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UNEP Manual for Building Effective Stakeholder Engagement
(CSRwire) AccountAbility, in co-operation with the United Nations Environment
Programme and Stakeholder Research Associates Canada, are working on a
stakeholder engagement manual, which will provide practical, user-friendly
guidance on building effective stakeholder engagement.
Further organisations that have already confirmed contributions or
participation include Gap, Camelot, Telefonica, the UK Department of Trade
and Industry and many others. The manual will be summarising key learning
and experiences from a diverse and international range of players, draw on
a review of best-practice in strategically aligned performance-based
stakeholder engagement, and distil AccountAbility's latest thinking on the
topic through their standards-related work. Specific focus will be given to
the role of stakeholder engagement in identifying new opportunities and
implementing solutions to unsolved problems. Ultimately, the manual aims
to clarify how and why successful stakeholder engagement can help
companies to secure leadership in an increasingly complex and ever
changing business environment, while at the same time bringing about
systemic change towards sustainable development.
The manual will be launched via a series of workshops in mid-2005.
Organisations of all kinds are invited to participate, support and
contribute with insights and case studies, as well as to get involved in
workshops and online-discussions. Interested organisations should contact
either Thomas Krick under thomas@accountability.org.uk,
or Katharine Partridge under kpartridge@stakeholderresearch.com.
About Accountability:
AccountAbility is an international, not-for-profit, professional institute
dedicated to the promotion of social, ethical and overall organisational
accountability, a precondition for achieving sustainable development.
AccountAbility is dedicated to promoting accountability for sustainable
development by:
Creating a credible assurance standard and underlying accountability
framework
Providing quality professional development and certification
Advocating an enabling public policy environment for organisational
accountability
Developing innovative 'ideas for action' through research and
practice
Is it a democratic, multi-stakeholder membership organisation with an
innovative and inclusive governance structure to ensure that it can operate
effectively and respond to the need and aspirations of its membership.
For more details about AccountAbility please visit: www.accountability.org.uk
About Stakeholder Research Associates Canada:
Stakeholder Research Associates (SRA) brings together a team of academics
and expert practitioners that specialize in mobilising informal and formal
channels of stakeholder opinion to senior business, government and civil
society leaders in support of governance, strategy formulation and
implementation. SRA is dedicated to improving trust in organizations and
cohesion in decision-making.
SRA operates in five core program areas:
Stakeholder consultation, including assessments of stakeholder
relations and independent surveys of stakeholder opinion
Strategic communications, including the development of two-way
channels for enhanced stakeholder dialogue, reporting and transparency
Governance and corporate social responsibility, including public
policy and the economic, social and environmental dimensions of
sustainability
Leadership development and organisational change, including the
challenge of translating commitments to ethics and corporate social and
environmental responsibility into practice
Strategic environmental management, including issues of environmental
sustainability and their impact on business
For more details about SRA please visit: www.stakeholderresearch.com
About UNEP-DTIE:
Headquartered in Nairobi, the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)
is the agency in the United Nations responsible for the environment. Its
Division of Technology, Industry and Economics (UNEP DTIE) in Paris works
with business and industry to advance sustainable consumption and
production and corporate responsibility.
UNEP DTIE has longstanding activities in the field of corporate
environmental and social responsibility (CESR), as called for at the 2002
World Summit on Sustainable Development. These include activities by UNEP
as core agency in the UN Global Compact, a series of international
voluntary initiatives such as the UNEP Finance Initiative that it has
co-launched since the 1990s, its role as co-founder of the Global
Reporting Initiative (GRI) process and its Engaging Stakeholders / Global
Reporters programme that it has been running with SustainAbility Ltd since
the early 1990s.
For more information please visit www.uneptie.org or contact Cornis van
der Lugt at cornis.lugt@unep.fr
or +33 (0)1 4437 1445
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