Certified Training Program Learning Objectives

The certified training program is given by local training partners around the world.

It is minimum a 16 hour program covering the following learning objectives.

Part 1: Conceptual introduction and preparation of a GRI reporting process

The participants should be able to:

·         Explain in their own words what a sustainability report is.

·         Identify, using their own words, the main potential benefits and challenges of the process involved in producing a report.

·         Give examples of links between everyday organizational activities and their economic, social and environmental impacts based on their own current experience and context.

·         Recognize some “self-assessment tools” (local or not) for initial evaluation of such impacts.

·         Identify the Global Compact Principles and relate them to the GRI reporting process.

·         List the steps to plan and present a reporting process.

Part 2: Dialogue with stakeholders and credibility of the reporting process

The participants should be able to:

·         Explain in their own words how they would decide which are the priority stakeholders in their context.

·         Justify why stakeholders’ input is critical for the success of the reporting process.

·         Explain the difference between a GRI category, GRI aspect and a GRI indicator.

·         Explain what is the GRI materiality principle and what is the result of its applicability.

·         Explain and give examples of the GRI G3 reporting principles.

Part 3: Defining the content of the report and monitoring

The participants should be able to:

·         Show, using examples, how an organization should report on material indicators which are not ready to be reported on.

·         Explain the difference between self-declared GRI report levels and assurance on report information.

Part 4: Preparing final reporting and communicating

The participants should be able to:

·         Identify the obligatory components of a GRI G3 report.

·         Identify the 5 key steps in the development of a GRI reporting process.

·         Justify the internal and external value of reporting.

·         Give examples of GRI reports where the Global Compact Principles were considered in the reporting process.

·         Explain what a high quality sustainability report entails.