Responsible Business Initiative Information

RBI - is the nation’s first enabler of socially responsible business. It offers a neutral forum for business-stakeholder dialogue towards shared goals of sustainable development and responsible business in the region. RBI founding member of SouthAsia Forum on Responsible Business (SAFoRB ), Asia Pacific CSR Network, UNGC & EFMD Globally Responsible Leaders Initiative (GRLI) , the South-Asia Alliance for Responsible Business (SAARB) . Represented on the Stakeholder Council of the Global Reporting Initiative(GRI) and Asia Pacific Round table for Sustainable Consumption & Production. RBI directly involved with appraisal, active research benchmarking, and capacity-building interventions on Responsible Business since 1997. RBI was engaged with Social Accountability International (SAI) for SA8000 standard, and participated in developing the GRI Sustainability Guidelines, Transparency International-SAI Guidelines to Counter Corruption, the Fairtrade sourcing guidelines for sporting goods, the AccountAbility Stakeholder Engagement Handbook and its Responsible Competitiveness Report. Emerging from almost a decade of direct and intensive engagement with its diverse stakeholder universe is RBI’s Responsible Business Framework, a conceptual and process framework to help businesses and their assessors determine the direction of Corporate CSR and its impact on the bottom-line.