Benchmarks

How do the world’s most influential companies respond to children’s rights?

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The State of Children’s Rights & Business

Since 2013, Global Child Forum has benchmarked companies in collaboration with Boston Consulting Group, with the goal of assessing their performance on children’s rights. Our unique data can be used by corporates to increase their social impact, and by investors to inform their decision-making.

Our business universe is the SDG2000 – companies identified by the World Benchmarking Alliance as the most influential in reaching the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals by 2030. To date, we’ve assessed nearly 3000 companies.

Knowledge and insights from our children’s rights benchmark equip businesses to meet the ever increasing demands of financial investors, governments, civil society, and the communities in which they operate. Businesses can assess their performance in relation to peers from their sector, industry or region – and the data is highly relevant for investors and other stakeholders that assess or rank companies.

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Global Benchmark

Are companies respecting
children’s rights in 2024?

It’s time to find out!

Global Child Forum’s latest benchmark analysed 1,802 of the world’s most influential companies to assess their approach to child rights.

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Top 5

Best performing companies

Since 2013, Global Child Forum benchmark data has been used by corporates to increase their social impact, and by investors to inform their decision-making.

The scores in this top list come from the Global Benchmark 2024, and are based on the total selection of 1,802 companies – find out more about which companies were benchmarked here.

Choose your sector to see the top five scoring companies within the specific sector, or search for a specific company result below.

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Company Average score
Wilmar International
PLDT
Hershey
Musim Mas
PepsiCo
Siemens
Bouygues Group
Owens Corning
Iberdrola
Holcim
Norsk Hydro
Lundin Mining
Teck Resources
Newmont
Suzano
Puma
ANTA
Kering
Fung Group
Hyundai Motor
Neste
Idemitsu Kosan
OMV
BP
Formosa Petrochemical
Lodha
Sun Life Financial
UOB
KB Financial Group
Maybank
Wilmar International
Hershey
Musim Mas
PepsiCo
Aldi Nord
Merck
Bayer
Sun Pharma
Aspen Pharmacare
Lupin
PLDT
Telenor
Verizon
Telia
Tele2
Governance &
Collaboration
Workplace
Marketplace
Community &
Environment

Methodology


Corporate Sector & Children’s Rights
Benchmark Series



Global Child Forum

Learn about our methodology

Tools and services

Improve your benchmark score

The Workbook

Don’t know where to start? Discover how to protect and support children’s rights in your business

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Scorecard Feedback Service

We guide you through your company scorecard, providing a gap analysis and tips on what to improve

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The Corporate Playbook

Embedding Children’s Rights in ESRS Reporting - a guide developed with support from the LEGO Group

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Learn from your peers

Reporting best practices

Take a look at some examples of how companies are clearly and effectively reporting on children’s rights, and boosting their benchmark score!

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Johan Öberg

Managing Director and Senior Partner
Boston Consulting Group
Global Child Forum Board

For over a decade, we’ve been supporting Global Child Forum’s work to produce The Corporate Sector and Children’s Rights Benchmark. It is the world’s largest benchmark, dedicated to measuring a company’s progress and processes on children’s rights in order to help companies have a positive impact on children’s lives.

Benchmark data & sustainable investment

A valuable resource for investors

Sustainable investors use our benchmark data to inform their decision-making processes, and reduce their child rights risk exposure.

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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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Clémence Gervais

Benchmark manager

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Clémence is Global Child Forum’s Benchmark Manager. She holds a Master’s Degree in Public Health from the French School of Public Health (EHESP), as well as a Master’s Degree in Political Science from Sciences Po Rennes (France). Before joining Global Child Forum, Clémence worked as a Project Officer at the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control in Stockholm. Prior to that, she evolved professionally in several organisations in France, Peru, and Sweden, coordinating projects and missions related to social work and public health.
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Matthew Goodwin

Head of Sustainable Investing

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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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