Project Reports

A Brief Report on the Status of GANs. (2006)
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By: Steve Waddell

Connecting the Global and Local: An Action Research Project with the Global Reporting Initiative. (2004)
A presentation given at the June 2003 meeting of the International Association of Business and Society
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By: Steve Waddell

This describes the process of establishing a methodology for GRI to develop activity in South Africa.

Dialogic Approaches to Global Challenges: Moving from 'Dialogue Fatigue' to Dialogic Change Processes: A Working Paper (2005)
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By Bettye Pruitt and Steve Waddell. In collaboration with Katrin Kaeufer and Kate Parrot

This paper looks at how to achieve global change in response to pernicious issues. It asks:

What are the structures and strategies that have emerged as alternatives to the established system of international negotiation to address global challenges?
What role does dialogue play in their activities?
How is third order (deep) change being achieved?

The paper is part of a multi-year initiative called The Generative Dialogue Project.

Global Action Networks and the Evolution of Global Public Policy Systems. (2004)
Presented at the 2004 International Conference on Systems Thinking in Management.
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By: Steve Waddell and Verna Allee

In the midst of boisterous protests about the negative impacts of economic globalization, more complex multi-stakeholder approaches to global public policy have arisen. This paper looks at a particular multi-stakeholder approach, Global Action Networks (GANs), as complex systems in terms of "effectiveness" challenges.

Global Domain Preliminary Analyses (2003)

Preliminary reports and maps are available for four global problem/opportunity domains. See: climate change, food security, sustainable development, and trade.

Global Public Policy Networks: Contested spaces where the human spirit can triumph. (2002)
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This is the draft report of a year of investigation into GANs. It focused upon the concept of effectiveness and GRIs, based upon analysis of the Global Reporting Initiative, the International Federation of Alternative Trade, the International Center for Trade and Sustainable Development.

GRI Local Network Development Methodology (2003)
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Most GANs aim to have regional or national sub-networks. A draft methodology for developing such a network for GRI was developed based upon organizing a South African network. This methodology will be further developed through application at a second GRI site later in 2003.

Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) Network Development: South Africa. (2003)
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By Steve Waddell and Verna Allee.

GRI (www.globalreporting.org) is a global business-civil society-intermediary organization network that is developing a generally accepted framework for sustainability reporting. This report analyzes South Africa in relationship to GRI issues and current networks to define a GRI development strategy.

Report of the January 2004 meeting of NGOs on Corporate Engagement. (2004)
This is the project meeting report. Download [144 KB PDF]

Scaling Up and Governance: A Report for The Access Initiative (TAI) and The Partnership for Principle 10 (PP10) (2005)

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By: Steve Waddell

This is a report for TAI and PP10 that provides guidance for their future growth and governance issues.

The Access Initiative January 2003: A Report on Development Issues at Two Years of Age. (2003)
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By Steve Waddell.

The Access Initiative (TAI: www.accessinitiative.org) is a global coalition of public interest groups collaborating to promote national-level implementation of commitments to access to information, participation, and justice in environmental decision-making. This is the fourth in a series of reports that has followed TAI's development to provide TAI with development advice and develop knowledge with respect to five key challenges that GANs face.