ISEAL

As of October 4th 2018 Global Infrastructure Basel Foundation (GIB) with SuRe® – the Standard for Sustainable and Resilient Infrastructure, has become the first infrastructure standard to be an associate member of ISEAL, the global association in defining and communicating what good practice looks like for sustainability standards.

To be eligible of joining the ISEAL members community, SuRe® had first to demonstrate its multi-stakeholder basis. During the development phase GIB conducted a stakeholder mapping in order to identify the main stakeholder groups for which the SuRe® Standard’s mandate is relevant, which are project developers, infrastructure financiers and public sector institutions. Representatives of the three main stakeholder groups, proportionally distributed in different continents, have joined the two governance bodies of the SuRe® Standard, i.e. the Standard Committee and the Stakeholder Council, where their inputs, comments and engagement are collected and taken into full consideration. Additionally, two public consultations about the SuRe® Standard were conducted, which received more than 200 comments from more than 10 different countries.

To become an associate member of ISEAL, SuRe® also went through an Independent Evaluation Procedure in order to demonstrate how the Standard’s procedures meet the baseline criteria for the three ISEAL Codes of Good Practice for Standard Setting, Assurance and Impacts. In complying to the baseline criteria, SuRe® demonstrates that GIB shares and contributes to the main ISEAL goals of improving the effectiveness and impacts of sustainability standards systems, and thus increasing their adoption at a global level.

With SuRe® GIB joins 24 other standard member organizations of ISEAL, such as e.g. the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC), Fairtrade International (FLO) and Assurance Services International (ASI).

As Associate Member SuRe® is on its way to continue the path towards full ISEAL membership by continuing the development of the SuRe® system through the Initial Implementation Phase of the Standard, running through 2018 – 2019. During this phase and beyond, SuRe® shall be applied to infrastructure projects in order to assess their compliance with the Standard.

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