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Planning and Financial Valuation Model for Sustainability Investments
A partnership comprised of International Finance Corporation, Rio Tinto Alcan and Deloitte with additional support from the Government of Norway and the Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency has successfully developed a pilot version of the Planning and Financial Valuation Tool for Sustainability Investments that quantifies the value of sustainability investments, allowing the user to plan according.
Social and Economic Impact: Measurement, Evaluation and Reporting
This upcoming report has already generated a lot of interest among sustainability, ethical sourcing and community engagement managers. Find out how your company can benefit from measuring more than just performance and outputs. Understand and communicate the true impact of your business.
Building Consensus: History and Lessons from the Mesa de Diálogo y Consenso CAO-Cajamarca, Peru
The Mesa de Diálogo y Consenso CAO-Cajamarca was convened to address and resolve conflicts between Yanacocha, the largest gold mine in Peru, and the surrounding communities affected by its operations. The Mesa sought consensus based solutions under a framework of good faith, cooperation, and tolerance.
Measuring Value: A Guide to Social Return on Investment (SROI)
Value-driven organisations are using new ways to understand, measure and foster awareness of their impacts. The benefits can then be seen in terms of the ‘return’ for individuals, communities, society or the environment. This is a powerful way of viewing impact. It enables those who invest in, and have a stake in, social change to thoughtfully weigh the resources they use. This guide sets the standard for a complete and rigorous SR OI process and report.
Participatory Water Monitoring: A Guide for Preventing and Managing Conflict
The CAO has prepared this guide to be used as a design tool for communities, civil society organizations, corporations, and governments at both the subnational and national level that want to implement participatory water monitoring programs. The document provides a framework that can be used to develop a detailed implementation plan that meets the unique characteristics of each situation.
A Guide to Social Impact Assessment in the Oil and Gas Industry
The guide outlines the use of Social Impact Assessments by the oil and gas industry. It provides managers of existing oil and gas operations or new projects with an understanding of how to make the best use of SIAs.
AA1000 Framework
The Framework provides guidance to users on how to establish a systematic stakeholder engagement process that generates the indicators, targets, and reporting systems needed to ensure to ensure greater transparency, effective responsiveness to stakeholders and improved overall organisational performance.
Assurance Standards Briefing. AA1000 Assurance Standard & ISAE3000
Globally, two standards have taken on particular importance in the area of sustainability assurance. The AA1000 Assurance Standard (AA1000AS), launched in March 2003 by AccountAbility; and the IAASB’s International Standard on Assurance Engagements (ISAE) 3000 , which all professional accounting networks must comply with from January 1st 2005.
GRI Mining and Metals Sector Supplement. Pilot Version 1.0
This Supplement to the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) 2002 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines identifies aspects of mining and metals companies’ operations that are significant to a discussion of sustainable development by companies in the sector, but which are not captured by the reporting elements and indicators in the 2002 Guidelines.
How to Build Monitoring & Evaluation Systems to Support Better Government
This book -- How to Build M&E Systems to Support Better Government -- draws on IEG's program of research and technical assistance in this area, focusing on the experience of governments in a wide range of countries and public sector environments. The book is recommended for government officials, donor staff and others who are working to help countries build their capacities to systematically measure their performance, and to use this information to achieve results on the ground.Sustainability Reporting Guidelines
The Global Reporting Initiative “G3” Guidelines for Sustainability Reporting were released in October 2006 following several year’s ofresearch, development, and consensus-seeking by multi-stakeholder technical working groups, each assigned to focus on different parts of the Guidelines ending with a periodof public participation and comment.
Lessons of Experience: The Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan (BTC) Pipeline Project
This document provides the insights of the The Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan (BTC) Pipeline Project. The planning, design and construction of the Baku-Tbilisi- Ceyhan (BTC) pipeline provides a good example of an IFC-financed project that faced a wide variety of complex and often difficult social and environmental challenges.
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Donor Committee for Enterprise Development (DCED)
Many agencies are working to build a vibrant private sector, and to partner with business for development goals. But donor coordination is only possible if agencies share a 'world view' on how to do this most effectively; the Donor Committee for Enterprise Development (DCED) exists to build that agreement.
Impact Alliance
The Impact Alliance is a global action network committed to strengthening the capacity of individuals and organizations to generate deep impact within the communities they serve.
World NGO Resource Page
In order for NGO's to connect on a worldwide basis www.nonprofitexpert.com has developed the following resource pages listed below. Please follow links for countries and donors.
Impact Alliance
The Impact Alliance is a global action network committed to strengthening the capacity of individuals and organizations to generate deep impact within the communities they serve. It is a dynamic space for partners and members to share, learn and collaborate to define and develop standards of excellence in the art and practice of capacity building.
Keystone
Keystone is a citizen organisation committed to enhancing the effectiveness of organisations working in the social change field. Keystone seeks to improve the effectiveness of organisations working in the human development field by developing new ways of planning, measuring and communicating social change that are practical and include the voices of their beneficiaries and other constituents.
IFC’s Knowledge Leadership Changing the Corporate Responsibility Game
IFC recently assembled over 200 representatives from the private sector to discuss ways that companies can maximize the positive impacts of their community investments and contribute to long-term economic growth in developing countries.
The Amsterdam Declaration on Transparency and Reporting
Global leaders from business, labor and civil society today declared their belief that the lack of transparency in the existing system for corporate reporting has failed its stakeholders. In issuing The Amsterdam Declaration on Transparency and Reporting, Board Members of the Global Reporting Initiative called on governments to introduce policies requiring companies to address publicly environmental, social and governance (ESG) factors.
Report Finds That Most Corporations Fail to Address Risks That Threaten Long-Term Profitability
Experts in Responsible Investment Solutions (EIRIS) report on responsible business practices finds insufficient ESG risk management and inadequate disclosure and advocates PRI involvement for responsible investors.
The changing face of community investment: Measuring community investment
As community investment becomes more strategic, companies want to know what impact their activities are having on society.
Getting on Board with Corporate Social Responsibility
SocialFunds.com, 25 August 2008 - Corporate boards can and should influence their companies' social and environmental performances finds a new report.
Evaluating Performance: Monitoring and Auditing
Following consultation with the Australian mining industry and other interest groups on the key issues affecting sustainable development, the “Leading Practice Sustainable Development” Program developed 14 handbooks. This handbook will address the ongoing impact of all stages of a resource project from initial planning through development and operation, to closure and rehabilitation. It includes requirements for an environmental impact assessment for a project, development and implementation of environmental management systems, performance, monitoring and auditing – all of which contribute to a company’s social licence to operate.Guidance Note on Designing Participatory Monitoring Programs
This guide highlight good practice in designing participatory monitoring programs as a form of socio-environmental management. The concepts and examples presented here are drawn from the many experiences and cases of the extractive industries. Best international practice has served as a guiding principle to organize the information and to incorporate the lessons learned from these experiences.
Social and Economic Impact: Measurement, Evaluation and Reporting
This upcoming report has already generated a lot of interest among sustainability, ethical sourcing and community engagement managers. Find out how your company can benefit from measuring more than just performance and outputs. Understand and communicate the true impact of your business.
Corporate Social Performance: From Output Measurement to Impact Measurement
Workshop on Community Investment in Francophone Africa
As part of the knowledge sharing component of IFC’s Strategic Community Investment Program in Africa, the proposed regional workshop is designed to share IFC’s new business model on strategic community investment and newly developed tools to measure return on sustainability investments.
IFC Sustainability Exchange: Community Investment Tools to Drive Business Performance
Beyond the Bottom Line: Measuring Results of Pro-Poor Business Investments
As more companies embed sustainable development into their core business strategies, it has become increasingly important to measure progress towards building inclusive growth. By measuring and assessing the impact of these business investments, we can better understand which strategies work best, which models need improvement and how to change the way we do business to enhance development impact.
International Seminar on Social Responsibility in Mining, Santiago Chile, October 2011: Call for Papers
International Seminar on Social Responsibility in Mining
Interested authors are invited to submit a 300-word abstract in English to srm@srmining.com. Abstracts must clearly state the objectives and describe a summary of the obtained results. Abstracts are to include a title and full details of the corresponding author. Abstracts are due by 21 January 2011.
