Management response independent evaluation - World Benchmarking Alliance 2023

The evaluation report provides an understanding of the extent to which methodologies, insights and benchmarks and results are used to hold companies accountable and how benchmarks and stakeholder actions based on WBA benchmark results lead to changes in company behaviour and the added value of the Alliance. [...] This signals that WBA can do more to add value to the work of civil society organisations and more broadly, we realise that we need to move to the next phase for the Alliance, focusing on impact of the Alliance rather than growing the Alliance. [...] Whereas we directed our focus to growing the movement and action as one Alliance in the first years of our existence, we have experienced that the exponential growth in the number of Allies requires us to explore different ways to work together to add value for different types of Allies and intensify our collaboration with those who have the capacity and willingness to put our research’ findings i. [...] Update our Theory of Change to reflect the focus on corporate accountability and impact pathways WBA acknowledges the need to update our Theory of Change to better reflect the different pathways of impact and our focus on closing the corporate accountability gap that exists in the context of sustainable development. [...] Deepen the way we work with our Allies and policymakers to make benchmarks consequential for companies In addition, we acknowledge the fact that the Alliance needs to work much more as a community, or a set of communities, in order to really unleash the potential and power of the Alliance, particularly for NGOs and civil society organisations.