ISO 26000 Review and Survey 2014 Status January 21

Status of the 2014 systematic review of ISO 26000:2010 and

preliminary results of the 2014 PPO survey

By Staffan Söderberg January 21, [email protected] www.amap.se Vice Chair Post Publication Organization ISO 26000

A few words on the context of the

ISO systematic review and the parallel PPO survey

Background (1)

• The final plenary meeting of the international Working Group on Social Responsibility (WG SR) it recommended that the systematic review of the International Standard ISO 26000:2100 was to take place no later that 3 years after publication

• “Systematic review” is a well defined procedure within ISO, through which all full members of ISO (approximately 117 National Standards Bodies, NSBs, countries) are asked if the standard should be– Confirmed– Revised/amended– Converted into another form of deliverable, or– Withdrawn

• The systematic review, 5 months, was launched to the member bodies October 15, 2013 and ends March 15, 2014.

Background (2)• In parallel, the Post Publication Organisation (PPO, the former

leadership of WG SR from the ISO member bodies of Sweden and Brazil) launched a survey to all 164 ISO member bodies and the ISO 26000 liaison organisations in order to identify additional information.

• PPO leadership will consultPPO Stakeholder Advisory Group (PPO SAG, 38 delegates, 27 alternates, built from the former WG SR Chairman Advisory Group) and the PPO National Standards Bodies Information Network (PPO NIN, 60+ members from 30+ NSBs)

• PPO leadership issues its final recommendation to ISO Technical Management Board (ISO TMB) for their decision which will be taken hopefully before summer holiday 2014.

• PPO will base its final recommendation on all information found, especially the input from the stakeholder advisory group physical meeting in April 2014.

Background (3)The members of the PPO SAG were selected by the stakeholder groups themselves apart from those individuals that are important for the WG SR institutional memory.

MEMBER-SHIP

POSITION REPRESENTATIVES ALTERNATE REPRESENTATIVES

The former WG SR leadership

Chair Jorge E. R. Cajazeira  Vice chair Staffan Söderberg  Secretary Kristina Sandberg  Co-secretary Eduardo Campos de São Thiago  

Stake-holder categories

Consumer Ratna Devi Nadarajan (Malaysia) Felicia Monye (Nigeria)

Sri Ram Khanna (India) Gefei Yin (China)Sadie Homer (CI) Claus Jørgensen (Denmark) Linda Golodner (US) Jorge Molina (Mexico)  Jens Henriksson (Sweden)

Government Kernaghan Webb (UN GC) Anthony Miller (UNCTAD)Wolfram Tertschnig (Austria) Antje Brehmer (Germany)Sufyan Alirhayim (Oman) Parveen Kumar Gambhir

(India)Andrea Santini Henriques (Brazil)

Industry Luisa Diaz (Costa Rica) Khatoon Al Ansari (Bahrain)Alan Fine (South Africa) Sebastian Bigorito (Argentina)Anne Gadegaard (Denmark) Michael Chiam (Malaysia)Adam Greene (IOE) Marie d’Huart (Belgium)   Karla Guerrero (Mexico)   Sebastiano Toffaletti

(NORMAPME)Labour Dwight Justice (ITUC) Mariatou Coulibaly (Cote

d’Ivoire)Clóvis Scherer (Brazil) Peter Colley (Australia) Ornella Cilona (Italy) Nathalie Guay (Canada) Thomas Thomas (Singapore) Ismael Higareda (Mexico)

NGO Khawla Al-Muhannadi (Bahrain) Bart Slob (Red Puentes) Aron Belinky (Brazil) Kim Christiansen (Denmark)Sandra Atler (Sweden) Adrian Henriques (UK) Carolyn Schmidt (Ecologia) Daira Gomez (Costa Rica)  Kaori Kuroda (Japan)

SSRO Hans Kröder (The Netherlands) Joanne Petrini (Canada) Michelle Bernhart (IABC) Divya Kirti Gupta (India)Yassir Yaghfouri (Morocco) Suharman Nurman (Indonesia)Dante Pesce (Interam. CSR Network)

Elisabeth Ekener Petersen (Sweden)

Additional representatives

ILO Emily SimsGRI Pietro Bertazzi

Thomas HaueterUN Global Compact Kernaghan Webb

Represenatives from the former Task Groups

TG 1 Convenor Beer BudooTG 1 Co-convenor Lars-Gunnar LundhTG 2 Convenor Hidemi TomitaTG 2 Co-convenor Adriana RosenfeldTG 3 Convenor Sophie ClivioTG 3 Co-convenor -TG 4 Convenor Jonathon HanksTG 4 Co-convenor Ken-ichi KumagaiTG 5 Convenor Pierre MazeauTG 5 Co-convenor Charlene HewatTG 6 Convenor Martin NeureiterTG 6 Co-convenor Koneru Vijaya

LakshmiISO Central Secretariat

Project leader José Alcorta

(Representatives update this list when needed)

Since the publication of in October 2010 the PPO has surveyed and gathered information in order to give advice to ISO when needed.

Each stakeholder group is represented by 4 representatives and 4 alternatives. Before March 15 the composition and membership of PPO SAG will be re-confirmed. It is up to each stakeholder group to set up and apply procedures to engage their stakeholder group and appoint representatives / alternates. The PPO leadership is not involved in these procedures but can invite additional members to PPO SAG if certain stakeholders or expert areas are not represented and PPO leadership needs additional advice.

Background

(4)

Assess and advise ISO/TMB on any proposals to revise ISO 26000

Advise ISO/CS on requests for interpretation of ISO 26000 from NSBs

Advise ISO/CS on promotion, communication and training activities

Gather information to identify good and bad practices in using ISO 26000, and report to ISO/CS

Review and assess results of the systematic review and advise ISO/TMB.

Background (5)

ISO 26000 PPO Terms of

Reference

Results from the ISO systematic review and

the PPO survey

Results from the ISO systematic

review

The systematic review ends March 15 and the results will analyzed and integrated in the PPO advice to ISO TMB

Results from the PPO 2014 survey

The results from the PPO Survey have been received and some of the results have been analyzed and are presented in the following slides. The narrative responses are under analysis and the results will be available, communicated and integrated in the PPO advice to ISO TMB.

164 ISO member bodies and the former WG SR liaisons were surveyed.101 response-files received out of which only 55 were from known countries. Therefore, the results presented here are preliminary and not final as some countries must clarify some responses. The reason why this preliminary data is presented already now is that there are important local meetings taking place during January and February and although preliminary, this information may help the meetings.

Approximately 50 % of the respondents are so called developing countries and 50 % are so called developed countries.

Preliminary results!

Results from the PPO survey, countriesResponses from (tbc): Algeria, Argentina, Australia, Austria, Bhutan, Bosnia Hercegovina, Brazil, Canada, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cote D’Ivoire, Croatia, Czech republic, Dominican Republic, Egypt, Eritrea, Finland, France, Gabon, Ghana, Guinea Bissau, India, Indonesia, Iran, Ireland, Israel, Japan, Latvia, Malaysia, Malawi, Malta, Montenegro, Namibia, New Zealand, The Netherlands, Norway, Papua New Guinea, Portugal, Republic of Korea, Saudi Arabia, Switzerland, Nigeria, St Vincent and the Grenadines, Serbia, Singapore, Spain, Suriname, Sweden, Thailand, UAE, UK, USA, Vietnam, Zimbabwe,

101 responses:11 of these submitted only a partially completed response 15 of these submitted more than one reply either through different individuals or from the same individual9 responses were complete/incomplete and from an unknown country

Preliminary results!

1. ISO 26000 is available in many different languages, formally translated

English, Spanish, French, Vietnamese, Thai, Arabic, Norwegian, Indonesian, German, Czech, Montenegrin, Portuguese, Serbian, Norwegian, Dutch, Japanese, Finnish, Swedish

Earlier known translations: Bulgarian, Kazakh, Korean, Mongolian, Polish, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak,

Under development: Farsi, Italian, Estonian, Hungarian, Chinese

18 confirmed through this survey, likely 27 (22 in 2012).

Preliminary results!

2. Number of ISO 26000 sold or made available for free

- to date

Sold: Approximately 16000 (12000 by end of 2012)Note: Basically all ISO standards are sold by national standards bodies who sets its own price taking into account a a common ISO pricing policy. Income is used to fund the management of the standard, e.g. translations, meetingsPrice range 30-200 Euros.

Free: 2500 (e.g. for educational, promotional reasons)

Preliminary results!

3. Perceived national interest in ISO 26000

Decreasing: 2 % (3 % in 2012)

Constant: 52 % (57 %)

Increasing: 45 % (40 %)

Preliminary results!

4. Local National Mirror Committees (NMC) within the National Standards

Bodies

• Yes we have an active NMC: approximately 80 % (approximately as in 2012)

• Note: PPO observation is that there are still local challenges in the definitions of stakeholder, stakeholder categories and the allowing of stakeholders to select their own representatives and act independently

Preliminary results!

5. Stakeholders represented in the local National Mirror Committees (NMC)

How many of NMCs have the following stakeholder groups represented among its members:

• Consumers 70 % (2102: 70 %)• Industry 90 % (90 %)• Labor 80 % (66 %)• Government 65 % (87 %)• Non-governmental organisations 85 % (85 %) • Service, support, research, others 85 % (82 %)

Preliminary results!

6. Common themes to the questions receieved by the National Standards

Body.

Under analysis

7. Examples of integration in organisations

Under analysis

8. Most important question/idea/challenge for ISO 26000 at this moment

Under analysis

9. Suggestion ISO/CS or the ISO 26000 Post Publication Organization do to support your activities related to the

implementation of ISO 26000

Under analysis

A few words on the next steps of

the systematic review

Next step, from February 2014

1. PPO leadership will communicate the final results of the PPO survey, together with the results of the ISO systematic review, as soon as possible after March 15

2. The PPO leadership will meet and discuss the results with PPO SAG and where needed call for additional information from PPO NIN

3. The PPO leadership will submit its final recommendations to ISO TMB before their meeting that will take place late Q2 2014. The recommendations will be based on the PPO survey, advice form PPO SAG and PPO NIN, and any other relevant information found.

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