Hi and welcome to the Business Ranking Blog,

Here you can find recent information about the development of the AIDS Accountability Business Ranking and related initiatives. The blog will be updated frequently so be sure check back every now and then!

The aim of the AIDS Accountability Business Ranking is to create a mechanism that will reintroduce the notion of Company Best Practice and Corporate Citizenship in HIV/AIDS. Once the ranking is developed and piloted, it is expected that a company ranking will be publicly issued annually, and that this issuance will reward leading companies that are coming through on their promises, and incentivize laggards to improve upon their ranking and take action on their promises.

The ranking is developed with the active cooperation and involvement of relevant businesses. In order for the tool to be widely used, recognized, and credible, it must be of value to businesses. Key stakeholders that will benefit from the rating tool, such as investors, employees, civil society and faith based organizations, governments, health sector professionals, academics, and others.

In Sep/Oct 2009 AAI is establishing a Development Team to assist us in developing and piloting a ranking methodology. We are very proud to present the following members: Ramnik Ahuja, Confederation of Indian Industry; Pamela Bolton, Global Business Coalition on HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria; Charles Dalton, Consequent; Gavin George, HEARD University of KwaZulu-Natal; Ludvig Hubendick, Swedish Workplace HIV/Aids Programme; Brad Mears, South African Business Coalition on HIV/AIDS; Susana Frazao Pinheiro, Catholic University, MIT Legatum Center for Entrepreneurship and Development & Local InSight.

Get Involved!
Would you wish to join the expert dialogues during the ranking development phase? Fund or support the development of the ranking? Pilot-test the ranking?
Contact us at:johanna@aidsaccountability.org

by: Johanna Löfgren, Project Coordinator, AIDS Accountability Business Ranking