Benchmark Scorecard
Feedback Service

Global Child Forum

We can walk you through your benchmark scorecard

Global Child Forum offers companies tailored feedback on their benchmark scorecard.

This service represents a great opportunity for companies to better understand their position in relation to peers and how to improve in our next benchmark. It’s also a chance to increase your knowledge on how a company’s effect on children’s rights goes beyond child labour – which includes a better understanding of blind spots and areas of improvement.

In these sessions, we cover:

  • Identifying gaps and practical ways to improve.
  • Comparison to your closest competitors (of those benchmarked by Global Child Forum).
  • Concrete examples from peer companies that have reached Leader status and achieved a high score.
  • Suggestions for useful tools, resources and next steps.

Companies who already used this service emphasise how much it has helped them to not only better understand and interpret the score they have received, but also identify areas of opportunity in their organisation’s approach towards children.

Please note that we have limited slots available and therefore prioritise companies included in our latest benchmark.

 

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Nina Vollmer

Director Child Rights and Sustainability

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As the organisation’s senior expert, Nina conducts research and supports companies on how to improve their understanding of, and impact on children’s lives. She develops and works with the tools and services that Global Child Forum offers, including the Business Academy, Scorecard Feedback service, guidance and best practices. Nina also supports with content creation for events and communications. With responsibility for the methodology behind the Corporate Sector and Children’s Rights Benchmark, Nina is the appointed spokesperson for benchmark activities, and regularly speaks at key events and conferences. Nina holds a Master’s Degree in Political Science from Lund University (Sweden), and has worked both nationally and internationally with human rights and development within the NGO sector.
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Matthew Goodwin

Head of Sustainable Investing & Strategic Growth Lead

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Matthew is pioneering a new role at Global Child Forum as Head of Sustainable Investing, responsible for building Global Child Forum’s relationship with the financial services sector and ensuring that our sustainability data on children’s rights is made available to investors, asset managers and asset owners, helping them integrate children’s rights into their operations and investment decision-making process. Prior to joining Global Child Forum, he spent eight years at Lloyds Banking Group in London. Matthew studied Law and French at Université Paul Cézanne, Aix Marseille III and The University of Sheffield.
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The Scorecard Feedback Service gave me valuable insights about what we as a company can do to improve our benchmark score. The learnings have been very useful for me in my work!

Teodora Mitrovska-Forbord

Director of Sustainability, Telenor

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