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Responsible Business Guide: A Toolkit for Winning Companies

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<strong>Responsible</strong> <strong>Business</strong> <strong>Guide</strong>: A <strong>Toolkit</strong> <strong>for</strong> <strong>Winning</strong> <strong>Companies</strong><br />

Economic Social Environmental<br />

FINANCIAL VIABILITY<br />

and CAPITALIZATION<br />

Guidance on CSR<br />

indicators in Annual<br />

Reports 68<br />

Brand Equity 71<br />

Equator Principle 72<br />

Cleaner Production 74<br />

Equator Principle 75<br />

PRI 69<br />

KLD Domini 400<br />

Index 70<br />

IFC Per<strong>for</strong>mance<br />

Standards<br />

FTSE4GOOD<br />

100 Index 73<br />

IFC Per<strong>for</strong>mance<br />

Standards<br />

Dow Jones Sustainability<br />

index 76<br />

IFC Per<strong>for</strong>mance<br />

Standards<br />

Once considered specialized and expert-dependent, sustainability reporting is now becoming<br />

easier <strong>for</strong> smaller companies. Standardized reporting frameworks are now recognized as<br />

a global vehicle <strong>for</strong> compliance disclosure. They aim to provide one language <strong>for</strong> compliance<br />

reporting that can be easily understood by companies, banks, non-governmental<br />

organizations, governments, and anyone wishing to become familiar with a particular<br />

company’s conduct. These frameworks are considered widely cross-applicable, and there<strong>for</strong>e<br />

continue to gain significant following, including in Pakistan.<br />

[Engro‘s 2005 Report] Perhaps the most rapidly growing <strong>for</strong>mat comes from the<br />

... sets the standard in Global Reporting Initiative (GRI), now in its third generation,<br />

sustainability reporting in with industry-specific supplements that continue to be added<br />

Pakistan. It uses GRI guidelines to a widening portfolio of reporting tools. The GRI framework<br />

and includes in<strong>for</strong>mation about is considered more than a reporting tool. It provides a<br />

the stakeholder engagement systematic and standardized mechanism <strong>for</strong> self-analysis, risk<br />

process... a praise-worthy ef<strong>for</strong>t management, long-term planning, target-setting, relationshipbuilding,<br />

and stakeholder communicating within the<br />

in Sustainability Reporting.<br />

responsible business context. GRI reports also provide<br />

Judging Panel, ACCA-WWF recognition <strong>for</strong> companies that are part of the growing<br />

Environmental Reporting Awards population of socially responsible businesses. 77 The RBF<br />

introduced in this toolkit is compatible with GRI’s framework,<br />

as well as other reporting frameworks. And just like the GRI, it assumes a holistic perspective<br />

in stressing process, engagement, and documentation, rather than one-off actions taken<br />

in isolation.<br />

<strong>Responsible</strong> <strong>Business</strong> Initiative 35

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