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Amnesty International UK is recruiting a CSR manager to manage its in-house ethical performance.
The appointment, which is unusual for a non-governmental organization (NGO), is part of Amnesty’s policy to practise what it preaches on responsible behaviour. Last year it was one of 11 founding signatories to an NGO Accountability Charter (EP8, issue 4).
Amnesty International UK decided in 2004 to become one of the few NGOs to produce a non-financial report (EP6, issue 3), and the charter commits signatories to report at least once a year on their ‘activities and achievements’. Amnesty has yet to produce its first non-financial report, but the new appointment, when made, should hasten this.
‘We’ve undertaken a full audit of all our systems, policies and processes using the best practice standards provided by the Global Reporting Initiative and have been busy analysing the results,’ said Amnesty. ‘Now we will recruit a CSR and accountability manager who ... will strengthen our accountability infrastructure and work with our management team to co-ordinate all existing reporting systems and develop new ones.’
Since the charter was created last autumn, 37 other groups have signed up, but 36 of those are country networks of founding signatories. The only new name is CEE Bankwatch Network, which monitors the environmental and social impacts of international development finance.
Other signatories to the charter include Greenpeace, Oxfam and Action Aid.
The appointment, which is unusual for a non-governmental organization (NGO), is part of Amnesty’s policy to practise what it preaches on responsible behaviour. Last year it was one of 11 founding signatories to an NGO Accountability Charter (EP8, issue 4).
Amnesty International UK decided in 2004 to become one of the few NGOs to produce a non-financial report (EP6, issue 3), and the charter commits signatories to report at least once a year on their ‘activities and achievements’. Amnesty has yet to produce its first non-financial report, but the new appointment, when made, should hasten this.
‘We’ve undertaken a full audit of all our systems, policies and processes using the best practice standards provided by the Global Reporting Initiative and have been busy analysing the results,’ said Amnesty. ‘Now we will recruit a CSR and accountability manager who ... will strengthen our accountability infrastructure and work with our management team to co-ordinate all existing reporting systems and develop new ones.’
Since the charter was created last autumn, 37 other groups have signed up, but 36 of those are country networks of founding signatories. The only new name is CEE Bankwatch Network, which monitors the environmental and social impacts of international development finance.
Other signatories to the charter include Greenpeace, Oxfam and Action Aid.
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