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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Benchmark Report 2024

Are companies respecting
children’s rights in 2024?

It’s time to find out!

Global Child Forum’s latest benchmark is underway, and this year we’re analysing 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 2023, and are based on the total selection of 1108 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
Nestlé
Telia
General Mills
The Hershey Company
Airbus
Wesfarmers
Volvo AB
Schneider Electric
Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy
Bayer
POSCO
Norsk Hydro
Vale
Glencore
Kering
Ingka Holding (Ikea)
Ford
LVMH Moet Hennessy - Louis Vuitton
General Motors Corporation (GM)
OMV
Neste
Galp Energia
SK Innovation
Compania Espanola de Petroleos (CEPSA)
NN Group
Absa Group
Westpac
Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria (BBVA)
Itau Unibanco Holding
Wilmar International
Nestlé
General Mills
The Hershey Company
Jeronimo Martins
Merck KGaA
Sanofi
AstraZeneca
Aspen Pharmacare
Merck & Co
Telia
Verizon
Vodafone
PLDT
Cisco
Governance &
Collaboration
Workplace
Marketplace
Community &
Environment

Methodology

Corporate Sector & Children’s Rights
Benchmark Series

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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 Magnifier - Child Rights Knowledge Test

Identify your knowledge gaps in ten minutes, and learn about related risks and opportunities

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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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Sean O’Shea

Head of Corporate Engagement

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Sean works as our Head of Corporate Engagement. Prior to joining Global Child Forum, he worked at the Stockholm School of Economics as a Corporate Project Manager. Before moving to Stockholm in 2021, Sean worked as the Private Secretary to the Ambassador of Japan to the UK and earlier, as a Senior Parliamentary Assistant and Chief of Staff to several members of the UK Parliament. Sean has a degree in Politics and International Relations from the University of Exeter. He joined Global Child Forum in September 2022.
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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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