successful-seminar-for-nordic-baltic-national-contact-points\/","title":{"rendered":"Successful seminar for Nordic-Baltic National Contact Points"},"content":{"rendered":"

Rules of Procedure for NCPs and promotional activities<\/h3>\n

The NCPs in the Nordic and Baltic region vary in their set-up and availability of resources and staff for promoting the OECD guidelines. Some also lack rules of procedure on how to handle complaints. Norway and Denmark\u2019s NCP gave introductions on how those NCPs that do not have rules of procedure in place could go about to ensure that NCPs lives up to the core criteria of visibility, accessibility, transparency and accountability.<\/p>\n

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NCPs hard at work with exchanging best practices<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Ellen Marie Friis Johansen from Denmark NCP and Frode Elgesem and Cathrine Halsaa from Norway NCP also gave introductions with\u00a0examples of the promotional activities, seminars, conferences and training on RBC and the OECD guidelines.<\/p>\n

Norway\u2019s NCP introduced our website www.responsiblebusiness.no\/en<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Norway\u2019s NCP strive to be accessible and transparent by posting names and pictures of NCP members and secretariat, the OECD guidelines and guidance documents, an online complaint form and information on procedures for handling complaints. We also post news articles on emerging issues and trends related to responsible business conduct, both in English and Norwegian.<\/p>\n

Mediation workshop<\/h3>\n
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Role play with the NCPs acting as mediator, complaining NGO and a company that has received a complaint<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The NCPs learned basic mediation techniques with role-play and mock-up case training. It was very useful and interesting to put yourself in the shoes of a company that has received a complaint, an NGO, or try to act as a mediator between parties that might not be interested in achieving an agreement, they could be emotional and interrupting each other. Under expertise guidance of Tina Monberg from the Mediation Center,\u00a0<\/a>the participants now have a better understanding of tools and the challenging task a mediation represents.<\/p>\n

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Seminar on RBC for business representatives<\/h3>\n

The Lithuanian NCP organised a successful seminar on Responsible Business Conduct in the Nordic and Baltic region, which was well attended by the business community and other stakeholders from Vilnius.\u00a0Kathryn Dovey from the OECD in Paris gave an introduction to the OECD Guidelines, the NCP system and the method of risk-based due diligence.<\/p>\n

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NCP members Linda Nielsen, Andrius Bambalas and Frode Elgesem gave excellent introductions on due diligence in the textile sector, the finance sector and in general for an Lithuanian audience<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

We would like to thank the following for sharing information and contributing to recruiting participants to the seminar:
\nThe Norwegian-Lithuanian chamber of commerce<\/a>
\nThe Norwegian and Danish embassies in Vilnius
\nNordic Council<\/a> of ministers office in Lithuania<\/p>\n

Full programme<\/a>\u00a0of the seminar and conference.<\/p>\n

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A particular thanks to Karolis Kitovas and Andrius Bambalas from Cathrine Halsaa for taking good care of all the practical details in organising the event<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Lithuania National Contact Point (NCP) hosted an excellent workshop on the initiative of Norway and Denmark\u2019s NCP in Vilnius, …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":323,"featured_media":311543,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[171],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-311515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"language":"en-GB","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nettsteder.regjeringen.no\/ansvarlignaringsliv2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311515","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nettsteder.regjeringen.no\/ansvarlignaringsliv2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nettsteder.regjeringen.no\/ansvarlignaringsliv2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nettsteder.regjeringen.no\/ansvarlignaringsliv2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/323"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nettsteder.regjeringen.no\/ansvarlignaringsliv2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=311515"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/nettsteder.regjeringen.no\/ansvarlignaringsliv2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311515\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":311571,"href":"https:\/\/nettsteder.regjeringen.no\/ansvarlignaringsliv2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311515\/revisions\/311571"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nettsteder.regjeringen.no\/ansvarlignaringsliv2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/311543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nettsteder.regjeringen.no\/ansvarlignaringsliv2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=311515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nettsteder.regjeringen.no\/ansvarlignaringsliv2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=311515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nettsteder.regjeringen.no\/ansvarlignaringsliv2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=311515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}