GRI Certified Training Programmes
Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) G4 training in Africa 2015
MHCi through its subsidiary CSRFI leads the consortium to run GRI G4 Certified courses in sub-Saharan Africa. We are currently developing our programme for 2015 and shall hold training sessions in Nairobi, Mauritius, Accra, Lagos, Dakar with sessions under negotiation to be held in Gabarone, Luanda, Lusaka, Dar-es-Salaam and Maputo. Contact us for more details on any of the locations at enquiries@csrfi.com .
As an introduction to what CSRFI and its partners will offer, check out this video discussion of 6 minutes between Enrique Torres and Michael Hopkins on what you can expect from our GRI G4 two-day (or other arrangement) trainings.
Coming Up: Mauritius over 12-13 February 2015, Nairobi 13-14 March, Accra 13-14 March 2015
We shall follow the below programme in both cases, and in Mauritius will be led by GRI certified trainers Dr. Michael Hopkins and Maga Ramasamy (Head of CSR/Sustainability, Air Mauritius) – see recent 90 sec. video of Maga on GRI and application to Air Mauritius etc. You may pay now for this course and take advantage of our Early Bird offer (see ‘BUY NOW’ left side panel)
Both above videos courtesy of Michiel van der Zeeuw, Amsterdam.
Contact us for more details on enquiries@csrfi.com
Michael and Maga in Mauritius Nov 2014
Course in Nairobi successfully completed in October 2014 – led by former GRI Senior Manager Learning Services, Enrique Torres
Participants at Nairobi course and Head of Safaricom Sustainability Reporting, the brilliant (really!) Karen Basiye, pictured immediately above
GRI G4 Certified Training Courses in sub-Saharan Africa: Angola, Botswana, Cameroun, Cape Verde, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia, Ghana, Guinea-Bissau, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Mauritius, Mozambique, Namibia, Nigeria, Rwanda, São Tomé and Príncipe, Senegal, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe. See:
The Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) is the most widely used framework for
sustainability reporting. It helps companies to implement corporate social responsibility into their daily business and to report transparently on the social, economic and environmental performance of their organisation. GRI launched the G4 Guidelines in May2014 and is the focus of this workshop. Participants will be trained on how to use the G4 Guidelines for their sustainability reporting.
- Typical workshop May 2014
Our Typical Programme
Day 1
08.30: Welcome
09.00: PART I – INTRODUCTION
– Sustainability Reporting and GRI
– GRI G4 Guidelines
– Introduction to the GRI reporting process
11.30: PART II – PREPARE: Plan your reporting process
– Imagine your GRI Sustainability Report
– Develop an action plan
– How to start the process
– Group exercise
13:00: Lunch break
14.00: PART III – CONNECT: Engage with your stakeholders
– Why engage with your stakeholders?
– Identify stakeholders
– Prioritise stakeholders
– Dialogue with stakeholders
– Group exercise
16.00: PART IV – DEFINE: Defining your material aspects and boundaries
– Introduction to defining material aspects
– Identification of relevant topics
17.00: Q&A session
17.30: End of first day
Day 2
08.30: Opening Coffee Break and Review of the first day
09.30: PART IV – DEFINE: Defining your material aspects and boundaries (cont.)
– Priorisation
– Validation
– Group exercise
11.30: PART V – MONITOR: Build your report
– Check internal systems
– Discuss and set performance targets
13:00: Lunch break
14.00: PART VI – REPORT: Communicate
– Write and finalise the report
– Communicate
– Prepare for the next cycle
– Report evaluation exercise
17.00: Closing
– Closing remarks
– Information on feedback form and certificate
17.30: End of workshop
Workshop Overall Trainers: Michael Hopkins and MagaRamasamy
A word on payment
There is an ability to pay shown on the LHS with the ‘Buy Now’ button. Unfortunately it does not always work to accept credit cards in all countries and in some countries you will have to open a Paypal account – in fact Paypal assures us you put in exactly the same information as for a credit card. If you would like to avoid that we can simply send you an invoice and you pay by bank transfer (kindly contact us via enquiries@csrfi.com). We apologise for the inconvenience and are working on an alternative. Let me assure you that as a UK Public Limited and Registered Company we always honour our commitments, we would anyway but we are also obliged to by UK Law..
Further Details:
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1. Privacy Policy – We do not store credit card details nor do we share customer financial details with any 3rd parties.
2. Refund / Cancelation Policy – You may cancel up to 14 days before the start of the course and we shall offer a full refund. Should you fall ill or other medical emergency we shall refund up to the last minute but would need to see a medical certificate.
3. Contact us – best way to contact us is via e-mail on enquiries@csrfi.com. Our postal address is CSRFI/MHC International Ltd, 24 Chiswell St, London EC1Y 4YX, UK.
4. Our full business trading name is CSRFI which is a wholly owned subsidiary of the social enterprise MHC International Ltd (MHCI) and which is registered at UK Company House under the registration number: 02263853
