{"id":64923,"date":"2016-02-26T12:50:23","date_gmt":"2016-02-26T10:50:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/statement-concerning-undp-business-call-to-action-and-bidco-africa-ltd\/"},"modified":"2016-02-26T12:50:23","modified_gmt":"2016-02-26T10:50:23","slug":"statement-concerning-undp-business-call-to-action-and-bidco-africa-ltd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/statement-concerning-undp-business-call-to-action-and-bidco-africa-ltd\/","title":{"rendered":"Statement concerning UNDP, Business Call to Action and Bidco Africa Ltd."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span dir=\"ltr\"> NEW YORK, United States of America, February 25, 2016\/APO (African Press Organization)\/ &#8212; <\/span><\/p>\n<p>The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) has received a petition from the Bugala Farmers Association in Uganda related to UNDP\u2019s association with Bidco Africa Ltd., as a result of the company\u2019s membership with the Business Call to Action (BCtA).\u00a0The BCtA is an alliance of several donor and other institutions that challenges companies to use their core business to engage poor populations across their value chains, while contributing to the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals.\u00a0 Bidco Africa Ltd. became a member of the BCtA in September 2015. UNDP hosts the secretariat and is a member of the Donor Steering Committee of the BCtA.<\/p>\n<p \/>\n<p \/>\n<p>In addition to the petition, a complaint was submitted to\u00a0UNDP\u2019s Stakeholder Response Mechanism (SRM) and Social and Environmental Compliance Unit\u00a0(SECU) (http:\/\/www.UNDP.org\/secu-srm).\u00a0 This request is currently being reviewed for eligibility for either or both channels.\u00a0The outcome of these reviews will be posted on the\u00a0SRM Case Registry (http:\/\/www.APO.af\/ztoHfg)\u00a0and \u00a0SECU Case Registry (http:\/\/www.APO.af\/a3HHBf).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK, United States of America, February 25, 2016\/APO (African Press Organization)\/ &#8212; The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) has received a petition from the Bugala Farmers Association in Uganda related to UNDP\u2019s association with Bidco Africa Ltd., as a result of the company\u2019s membership with the Business Call to Action (BCtA).\u00a0The BCtA is an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4584],"tags":[428,4585,830],"class_list":{"0":"post-64923","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-africa-news-2","7":"tag-africa","8":"tag-apo","9":"tag-news","10":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64923","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64923"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64923\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}