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 # Sustainability Education Partnership in Peru Reaps Results

 

##### Global Reporting Initiative and Centrum PUCP recognized for sustainability reporting training 

 

 

 Sep 2, 2021 9:45 AM ET

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A highly successful initiative to help smaller companies in Peru to embrace transparency and adopt sustainable business practices has received global recognition.

GRI’s [Corporate Sustainability and Reporting for Competitive Business](https://www.globalreporting.org/public-policy-partnerships/strategic-partners-programs/corporate-sustainability-and-reporting-for-competitive-business/) (CSRCB) program – supported by the Swiss Confederation’s State Secretariat for Economic Affairs (SECO) – has provided small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in six countries with sustainability reporting training and guidance. In Peru, it engaged 1,100 companies, leading to more than 800 first-time GRI reports being produced.

The European Foundation for Management Development (EMFD) Excellence in Practice Awards 2021 has recognized the educational collaboration aspect of GRI’s work in Peru, with a [Silver Award for Social & Environmental Impact](https://www.efmdglobal.org/awards/eip-excellence-in-practice-award/efmd-excellence-in-practice-award-2021-winners/) given to Centrum PUCP Business School and GRI.

With support from the CSRCB program, GRI and 100 students and professors from Centrum PUCP delivered a series of sustainability reporting workshops and events for SMEs and other stakeholders, including a conference with 800 participants, and sustainability reporting awareness training for 127 Peruvian journalists.

**Daniel Vargas, GRI Country Manager for Peru, said:**

> “Our partnership with Centrum PUCP has been hugely rewarding, enabling us to deepen our engagement with companies in Peru. Not only has this been a factor in increasing the practice of sustainability reporting by SMEs, it has helped multiple stakeholders to understand the value of sustainability data.
> 
> The learnings from the CSRCB program in Peru, and the role of academics and journalists in encouraging sustainable business, has informed GRI’s new SECO-funded program, which is continuing to enable us to drive up sustainability disclosure and accountability in the Hispanic America region.”

**Percy Marquina, CEO of Centrum PUCP, added:**

> “At Centrum PUCP, we encourage our students to have a more holistic and sustainable vision of business models, integrating the community and stakeholders. I am pleased that this program has helped SMEs link the GRI Standards and the Sustainable Development Goals, bringing together business management with a sustainable vision.”

**Want to know more?**

- In June, GRI and SECO [announced Sustainability Reporting for Responsible Business](https://www.globalreporting.org/about-gri/news-center/swiss-government-renews-gri-partnership-to-spread-sustainability-reporting-globally/), a new program focused on organizations in Hispanic America, Africa and South East Asia
- GRI [held a virtual ceremony](https://youtu.be/P7wnR4pSQbM) this summer to recognize 430 companies in Colombia and Peru that published a 2020 sustainability report
- GRI’s [Best practices in sustainability by Peruvian MSMEs](https://www.globalreporting.org/about-gri/news-center/sustainability-as-a-competitive-advantage-lessons-from-peru/) shares case studies on how businesses have used sustainability as a competitive advantage

[Global Reporting Initiative](https://www.globalreporting.org/) (GRI) is the independent, international organization that helps businesses and other organizations take responsibility for their impacts, by providing the global common language to report those impacts. The [GRI Standards](https://www.globalreporting.org/standards/) are developed through a multi-stakeholder process and provided as a free public good.

[Centrum PUCP](https://centrum.pucp.edu.pe/centrum/) is the business school of Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú. It has a mission to create *‘agents of change with a positive impact on society’.*

The [GRI Academy](https://www.globalreporting.org/reporting-support/gri-academy/), launched in 2020, provides sustainability professionals around the world with access to high-quality, online training and courses.



 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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