Sustainability Report

The GRI Sustainability Reporting Guidelines are periodically reviewed to provide the best and
most up-to-date guidance for effective sustainability reporting. Currently emphasis on G4.

IDLC since 2011, has been publishing the Annual Sustainability Report in compliance with the
Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) framework. 2017 sustainability report of IDLC was prepared in
accordance with sustainability reporting guidelines G4 issued by GRI which reflect IDLC’s
contribution towards creating economic, social and environmental value.

G4 has an increased emphasis on the need for organizations to focus the reporting process and
final report on those topics that are material to their business and their key stakeholders.

Two different parts of reporting:

General Standard Disclosures and Specific Standard Disclosures.

GENERAL STANDARD DISCLOSURES

 Strategy and Analysis

 Organizational Profile
 Identified Material Aspects and Boundaries
 Stakeholder Engagement
 Report Profile
 Governance
 Ethics and Integrity

SPECIFIC STANDARD DISCLOSURES

 Disclosures on Management Approach

 Indicators

Specific Standard Disclosures into three Categories –

 Economic
 Environmental
 Social:
The Social Category is further divided into four sub-Categories, which are:
 Labor Practices and Decent Work
 Human Rights
 Society
 Product Responsibility.
Some Indicators are also linked with other reporting bodies of

 OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises

 UN Global Compact ‘Ten Principles’

GRI Reporting guideline Link: https://www2.globalreporting.org/resourcelibrary/GRIG4-Part1-

Reporting-Principles-and-Standard-Disclosures.pdf

Principles for reporting

The Principles are divided into two groups:

 Principles for Defining Report Content

 Principles for Defining Report Quality

Principles for Report CONTENT

 Stakeholder Inclusiveness Principle: The organization should identify its stakeholders,

and explain how it has responded to their reasonable expectations and interests.
 Sustainability Context Principle: The report should present the organization’s
performance in the wider context of sustainability.
 Materiality Principle: The report should cover Aspects that: Ÿ Reflect the organization’s
significant economic, environmental and social impacts; or Ÿ Substantively influence the
assessments and decisions of stakeholders
 Completeness Principle: The report should include coverage of material Aspects and
their Boundaries, sufficient to reflect significant economic, environmental and social
impacts, and to enable stakeholders to assess the organization’s performance in the
reporting period.

Principles for REPORT QUALITY

 Balance Principle: The report should reflect positive and negative aspects of the
organization’s performance to enable a reasoned assessment of overall performance.
 Comparability Principle: The organization should select, compile and report information
consistently. The reported information should be presented in a manner that enables
stakeholders to analyze changes in the organization’s performance over time, and that
could support analysis relative to other organizations.
 Accuracy Principle: The reported information should be sufficiently accurate and
detailed for stakeholders to assess the organization’s performance.
 Timeliness Principle: The organization should report on a regular schedule so that
information is available in time for stakeholders to make informed decisions.
 Clarity Principle: The organization should make information available in a manner that is
understandable and accessible to stakeholders using the report.
 Reliability Principle: The organization should gather, record, compile, analyze and
disclose information and processes used in the preparation of a report in a way that they
can be subject to examination and that establishes the quality and materiality of the
information
G4 is designed to be universally applicable to all organizations, large and small, across the world.
The features of G4 – to make the Guidelines easier to use.

GRI sustainability report guideline

https://www.globalreporting.org/resourcelibrary/grig4-part1-reporting-principles-and-
standard-disclosures.pdf
The report is prepared in accordance with sustainability reporting guidelines G4 issued by GRI
which reflect IDLC’s contribution towards creating economic, social and environmental value. In
accordance with the G4 stakeholder engagement section, we have collected information from
several sources, both financial and non-financial.

The IDLC team has tried to identify sustainable business objectives by understanding
stakeholder expectations which are correlated. This is to ensure that IDLC can meet the
objectives, modify existing practices and, if required, embrace corrective measures through the
IDLC business model, annually. Although the concept of CSR is slowly gaining ground, practicing
it to the full extent still remains a challenge for many companies and organisations. Enhanced
awareness and communication on the sustainability and strategic aspects of CSR needs to be
imparted to stakeholders, which will accordingly shape their expectations in terms of the
organisation’s CSR performance.

In consideration of the above, IDLC has engaged with regulators, management and employees
to identify their preferences, concerns and expectations from IDLC.