The GIF Framework goes beyond defining the minimum requirements of a management system and represents a managerial model strongly focused on achieving excellence across 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 organisations identify strengths and areas for improvement, and integrate social, environmental and ethical plans with economic and business objectives.

It also enables organisations to:

assess the effectiveness and ESG issues of processes

evaluate the level of integration across processes

understand the relationship between processes and outcomes

identify and analyze ESG risks

benchmark results against objectives and recognised best practices

Organisations use the GIF Framework to:

foster a culture of continuous performance improvement across all ESG dimensions

integrate all ESG aspects into a single, coherent management system

align internal processes and material topics with stakeholder expectations

define ESG risk mitigation and remediation plans

develop sustainability improvement plans

prepare the sustainability report

assess and compare strategic options in response to changing contexts

The distinctive feature of the GIF Framework is its score-oriented (rather than compliance-based) metric, which enables organisations to:

measure performance against their objectives

track performance over time

benchmark results against those of other organisations

assess suppliers' exposure to ESG risks

obtain a predictive ESG rating from an independent third party