GPM writes standards that ask project organizations to measure their impacts, set thresholds in advance and report what happened. The organization holds itself to the same discipline. Each year GPM reports its own operations against the GRI Standards and the Ten Principles of the UN Global Compact, and publishes the results where anyone can read them.

What the reports cover

The GRI report covers all GPM operations worldwide, with no entities excluded, and documents governance, workforce, supply chain, environment and anti-corruption performance, cross-referenced to the Communication on Progress. Its alignment runs to the GRI Standards, the UNGC Ten Principles, the SDGs, TNFD, SBTi and IFRS S2. Carbon impact data disclosed in GPM’s Net Positive reporting were assured by an independent third party; all other figures were verified internally by the Governance Committee and are marked as such.

Among the results: more than half of leadership roles are held by women; 100 percent of suppliers affirm the Human Rights and Anti-Trafficking Policy and 100 percent of the workforce completed human rights training; no cases of forced, bonded or child labor and no human rights grievances were recorded. Where work is incomplete, the reports say so. Biodiversity regeneration indicators and Impact-per-Project reporting remain in development, with publication scheduled for 2027.

Why it matters

GPM has participated in the UN Global Compact for more than a decade and was the first project management organization to join. The Communication on Progress opens with a Statement of Continued Support from Dr. Joel Carboni, GPM’s founder and president, that explains the logic behind both documents: “A commitment without a named authority, a threshold defined in advance, and a consequence for crossing it is a preference.” Every policy referenced in the reports is approved by the Board, implemented by a named executive function and measured against criteria set before the reporting period began.

That is the same architecture the P5 Standard and the Practice Guide ask of projects: impacts identified, thresholds agreed, owners named, results verified. Publishing the reports is how GPM shows that the method works at home.