Current Projects
- Global Reporting Initiative Business Transparency Program: Helping business, companies and/or suppliers produce their first sustainability report. Global Reporting Initiative's Business Transparency Program supports individual company and/or groups of companies in sustainability reporting - from introducing them to sustainability and transparency to publishing their first sustainability report.
- Quality Control Evaluation of the Global Reporting Initiative Certified Training Programs: The Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) is an international not for profit organization whose mission is to make reporting on economic, environmental and social performance a standard practice for all organization as much as financial reporting. The GRI seeks to achieve this developing, continually improving and building capacity around the use of its Sustainability Reporting Frameworks. An important way that GRI intends to build capacity is through the "GRI Certified Training Programs". GRI has the responsibility to check the quality of the training programs worldwide by providing a number of quality control activities.
- Global Value Project: The project is one of the largest EU-funded research projects. It is implemented by the Institute for Managing Sustainability, together with 11 leading research institutions, civil society organisations and companies from Europe, Asia and Africa. Launched in January, 2014 and running for a period of three years. GLOBAL VALUE will develop and test a reference framework for MNCs to measure and manage their impacts on global development. The framework and online tool will not only help MNCs to understand their impacts and improve their management, but will also support the policy community in refining the ways the private sector is engaged in global development efforts.
- Coaching Program on Environmental, Social and Corporate Governance (ESG) Reporting: In recent years there has been an expanding effort and growing imperative to relate ESG management to the financial performance of companies and investors. Not only do sustainability stakeholders view the flow of capital as a critical element of the long-term transition to a more sustainable world, but investors across asset classes are recognizing that management of environmental, social, and governance (ESG) issues is material to long-term value creation. Private equity funds are in a strong position to capitalize on this transition. They often own a controlling interest in their portfolio companies and take an active role in driving operational and strategic improvements. As a result, they are well positioned to accelerate the adoption of more socially and environmentally sustainable ways of doing business. By producing ESG or Sustainability Report, the investors and the portfolio companies are taking their ownership in telling their shareholders, strategic partners and stakeholders about their operational performance story.
- Development of ESG Guidelines and Capacity Building Training for an Investment Company listed on the London Stock Exchange's AIM whose has net asset value as at September 30, 2014 was USD 133,075,826.41 is to achieve long-term capital appreciation by investing in a diversified portfolio of companies domiciles either in Vietnam or having a significant portion of their assets or operations in Vietnam.