Summary: IFC, a member of the World Bank Group, and the Global Reporting Initiative today launched a practitioner’s guide to help organizations worldwide create opportunities for women, adopt best practices in sustainability reporting, and improve companies’ bottom lines.
Unveiled at the CSR Asia Summit 2009 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Embedding Gender in Sustainability Reporting demonstrates the value of creating business opportunities for women, provides guidance on improving gender management through sustainability reporting, and helps improve the quality and scope of gender reporting.
Source: October 27, 2009 IFC Press Release
More Information:
- A pdf of the report is at http://www.ifc.org/ifcext/sustainability.nsf/AttachmentsByTitle/web_GenderReporting_EmbeddingGender/$FILE/GRI-IFC_Full_Gender.pdf
- An executive summary of the report is at http://www.ifc.org/ifcext/sustainability.nsf/AttachmentsByTitle/web_GenderReporting_EmbeddingGender_ExecSummary/$FILE/GRI-IFC_EmbeddingGender_LR.pdf
- The full press release is at http://www.ifc.org/ifcext/media.nsf/content/SelectedPressRelease?OpenDocument&UNID=F388D968F640C8588525765C004AC101
Contact: Katia Theriault, IFC, (202) 458 9704, ktheriault@ifc.org or Katherine Miles, miles@globalreporting.org
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