CSR commitments, monitoring and reporting

2012 UNGC Strategy

We have ambitious plans to maintain our commitment and strengthen the impact we have on all of our stakeholders, whether they are employees, suppliers, clients or the wider community.  Our 2012 strategy as outlined below focuses on the areas where we believe we can make the greatest impact and achieve the best outcomes.

Target 1: Increase awareness of our internal and external stakeholders

Activities to achieve this: 

• Increase information and interactivity for UNGC monthly newsletter
• Increase information and interactivity with our associates
• Maintain exciting case studies online – energy, food and precautionary principle
• Maintain momentum on supply chain research – require UNGC related questionnaire answered from all new suppliers

Target 2: Improve communication for our personal commitments

Activity to achieve this:

• Encourage more measureable personal commitments

Target 3: Develop and maintain an active partnership with a local human rights NGO

Target 4: Increase staff awareness of human rights, labour rights, environmental sustainability and/or transparency and anti-corruption

Activities to achieve this:

• Conduct two lunch and learn sessions on UNGC topics of interest

Target 5: Define and follow a measureable set of KPIs in regards to environment, labour, transparency and communication

Goals to achieve this:

• Reduce paper usage by 25% compared to 2011 rates in relation to business activity
• Reduce CO₂ usage by an additional 10% in regards to business activity

Target 6: Striving to have zero direct negative impact on the environment, human rights, labour rights and transparency and anti-corruption

Ways of achieving this:

• Ongoing ISO activities
• Ongoing Investor in People activities
• Integrate UNGC Advanced Criteria for the CoP (linked with GRI)

Reporting

NEW!  Full Year UNGC Communication on Progress (CoP) 2011

Each year we report on our activities under the UNGC umbrella in a Communication on Progress. Just launched is our Full Year CoP 2011 which you can also find published on the UNGC website.

NOTABLE CoP!  UNGC Communication on Progress (CoP) 2007

Our 2007 CoP was awarded 'Notable CoP' status by the UN Global Compact Office, as recognition of our comprehensive approach to achieving high standards of corporate citizenship.

Article 13’s initiatives and actions

Each year we get involved in local initiatives, organise events and seek out advocacy opportunities which endorse the UNGC principles.  Keep updated on our activities, links to key information and relevant sites on our CSR and UNGC events pages.

Read about Article 13's past efforts in our CSR archive of Communications on Progress and Environment Reports.

Explore the links below to find out more…