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    Stakeholders increasingly require businesses to be accountable for their social and environmental performance - seeing this as intrinsically linked to overall business performance. The Principles-plus multi-audit etool enables businesses to benchmark and monitor the ethical, social and environmental performance of both their own entities and those of their suppliers. When used to its full capacity, the etool can also form the backbone of the reporting process - providing a systematic mechanism for capturing the data needed in the reporting process.

    Principles-plus multi-audit etool is a practical and comprehensive auditing method, bringing together a series of social and environmental standards, international best practice principles and instruments of corporate citizenship in a set of worksheets for companies to complete in order to assess their current ability to conform with best practice requirements.

    The worksheets are intended to be used to identify areas in which performance can be improved and to promote a climate of learning and continual improvement. They can also be used as a 'gap analysis' exercise, allowing companies to pinpoint areas of business risk and opportunities for advancement. A corrective action request form has also been included to help planning for improvements.

    Standards and guidelines addressed by this etool include:

    • United Nations Global Compact;
    • UN Human Rights Norms for Business;
    • Global Reporting Initiative (GRI);
    • SA8000 Social Accountability Standard;
    • ISO14001 Environmental Management System (EMS);
    • FTSE4Good Index Series inclusion criteria (2003);
    • Dow Jones Sustainability Index criteria (DJSI World).

    A broad range of issues are covered, under the major headings such as governance, financial performance, human rights, employees, stakeholder engagement, community investment and the environment.

    Principles-plus multi-audit etool is available in paper format and also as an electronic workbook with matching data-bank.

    Principles-plus multi-audit etool complements our Policy bank. Used in combination, the two resources will ensure that a company's policy and social and environmental auditing and reporting capabilities are consistent and build on each other.

    We offer linked services in the form of:

    • sector-specific service - whereby we can integrate additional sector-specific best practice standards into the existing Principles-plus multi-audit etool. Examples of what these may include are: the Equator Principles for the banking sector, or GRI sector supplements for the mining and automobile sectors.

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