Responsible Business Guide: A Toolkit for Winning Companies
Responsible Business Guide: A Toolkit for Winning Companies
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