Nina Vollmer
Senior Children´s Rights and Business Specialist
Read more
Global Benchmark underway
The State of Children's Rights and Business 2023
Global Child Forum
The State of Children's Rights and Business 2023
Global Child Forum, in collaboration with the Boston Consulting Group, collects children’s rights data on some of the world’s most influential companies – assessing to what extent they address children’s rights in their public reporting. Since 2014, we have benchmarked nearly 3,000 of the world’s largest companies. All of our benchmarks can be found here.
This year, Global Child Forum is benchmarking 1,108 companies, distributed across eight sectors and six regions, against a set of 25 indicators. All companies included in the benchmark are part of the World Benchmarking Alliance’s SDG-2000 list. Based on the company’s score (0-10), companies are considered either as Beginners, Improvers, Achievers, or Leaders. For more information on the methodology, please see here.
About the selection of companies
Global Child Forum joined the World Benchmarking Alliance in 2020 and adopted their SDG2000 to our universe. A selection of 800 companies, based on size (largest revenue in 2022), geographic and sector spread, will form the basis for the global benchmark report 2023 that will be published in Q4. Because of our special focus on the Technology & Telecom and Food, Beverage & Personal Care sectors, additional companies in these sectors that are on the SDG2000 list, will also be benchmarked.
Disclaimer
Global Child Forum bases its benchmark scores on a company’s publicly available information, systematically assessing a corporate’s response to impacts on children’s rights. Scores are not a measure of actual company compliance with policies, outcomes of policies and/or programmes.
As a part of the benchmark process, preliminary scorecards are being sent to the companies, who are then offered the opportunity to review and give feedback on their scores, as well as provide additional evidence. Feedback is consequently reviewed and results updated accordingly. Not all companies acknowledge the feedback process. The benchmark process is visualized below.
If you have any questions about our benchmark or would like to get in touch with us, please email benchmark@globalchildforum.org.
Company list
The State of Children's Rights and Business 2023
Click here to view all the companies included in the Global Benchmark 2023.