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- Citizen spokesperson in Cartagena, Manuel Padín, recalled that since October 2015, "the City Council is ignoring a plenary agreement promoted by our Group to implement CSR in local administration and to design the Sustainability Report"

On Friday, September 29, the Corporate Social Responsibility Chair (CSR) of the University of Murcia published the results of the first phase of the analysis of the level of CSR in the municipalities of Murcia, Lorca, Molina de Segura and Cartagena.

The study, for which 134 national and international indicators were used, reveals that although Cartagena gets a good rating in the financial information section (8,9), this is not the case with environmental policies and sustainable tourism actions where Ayuntamiento cartagenero suspends with a 4.7.

In addition, the study criticizes that the information through the municipal web is very disseminated, that its data are not well elaborated, or that it has to "dive" too much to access certain relevant information.

The researchers also lamented the fact that Cartagena does not yet have a Corporate Social Responsibility Report.

According to the Citizen spokesman in Cartagena, Manuel Padín, "our City Council has no possible justification for not having that memory, because since October 2015 has a plenary mandate promoted by our Group that has been systematically ignored for two lengths years".

Manuel Padín recalled that his proposal was supported by the unanimity of the Plenary and in it the City was ordered "to implement Corporate Social Responsibility in the City of Cartagena and to prepare its Sustainability Report."

The spokesman of Cs Cartagena regrets the "absolute disdain" that shows the City Council to the agreements adopted by the Plenary, "two years without having bothered to fulfill their obligation are too many to think that it is only incompetence."

In his opinion, "a government that does not comply with the resolutions approved by the councilors in the plenary sessions" begins to delegitimize as such.

The spokesman of Cs has informed that "if the Commission of Execution of the agreements of the Plenary is not summoned in the short term, we will have to request explanations at the next plenary session".

Corporate Social Responsibility

Corporate Social Responsibility has so far been applied in the private business sector.

However, although the concept of CSR was initially conceived for private companies, the evident influence of the public sector on the economic, social and environmental spheres has led to consider also the implementation of Corporate Responsibility in the Public Administration itself.

For this reason, a specific concept of CSR has recently been defined for Local Authorities: Local Public Corporate Responsibility (RCPL), which implies the assumption of a culture of governance that meets the expectations of the economic, social and environmental aspects of the municipality with respect to the commitments of the Council in matters of sustainable development, social values ​​or information transparency.

For all this, it is necessary to have a tool that allows to know the level of social responsibility in the municipalities.

The implementation process of Corporate Social Responsibility in an institution is concretized in the elaboration of the "Sustainability Report".

The spokesman for the orange formation explained that "this document has missed the University of Murcia, and that should have the City Council if it does not behave as a government with absolute majority, it is a report that specifies the influence of the actions of the City Council in the economic, social and environmental areas of the municipality, and makes it possible to monitor these policies, comparing them over time to observe their evolution.

The report also analyzes the aspects of the actions that are most valued by the citizens according to their social impact, and assesses the fulfillment of the objectives.

According to this analysis of the University of Murcia, "the role of the public sector can not be restricted to the fulfillment of the legality and, where appropriate, the requirement of economic and patrimonial responsibilities for their actions. in the face of certain "corrupt" and even "immoral" behaviors and behaviors of public organizations, their employees, officials and policy makers.

There are 8,166 municipalities in Spain.

Of them, only half a hundred have developed their "Sustainability Report".

In our Region, no municipality has implemented the CSR, "therefore, as we defended in 2015 and defended in 2017, Cartagena has the opportunity to lead Corporate Social Responsibility in the local area being the first to implement it in the Region of Murcia," Manuel Padín concluded.

Source: Ciudadanos Cartagena