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Embedding Gender in Sustainability Reporting: A Practitioner Guide

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  • Outreach Initiatives and Partnerships
  • Reporting
  • Supply Chain

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  • International Finance Corporation, Global Reporting Initiative

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  • GGuide

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  • Implementation

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  • Corporate Reporting, Diversity & Inclusion, Human Resources

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Embedding Gender in Sustainability Reporting: A Practitioner Guide

International Finance Corporation, Global Reporting Initiative
This guide seeks to help enterprises tap into emerging best practices in sustainability reporting, achieve bottom-line benefits, and create new opportunities for women in the private sector by better understanding and managing gender perspectives in their businesses. The guide comprises gender equality discussions around organizational governance and values, workplace, supply chain, community, consumers, and investment.

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8 Ways to Measure Diversity That Have Nothing to Do With Hiring

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  • Career Development
  • Measuring and Evaluating
  • Organizational Culture
  • Supply Chain

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  • Fortune

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  • AArticle

TARGET AREA
  • Strategy

TARGET UNIT
  • Diversity & Inclusion, Human Resources, Senior Leadership

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8 Ways to Measure Diversity That Have Nothing to Do With Hiring

Fortune
This article illustrates eight unique ways to measure the effectiveness of a business’s diversity and inclusion programs, beyond hiring and recruitment data.

The eight components to consider while measuring diversity are:

  1. Title and level within the company
  2. Rate and time of promotions
  3. Access to special projects
  4. Exposure to upper management
  5. Evaluate partnerships
  6. Check support groups
  7. Consider age
  8. Supplier diversity program

 

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Unlocking Opportunities for Women and Business – Women and Community Engagement

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  • Outreach Initiatives and Partnerships
  • Supply Chain

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  • IFC

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  • RReport

TARGET AREA
  • Development

TARGET UNIT
  • Community Outreach, Corporate Social Responsibility

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Unlocking Opportunities for Women and Business – Women and Community Engagement

IFC
This resource is a toolkit of actions and strategies for oil, gas, and mining (OGM) companiesto reach their gender goals. Even though the toolkit is focused on the OGM sector, the actions and recommendations provided in the resource can be easily translated to other industries.

This toolkit provides steps to ensure that companies incorporate gender equality as they develop community engagement strategies. It provides recommendations in three sections:

  1. Assess and Prepare: This section offers tools to help community engagement teams review the company’s community engagement activities to assess the extent to which gender is an explicit theme.
  2. Address: This section offers tools to help integrate gender sensitivity into the initiatives based on the assessment information collected.
  3. Monitor and Sustain: This section offers guidance on setting benchmarks, measuring impact, and improving practices to address potential concerns and avoid problems altogether.

Some examples of initiatives and programs to support women and girls:

  • Gender-based violence education and awareness
  • Capacity building and financial support for local and regional women’s organizations

Some examples of initiatives to encourage women’s economic empowerment:

  • Promotion of women’s entrepreneurship (e.g. start-up grants, microfinance, access to local markets or supply chains)
  • Scholarships and apprenticeship programs for women and girls (general in nature or specific to the sector of the company)

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WEConnect Academy

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  • Supply Chain

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  • WEConnect International

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  • OOnline Learning

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  • Standards and Certifications

TARGET UNIT
  • Procurement

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WEConnect Academy

WEConnect International
The WEConnect Academy is an online suite of education and training programs to provide women business owners with a multitude ofresources and information. The programs help women business owners to achieve their growth objectives, learn from experts and fellow WBEs, and gain access to a diverse support network. WEConnect Academy also has invite-only webinars that range from topics of work-life balance, team productivity, and leadership development.

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Global Supplier Diversity & Inclusion – Reaching the Gold Standard

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  • Supply Chain

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  • WEConnect International

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  • GGuide

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  • Standards and Certifications

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  • Procurement

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Global Supplier Diversity & Inclusion – Reaching the Gold Standard

WEConnect International
The Gold Standard Checklist helps multinational corporations and multilateral organizations assess their global supplier diversity and inclusion programs and identify improvement areas. The checklist includes five sections and the goal is to reach 100 points – the Gold Standard. Learn more here

WEConnect International – Women’s Business Enterprise (WEB) Certification

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  • Supply Chain

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  • WEConnect International

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  • CCertification

TARGET AREA
  • Standards and Certifications

TARGET UNIT
  • Procurement

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WEConnect International – Women's Business Enterprise (WEB) Certification

WEConnect International
WEConnect International’s Women’s Business Enterprise (WBE) Certification allows corporate members to ensure that they are purchasing goods and/or services from women-owned businesses. The certification presents many benefits, such as networking opportunities, training workshops, and forums. There are four requirements for certification:

  • Ownership: A woman or women must hold 51 percent or more of the ownership assets in the company.
  • Management and control: Women owners must have independent and autonomous control of short-term and long-term business decisions.
  • Contribution of capital and expertise: Women owners must demonstrate a contribution of capital and/or expertise that corresponds to her ownership in the company.
  • Independence: Women owners must operate independently from males or male owned enterprises.

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WBE Canada Certification

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  • Supply Chain

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  • Women Business Enterprises (WEB) Canada

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  • CCertification

TARGET AREA
  • Standards and Certifications

TARGET UNIT
  • Procurement

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WBE Canada Certification

Women Business Enterprises (WEB) Canada
The Women’s Business Enterprise Canada Council (WBE Canada) has developed the WBE Certification, a formal verification for Canadian B2B businesses that are owned, managed, and controlled by women. Applicants must own, manage, and control at least 51 percent of their business.The WBE certification also connects them to corporate and supply chains. Corporations that join WBE as corporate members will be able to expand their sourcing options by gaining access to the WBE Canada online database of women suppliers certified.

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CGLCC Supplier Diversity Program

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  • Intersectionality
  • Supply Chain

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  • Canadian LGBT+ Chamber of Commerce (CGLCC)

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  • PProgram

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  • Standards and Certifications

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  • Procurement

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CGLCC Supplier Diversity Program

Canadian LGBT+ Chamber of Commerce (CGLCC)
The Canadian LGBT+ Chamber of Commerce’s (CGLCC) Supplier Diversity Program connects LGBT+ businesses in Canada with corporations, organizations, and government bodies eager to do business with them. CGLCC certifies LGBT+-owned businesses as diverse suppliers and helps them leverage that certification to grow their business, and it works with corporations, organizations, and government bodies to help them understand the LGBT+ market and connect with the CGLCC’s certified suppliers. CGLCC helps corporate members identify competitive suppliers of goods and services by participating in the Supplier Diversity Program.

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CAMSC Supplier Certification

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  • Intersectionality
  • Supply Chain

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  • Canadian Aboriginal and Minority Supplier Council (CAMSC)

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  • CCertification

TARGET AREA
  • Standards and Certifications

TARGET UNIT
  • Procurement

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CAMSC Supplier Certification

Canadian Aboriginal and Minority Supplier Council (CAMSC)
The Canadian Aboriginal and Minority Supplier Council (CAMSC) certifies and links Aboriginal and minority-owned businesses to purchasing opportunities at major corporations across Canada and the United States. CAMSC Supplier Certification is a market access tool that provides suppliers with a direct access point to major corporations, which value the business benefits of an inclusive and diverse supply chain.

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Gender Equality in Social Auditing Guidance

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  • Supply Chain

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  • Business for Social Responsibility

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  • GGuide

TARGET AREA
  • Implementation

TARGET UNIT
  • Diversity & Inclusion, Legal, Procurement

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Gender Equality in Social Auditing Guidance

Business for Social Responsibility
This report provides guidance on how organizations can integrate gender equality considerations within social auditing methodologies and processes. It identifies several systemic barriers that prevent current social audits from being gender-sensitive and provides a variety of recommendations to overcome these barriers. It provides organizations with information, recommendations, and case studies on how gender equality can be integrated within current auditing practices, including existing auditing verification measures across the supply chain, and includes a series of worker interviews.

The report highlights five reasons why addressing gender equality issues in global supply chains makes business sense:

  1. Helps to meet business targets
  2. Maintains a strong and stable workforce
  3. Increases productivity and cost saving
  4. Ensures compliance
  5. Encourages worker engagement

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