Comments on: GRI Sustainability Reporting in the Public Sector

By: Mehrdad Nazari

Mehrdad Nazari — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 04:14:52 +0000

Thanks for your comments, Henrik. The lack of reporting by NGO/NPOs is a sorry chapter. I am pleased to hear that you are helping your organization to become more transparent and accountable. I tried to help one of the NGOs I am affiliated with to pursue sustainability reporting. But that is/was not an easy task and some of the findings were not very comfortable. It seems that some NGOs continue to like to tell others what, how and why to do things (or not to do things) – but they don’t like to submit themselves to any rigorous standards…
Good luck with your reporting efforts! Mehrdad

By: Henrik

Henrik — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 03:53:46 +0000

You’re making an important point – the category system that is used by GRI needs to change. I myself am working for a non-profit organization, as when assigned the task of writing our first sustainability report looked at the GRI report list under the category of non-profit/other. 20 entries. When I looked around the other categories, I found several reports just at a glance that would belong in that category. Quite confusing, and unfortunately makes it harder for new reporters to find inspiration and guidance, especially for us NPO’s as so few of us report.