User’s Guide

In 2006 ECCR published The Bench Marks: A User's Guide.

Written to introduce and help people and organisations use the Bench Marks as a tool for assessing and reporting on company behaviour, the Guide was first presented at ECCR's Workshop on Churches, Civil Society, Multinational Companies and Corporate Responsibility in Central and Eastern Europe, October 2006, in Prague, Czech Republic.

The workshop and publication of the Guide had financial support from the European Union.

The 20-page Guide focuses on:

• the Bench Marks approach
• Bench Marks themes and stakeholder groups
• linking between 'host' and 'home' country communities, faith groups and organisations
• how to develop a framework for research, measurement and action
• measuring company performance
• engaging with companies to effect change
• developing an ethical investment policy
• sources of further information.

[Download the Guide] (pdf)