Here is a template of the CoP questionnaire. All UN Global Compact business participants are required to manually complete the digital version, accessible through their UN Global Compact Participant Dashboard. The CoP questionnaire focuses on five disclosure areas (governance, human rights, labour, environment and anti-corruption) and is designed to help participating companies monitor performance across the Ten Principles. There will be no scoring or ranking associated with the CoP questionnaire. Rather, the objective is to create transparency and enable progress.

The 2025 Communication on Progress (CoP) Questionnaire Guidebook is designed to assist UN Global Compact business participants in completing the 2025 CoP Questionnaire. This guidebook offers insights into the CoP and the interoperability of the corporate reporting landscape. Most importantly, it provides detailed explanations and justifications for each question in the CoP

The official CEO Statement of Continued Support template for the 2025 CoP Reporting period. The CEO Statement of Continued Support serves as a public declaration of UN Global Compact participants' ongoing commitment to the Ten Principles of the UN Global Compact at the highest level.

Communication on Progress Amendment Policy

The official policy for the 2025 CoP, detailing requirements, processes, and timelines for submissions in 2025.  

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Here is a template of the Forward Faster questionnaire. The Forward Faster initiative aims to increase accountability and transparency by calling for companies to publicly declare their commitments on the Sustainable Development Goals and highlight the actions they will undertake to meet the targets. Companies committing to the targets are required to report on progress annually to the UN Global Compact. All Forward Faster companies are required to manually complete the digital version of this questionnaire, accessible through their UN Global Compact Participant Dashboard. There will be no scoring or ranking associated with the Forward Faster questionnaire. Rather, the objective is to create transparency and enable progress.

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2025 marks both the 25th anniversary of the UN Global Compact and the 30th anniversary of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action. In this year’s International Women’s Month, the United Nations Global Compact Liaison Office in China host the China-Japan-Korea Business Roundtable: Business role in building family-friendly workplace and inclusive culture for male allyship and launched the report, Parents at Work: Companies Building Family-friendly Workplaces and Inclusive Culture with Male Allyship in Beijing.  China, Japan, and Korea, as the three largest economies in East Asia, share new demographic trends and the challenge of gender equality, which have far-reaching implications for economic development, talent management and sustainable development across the region. Regional dialogue and collective action are essential in responding to such new situations. In response, the UN Global Compact Liaison Office in China is coordinating across businesses East Asia, collaborating with Country Network Japan, and Korea to jointly publish this guide to promote family-friendly workplaces, sharing good practices and innovative solutions for business sustainability transformation while encouraging more enterprises to take pragmatic collective action toward achieving the 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda. Following the 2024 publication of Women at Work: Chinese Companies Taking Actions on Gender Equality, this report serves as another thought-leading knowledge product in the same series to promote gender equality, focusing on “parents at work”. The report includes: An analysis of progress made by companies in China, Japan, Korea, and the broader Asia and Oceania region in fostering family-friendly workplaces and supporting male allyship, based on quantitative analysis tools and the latest data insights.  Case studies and specific initiatives from businesses of different industries and scales in China, Japan, and Korea that support working parents, implement family-friendly policies, and promote an inclusive corporate culture, providing replicable and scalable solutions to global business.  A seven-step action guide based on the Women's Empowerment Principles (WEPs) for businesses to build family-friendly workplaces and inclusive culture, helping businesses to take systematic actions from the three directions of leadership and accountability, management systems to support working parents, as well as collaboration in supply chain, market and community engagement. The action guide also provides tailored advice for companies at different stages of development. 

A collection of common questions and answers designed to provide UN Global Compact participants with better understanding on how to complete the mandatory 2025 Communication on Progress.

A collection of common questions and answers designed to provide UN Global Compact participants with better understanding on how to complete the 2025 Communication on Progress Questionnaire.

The integrity measures are in place to protect the integrity of the initiative and the UN from key risks associated with the potential for misrepresentation. These integrity measures are aimed at promoting greater public accountability and transparency of participants for their corporate sustainability performance and are comprised of our reporting policies, logo policy and dialogue facilitation process. Implementation of the integrity measures is overseen by the UN Global Compact Board.