Resources

iDISC features a Global Network of Business Incubators representing over 150 organizations from about 70 countries worldwide. Global Network members have the possibility to showcase their activities to a broad audience of incubation experts, stakeholders and donors, and take part in Global Working Groups that collect and share best practices on business incubation issues in the areas of Women, Youth, and High Growth Enterprise Development. The Incubator Toolkit provides hands-on advice for various issues including setting up, managing and financing incubators, raising awareness, engaging partners, and monitoring and evaluation.

A partnership comprised of International Finance Corporation, Rio Tinto Alcan and Deloitte with additional support from the Government of Norway and the Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency has successfully developed a pilot version of the Planning and Financial Valuation Tool for Sustainability Investments that quantifies the value of sustainability investments, allowing the user to plan according.

This Good Practice Guidance recognizes the imperative to integrate health impact assessment with environmental and social impact assessments and provides the reader with management tools to achieve this.

This Toolkit has been developed as a globally applicable resource designed to help financial institutions support the management of forest resources through sustainable and legal timber production and processing, and markets for carbon and other ecosystem services.

Companies around the world engage in community investment (CI) efforts as a way to promote local development and benefit stakeholders in their areas of operations.  The aim of this handbook is to help IFC client companies and the wider private sector operating in emergining markets to think strategically about how they can support community investment projects that are successful, sustainable, and consistent with their business objectives. 

 

The idea for this guide originated from a specific site based request within Rio Tinto for information on incorporating gender considerations into a social baseline study. Advice was also sought regarding the development of gender appropriate programmes, located both within the business and the local community.

This report informs mining company staff of the potential gender impacts of mining projects and introduces some tools and approaches that they can use to conduct a gender impact assessment of these projects.

The Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) and IFC, the private-sector development arm of the World Bank, teamed up to help companies expand their sustainability reporting to include an emphasis on gender issues and to help companies capture and report on the value they provide through gender initiatives—including work with supply chains, consumers and investors.

Large-scale projects can induce in-migration, which can adversely affect local governments and communities. Until now, little information has been available to describe the phenomenon and promote improved assessment and management. IFC's Projects and People: A Handbook for Addressing Project-Induced In-Migration presents first-of-its-kind guidance on in-migration risk assessment and management.

 

This Note provides guidance on basic principles and general process steps that organizations from any sector and of any size should take into account when dealing with concerns and complaints from affected communities.