BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:unctad.org BEGIN:VEVENT UID:6ad7dce32e815 DTSTART:20221031T140000Z SEQUENCE:0 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTEND:20221031T170000Z LOCATION:Geneva\, Switzerland SUMMARY:ISAR Annual accounting workshop CLASS:PUBLIC DESCRIPTION:Regional partnerships as a blueprint for maximising impact on s trengthening national sustainability reporting practice and infrastructure \n\n \n\nThe objective of the workshop is to share the experience of the African and Latin American Partnerships for the promotion of sustainabilit y reporting with a view to identify best practices and lessons learned in building Partnerships and maximizing the benefits of its members.\n\nThe 1 1th Tranche Development Account Project implemented by UNCTAD from 2018 to 2022 aimed at enabling policy frameworks for enterprise sustainability an d SDG reporting in Africa and Latin America as well as at strengthening th e capacities of Governments to measure and monitor the private sector cont ribution to the SDGs. In particular\, the Project also envisaged regional collaboration and experience sharing of lessons learned and best practices from beneficiary countries through the organization of regional workshops and the establishment of two regional partnerships\, in Latin America and Africa. The partnerships have been developed to guarantee long-lasting su pport to African and Latin American countries beyond the project’s compl etion\, to provide a communication channel among peers for sharing experie nce and good practices and to enable countries to learn from each other. T he partnerships also intend to support members in their efforts to develop national strategies and policies for establishing or strengthening nation al infrastructure for high-quality sustainability reporting and enabling t he measurement of the private sector contribution to the SDGs.\n\nThe Part nerships brought together main stakeholders in the field of sustainability reporting in the region\, including government entities\, regulators\, na tional financial reporting standard setters\, professional accounting and auditing organizations\, stock exchanges and academia. They provided count ries a means to share tools\, experience\, and best practices\, as well as to discuss the latest trends and knowledge on sustainability reporting\, facilitating consistency and harmonization throughout the regions.\n\nSinc e their launch\, the partnerships have continued to grow and gathered 50 m embers and 6 observers from 25 countries in Africa and 28 members and 3 ob servers from 14 countries in Latin America. In the case of the Latin Ameri can Partnership\, Mexico is the first Chair represented by the Mexican Cou ncil for Financial Reporting Standards (CINIF) with the support of the Nat ional Banking and Securities Commission of Mexico (CNBV)\, and the Mexican Institute of Public Accountants (IMCP). The African Partnership is chaire d by the Ministry of Finance of Cameroon\, while the Department of Trade\, Industry and Competition (DTIC) of South Africa as well as the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Kenya (ICPAK) were elected as Vice-Chairs. \n \nTo foster the dialogue among countries\, the partnerships hold 3 annual meetings. These meetings are organized in the format of capacity building activities and virtual panel discussions. The regional groups\, with the s upport of UNCTAD\, implemented electronic platforms to serve as a compleme ntary space for the exchange of useful resources and materials related to sustainability reporting\, with a forum that fosters dialogue and best pra ctice sharing among Partnerships members.\n\nThe experience of the Latin A merican and African partnerships is a result of cooperation among multi-le vel stakeholders that can be scaled up and replicated in other regions to advance sustainability reporting practices. In this regard\, the workshop will promote the exchange of partnership experience on how to establish ef ficient cooperation platforms to maximize the impact of the member states ’ collective effort towards strengthening sustainability reporting pract ices and infrastructure at the national level. \n    \n \n<\;h3 cla ss="\;text-align-center\n\nView meeting on unctad.org\nhttps://unctad. org/meeting/isar-annual-accounting-workshop DTSTAMP:20261020T212803Z END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR