The Global Compact Self Assessment Tool is a free online tool that enables companies to measure their performance on the 10 Global Compact principles, covering human rights, labour, environment and anti-corruption.

This tool unpacks all 10 principles into checklists consisting of concrete questions and indicators. Companies can clearly see where their most important challenges are, and begin to address them. The tool is also intended to help Global Compact companies report on their CSR work through the mandatory Communication on Progress.

‘Using the Global Compact Self Assessment Tool, companies can generate content directly for their Communication on Progress to show what they’re doing well and to demonstrate improvements over time’ said  Allan Lerberg Jørgensen, an advisor at the Danish Institute for Human Rights and one of the developers behind the tool.

The Global Compact Self Assessment Tool has been developed by a partnership consisting of The Danish Ministry of Economic and Business Affairs, The Confederation of Danish Industry, The Danish Industrialisation Fund for Developing Countries, The Danish Institute for Human Rights and the UN Global Compact Secretariat. The tool has been tested by UN Global Compact networks in Bangladesh, Kenya and Vietnam.

The Global Compact Self Assessment Tool is freely available online.