Sreenivas Narayanan speaks about ASSIST at 14th International Business Forum in Germany

June 9, 2011 - PRLog -- Sreenivas Narayanan, Group Managing Director of Asia Society for Social Improvement and Sustainable Transformation (ASSIST) was chosen to speak at the 14th International Business Forum held June 5 to 7 in Berlin, Germany.

At the Forum, Sreenivas shared the successful experience of ASSIST in adopting business strategies to boost its conduct of development work.

Organized in cooperation with the World Bank Institute and Federation of German Industries (BDI) / Econsense, the Forum is a convergence of over 250 representatives from various industries, business associations, governments, national and international financial institutions and non-government organizations from all over the world.

Asia Society for Social Improvement and Sustainable Transformation (ASSIST) is an international non-government organization focused on capacity building. It seeks to promote sustainable practices to address social problems in the developing world, with focus on Asia and Africa.

ASSIST takes pride in its process-oriented approach to capacity building towards social improvement and sustainable transformation. Its goal is to empower its target groups to make them resilient to the social, economic and environmental challenges.

It is presently based in Makati City, Philippines, but also has operations in India and Vietnam and manages projects in over 10 countries. Through its Partner to Progress philosophy, it has successfully implemented such projects in collaboration with the European Union, United Nation Environment Program (UNEP), United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO), USAID, International Finance Corporation (IFC), GIZ, and DEG/ KFW amongst other organizations.#

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Asia Society for Social Improvement and Sustainable Transformation (ASSIST) is an international NGO focused on capacity building. It seeks to promote sustainable practices to address social problems in the developing world, with focus on Asia and Africa.