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UNEP Manual for Building Effective Stakeholder Engagement

UNEP Manual for Building Effective Stakeholder Engagement

Published 01-28-05

Submitted by AccountAbility

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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