Pushing the Envelope on Transparency and Disclosure

The region’s premier think tank and training centre the Arabia CSR Network will host two trainings in the month of September on the GRI G4 Sustainability Reporting framework. The framework is widely accepted around the world as a de-facto standard for reporting and disclosures on social and environmental issues by organisations of all sizes and sectors. It offers a highly effective communication tool to reporting organisations that are keen to share their success stories and challenges in tackling non-financial, societal issues from the point of view of their business. It allows reporting organisations to go the extra mile in disclosing the vision, strategies, policies, initiatives, results and outcomes that make their sustainability initiatives meaningful and value-added. Reporting on non-financial aspects of the business has been on the rise in developed, developing and emerging markets, and here in the Arabian Gulf, there has been a flurry of sustainability reports that have been released by public sector, semi-government and private establishments. With this comes the growing need for capacity development in order to produce authenticated and credible reporting that stakeholders can rely on.