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CSR/Sustainability Reporting and communication

Training: CSR/Sustainability Reporting and communication

Transparency and accountability are integral parts of corporate social responsibility. Over the last several decades, corporate social responsibility reporting has become a widely spread practice around the world. Stakeholders – investors, the public, customers, employees, international organizations, and Governments – are more often requesting companies to reports on their social and environmental activities. A growing number of responsible investors and sustainability indexes refer to these reports for company evaluation. Currently, the volume of global assets managed by responsible investing principle exceeds 30 trillion USD.

About three quarters of large companies in the Eastern Europe publish their reports, while this figure is greater than 80% in the Western Europe. In Georgia, this kind of reporting is a relatively new practice and is becoming a rapidly growing trend.

The training is intended for companies that are willing to start their corporate responsibility reporting or have already started it, but would like to bring their CSR reports in line with international standards, and, this way, raise their company reputation, gain competitive advantage both on the Georgian and international markets, and publicly report about the benefit they bring to the society and the country.

The training addresses the following issues:

  • What is CSR reporting and sustainability reporting; different types of reports – CSR report, sustainability report, integrated report
  • Global trends in the field of nonfinancial reporting
  • Why should the company report? (positive impact of reporting)
  • Notion of stakeholders, identification of key stakeholders and communicating with them
  • International reporting standards
  • Reporting process: identification of main topics to report on, selection of the reporting format, data collection and data processing
  • Measuring results and the impact – notion of indicators
  • How to make report trustworthy and reader-friendly
  • Communicating the report to the internal and external stakeholders.

The training is loaded with exercises, group assignments, discussions, and interactions.

The content and duration of the training is customized to the client’s specific requirements and needs.

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