Interested in joining the Business Academy?
Reach out to our Corporate Engagement Manager Sean O’Shea, and he’ll tell you more!

The Business Academy is an exclusive training programme designed to equip your company with the knowledge and tools needed to integrate a child rights perspective into your operations.
The programme focuses on peer-to-peer networking and collaboration in a small group, with the aim of solving real problems together. This takes place under the guidance of our experts, with inspiration from companies who have progressed on their journey and can share their experience.
The Business Academy covers business-critical issues, linking these to children’s rights perspectives and highlighting the potential for both negative and positive impact on children’s lives. The issues are also clearly linked to other sustainability perspectives, such as the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDG).
The programme of workshops is carried out throughout the year.
Arja Mehtälä
Corporate Responsibility Manager at Elisa
The Global Child Forum Business Academy programme has enabled peer-to-peer networking and given us new ideas in our work.
Our Business Academy is open to SDG2000 companies within the Tech & Telecom and Food, Beverages and Personal care sectors. The service is available to companies with a desire to improve their work around sustainability, while looking to integrate children’s rights in a more robust way.
The Business Academy aims to provide your company with guidance and valuable tools to better understand and incorporate a child rights perspective, improving your benchmark score and enabling you to become a “Leader” in the ranking.
The programme is directed towards (but not limited to) sustainability or human rights executives and managers. The professionals attending are typically tasked with engaging on these topics with other functions or business areas within a company.
Reach out to our Corporate Engagement Manager Sean O’Shea, and he’ll tell you more!
The Workbook
Take a look at our Children's Rights and Business Workbook, a step-by-step guide on how to incorporate children's rights into your business processes.
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Global Child Forum, which produces the world’s largest benchmark on companies’ impact on children, today released its global report on the state of children’s rights in the food, beverage and personal care sector,
Global Child Forum benchmark data on children’s rights and business is a core pillar in The PRI’s human rights data, offerings investors an understanding of how children’s rights issues are being measured across sectors.
Stockholm-based Global Child Forum today announced the results of their latest benchmark report which takes a close look at the state of children’s rights within the Technology and Telecommunications sector.
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Stockholm-based Global Child Forum announced today the launch of their newest program, The Business Academy, designed to be a children’s rights and business accelerator helping companies focus on their children’s rights risks and opportunities, supported with peer-to-peer learning.