AccountAbility is to launch an exposure draft of the first international standard for stakeholder engagement: the AA1000SES.
The AA1000SES exposure draft, according to AccountAbility's Head of Standards, Alan Knight answers an urgent need to establish a clear and agreed basis for quality stakeholder engagement.
'In our view, giving stakeholders the right to be heard - and obliging organisations to respond - advances organisational performance in line with the imperatives of sustainable development,' he said.
The standard is a principle-based, open-source framework that offers coherent and practical guidance for designing, implementing, and assuring the quality of stakeholder engagements. It can be used by a wide range of users, including businesses, civil society, labour organisations, and public agencies and for a wide range of applications, from the micro, organisation-specific level to macro-level engagements on major societal concerns, expectations and outcomes.
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