Licensed country rating partners
To supplement the annual application of the Accountability Rating to the world’s largest 100 companies, every year the Rating methodology is also applied to the largest companies in selected countries. The results are published in the form of country rankings produced by Accountability Rating partners under licence.
Braun & Partners, Bulgaria and Hungary
Braun & Partners Network is a leading CSR strategy consultancy in Central and Eastern Europe. The Network, consisting of four companies (B&P CSR management, B&P Social Branding, B&P Social Capital, Braun & Partners Bulgaria), provides solutions for companies and non-governmental organisations to integrate CSR in their strategies, governance, stakeholder engagement practices, branding processes and daily business routine.
Contact: Gyöngyi Simon – simon.gyongyi@braunpartners.hu
Braun & Partners Bulgaria aims to assist companies to adapt international best practices in Bulgaria.
Contact: Rita Lukács – bulgaria@braunpartners.hu
The Institute of Social Innovation, Greece
The Institute of Social Innovation is an Athens-based consultancy specialising in employment, social protection and sustainable development. The Institute aims to identify contemporary problems or risks and to define, from a social perspective, solutions that are relevant and sustainable in the long term. Its services include policy advice, strategic planning, project management and carrying out of research on social policy issues.

Contact: Dimitris Micharikopoulos - dimitris@isi.org.gr
SCS Consulting, Italy
SCS Consulting, AccountAbility Italian partner, is a leading consultancy working to promote entrepreneurship and innovative strategies for sustained value creation in Italy. It has partnered with companies recognized to be innovative and proactive in sustainability strategies. SCS has developed experience in stakeholder engagement, CSR training, sustainability reports and codes of ethics. SCS belongs to the most important national and international networks such as CSR Manager Network Italy and CSR Europe (through Impronta Etica). It also works closely with ECR (Efficient Consumer
Response) and Popai Italy for all sustainability issues in the FMCG industry and with ABI (Italian Bank Association) to advance the corporate responsibility agenda in the banking sector in Italy. SCS, in partnership with “il Sole 24 ore”, will launch the Accountability Rating Italy 2008 on 2 December in Milan.
Contact: Giulia Cosulich - G.Cosulich@scsconsulting.it
Sair da Casca, Portugal
Founded in 1994, SDC is the leading Portuguese sustainable development consultancy. SDC’s team is an alliance of sustainability and communication professionals with over ten years of experience in world-leading companies operating in areas related to sustainable development. SDC’s mission is to place sustainability at the centre of organizations’ strategies.
Contact: Rui Loureiro - rui.loureiro@sairdacasca.com
Delovaya Kultura International Projects Bureau (DK IPB), Russia
Delovaya Kultura International Projects Bureau (DK IPB) is an independent consultancy specialising in corporate social affairs and communication. Its mission is to help Russian businesses implement internationally accepted standards of corporate social behaviour in order to improve their performance and add to their social contribution.
Contact: Natalia Khonyakova – nk@me-business.com
BISD, South Korea
BISD (Business Institute for Sustainable Development) plays a leading role in overcoming environmental problems and carrying out sustainable development through cooperative partnerships with various interested parties, as well as contributing to the establishment of sustainability management. Its mission is to be a representative institution leading globalisation of sustainability management in the industrial world. BISD leads the development of the South Korean Accountability Rating.

Contact: Ms Lim – lizzy@korcham.net
Sd3 Asia, South Korea
Sd3 are specialist business sustainability advisors, helping organisations create value by adopting responsible business practices that integrate economic, environmental and social performance and contribute to sustainable development. Sd3 offers clients full business sustainability services: strategy and management systems, assessment, reporting and communications, training, engagement, reassurance and climate energy services. Sd3 works with private and public clients across the globe including InBev, InterContinental Hotels Group, Rio Tinto, West Sussex County Council, BSI, Samsung SDI, Samsung Electro-Mechanics, LG Electronics and Hyundai Motor Company. SD3 Asia acts as a technical partner on the South Korean Accountability Rating.

Contact: MinGu Jun – MinGu.Jun@sd3-global.com
The CSR Institute, Turkey
The CSR Institute was founded in 2006 under the sponsorship of the Turkish CSR Consultancy SU CSR. Its mission is to advance best practice in measuring, evaluating and training on issues of corporate responsibility. In 2008, the CSR Institute took over the Accountability Rating from SuCSR, and gave awards to the 15 most successful companies in Turkey.

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