The GIF Framework is not limited to defining minimum requirements of a management system but constitutes a managerial model strongly oriented toward excellence in results on all sustainability aspects and risks.

The GIF Framework consists of 3 interdependent elements:

Principles

Criteria

Metric

The GIF Framework supports the company for different purposes

The GIF Framework helps the company to identify strengths and areas for improvement and to integrate social, environmental and ethical plans with economic and business objectives, and makes it possible to:

verify the level of effectiveness of the processes

verify the integration between processes

understand the relationships between processes and results

identify and analyze ESG risks

compare the results with the objectives and with best practices

Organisations use the GIF Framework to:

Spread the culture of improving results on all ESG aspects

Integrate all ESG aspects into a single managerial system

Align processes with the expectations of stakeholders

Define mitigation and remediation plans for ESG risks

Define sustainability improvement plans

Prepare the sustainability report

Compare strategic options in the face of context change

The distinctive element of the GIF Framework consists of the score-oriented metric [not compliance] that allows the company to:

Measure the level of results achieved with respect to your objectives

Compare the level of your results over time

Compare results with those of other organizations [benchmarking]

Measure the level of exposure to supplier ESG risks

Get a predictive ESG rating from a third party