about the platform
A Gateway to Sustainable Finance for Emerging Markets
A Gateway to Sustainable Finance for Emerging Markets
The Beyond the Balance Sheet Platform goes beyond the disclosure of an annual report.
As the name suggests, the Beyond the Balance Sheet Platform goes beyond the disclosure of an annual report. It helps businesses and companies build a transparent culture necessary to remain relevant in a fast-changing world.
And there is more: the Platform promotes more responsible investments in emerging markets. It helps investors and other stakeholders understand and trust ESG disclosures and reports.
In short, the Platform is designed to guide emerging-market companies, stock exchanges, and regulators as they go on their journey to integrate ESG in corporate reporting, communications, and disclosure practices.
The Platform helps companies and stock exchanges understand what to do to improve disclosure and transparency practices—and how to do it.
The Platform works with emerging market companies to enhance sustainable practices and attract customers, employees, and investors by improving insight into their businesses practices—thus, matching sustainable companies with responsible stakeholders.
In particular, the Platform helps companies and stock exchanges understand what to do to improve disclosure and transparency practices—and how to do it. It provides companies with the opportunity to explore the best practices and learn from regional and industry examples, and more. The Platform also offers step-by-step guidance on how to create, assess, and improve a report that goes beyond the balance sheet and opportunity to exchange ideas and disclose information.
Useful disclosure to maximize the impact of the company's investment in reporting
IFC's model annual report provides a useful guide for reporting companies. This guide helps a company produce complete, useful disclosure to maximize the impact of the company's investment in reporting. The model annual report can be used as a template to build and assess a report, or a starting point to begin building content.
Learn to apply disclosure concepts to your business
The e-learning modules help companies apply disclosure concepts to their business and think about which best practice reporting examples are relevant for their disclosure needs and challenges.
Focus on private sector investments in emerging markets, including public capital markets, private equity and debt, and banking intermediation
The Platform targets major stakeholders in the investment value chain, including companies, market intermediaries, investors, and regulators. It also focuses on different private sector investments in emerging markets, including public capital markets, private equity and debt, and banking intermediation. The ecosystem supports the following:
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