Gender Reporting

IFC - Gender and Sustainability Reporting

Perspectives

Gender reporting multi-stakeholder workshop: New Delhi, India
March 24, 2009

When
Tuesday, March 24
9:00am - 5:00pm

Where
Willow Hall, Habitat World, IHC, New Delhi, India

View the workshop agenda.

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On Tuesday, March 24, 2009, a multi-stakeholder workshop took place in New Delhi, India. The workshop was attended by 29 participants representing companies (technology, automobile and consulting, real estate, energy, and SMEs), NGOs (women organizations, sustainability reporting and civil society organizations) international organizations and donors. Objectives of the session were to:

gather views of the participants on what gender issues that should be addressed and why
gain insight from participants on how to report on the issues identified

Similar to the London, Johannesburg and São Paulo workshops, feedback gathered during the sessions are to be incorporated in a Gender and Reporting Resource Document, which will help guide organizations with gender and sustainability reporting.

To kick off the discussion, participants were presented with a variety of terms by which to categorize gender issues:

Gender Equality and the Workplace	Gender Equality and the Community
Gender Equality and the Supply Chain	Gender Equality and Investors
Gender Equality and Consumers/Clients	Other
Gender Equality and Values/Governance

Participants agreed that their priority categories are:

Gender Equality and Workplace
Gender Equality and the Community
Gender Equality and Corporate Governance and Values

In addition to presentations by the GRI and IFC facilitators, Infosys, a global leader in the "next generation" of IT and consulting with revenues of over US$ 4 billion, gave a presentation on how they manage and report on gender issues.

Delhi workshop participants