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Global Child Forum
Business Academy
What is the Global Child Forum Business Academy?
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.
Business Academy
Past Participants
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.
Who can participate?
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.
The Workbook
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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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PRESS RELEASE: Global Child Forum Commends UN Committee's Historic Call for Action on Children's Right to a Clean and Sustainable Environment
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PRESS RELEASE: Global Child Forum Calls on European Commission to Tighten Children’s Rights Reporting Standards
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PRESS RELEASE: Majority of Food, Beverage & Personal Care Companies Fail to Address Childrens’ Rights
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PRESS RELEASE: Global Child Forum and The PRI are driving corporate action to improve children’s lives
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Mar 2022
PRESS RELEASE: Vodafone, Telenor, Deutsche Telekom top Global Child Forum’s Tech & Telecom Children’s Rights and Business Benchmark
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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PRESS RELEASE: Global Benchmark report 2021
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PRESS RELEASE: Global Child Forum opens their Business Academy
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.
