CIVICUS’ approach to environmental stewardship
CIVICUS has made improvements on their environmental practices since its last report. Their new and comprehensive Environmental Policy was put in place with detailed information on efforts to mitigate negative environmental impacts. It includes targets in the areas of energy and water, office supplies, transportation, maintenance and cleaning, and culture. Environmental awareness training is being introduced for staff in parallel with the new policy.
World YWCA’s Approach to Feedback from Internal Stakeholders
A helpful illustrative example is provided, outlining how MAs, staff, and partner organisations provided input on the development of World YWCA’s Goal 2035. The Panel notes positively the efforts to obtain input from a diverse membership base and to gather feedback in several rounds of consultations over several years.
Terre Des Homme’s approach to stakeholder engagement
The response explains how consultation with stakeholders led to TDH shifting its campaign on “trafficked children” to “children on the move”. The Destination Unknown campaign involves youth activists, engages a youth group in decision making processes, and shares this key stakeholder group’s perspective in a “Youth Call” outlining demands and proposals raised by youth.
Oxfam’s adaptive approach to campaigning design and implementation
A shared power analysis is developed with stakeholders at the outset of any campaign development, with all relevant stakeholders mapped and consulted in ways tailored to their particular needs. Internal stakeholders such as affiliate representatives might be engaged to help co-create the policy position; whereas with external stakeholders such as potential coalition allies they might share and adopt a common strategy; and with potential targets of their advocacy they might engage as sounding boards to informally check their objectives and key messages.
Oxfam takes stakeholder engagement to the next level
In the last Accountability Report they described early efforts to consider an Oxfam-wide comprehensive Stakeholder Engagement Policy. The development of this Policy was put on hold in mid- 2015 given the direction of the Oxfam 2020 organisational change programme. Oxfam 2020 will significantly reshape the nature of all stakeholder relationships within the confederation. The extent of the changes to all stakeholder relationships caused them to pause the development of a Stakeholder Engagement Policy until the precise modalities of the new arrangements have been worked out in full.
World Vision’s workshop strengthening accountability at the national level
In 2014, World Vision initiated accountability reporting at national offices, encouraging different offices to include an accountability component in their annual external reports, without having to write a separate report. This effort commenced with an accountability workshop for 29 staff members, organised in Swaziland, where a template and guide were developed.
SOS Children’s Villages engages in a dialogue between employees and management
SOS Children’s Villages uses online communications forums that not only serve to inform stakeholders about the actions performed by legal bodies, but focus lies on creating a two-way communication and fostering dialogue and engagement of stakeholders.
Amnesty International engages with stakeholders in 79% of all its projects
A wide range of relationships are being managed across the movement, with the people whose rights AI seeks to advance – human rights defenders, affected rights-holders, and members of local partner organisations. The manner of engagement varies depending on the context and scale of the work, and takes place through online and offline meetings, project planning and project review discussions and – in the context of research – interviews.
CARE carried out a workshop with Senior Management Team for its accountability report
CARE International sees it as one of their Secretariat’s key responsibilities to pilot and model accountability approaches, including their engagement with Accountable Now, with the expectation that this will help promote good practice throughout the confederation.