Trialogue
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Trialogue is a black-empowered consulting and publishing organisation specialising in corporate social investment (CSI) and sustainable business development.

These include diagnostic, planning, implementation, reporting and review support to help corporate clients improve their sustainability and CSI practices. Our corporate consulting services give companies the strategic support necessary to conduct business with a positive impact. Our offerings are tailored to clients’ unique experience, needs and budgets. They support sustainability and CSI initiatives at all stages from strategy formulation and implementation to project reviews and reporting. We produce integrated, sustainability and CSI reports for companies, providing a full reporting service, from structuring, information gathering and writing to design, print and delivery. Trialogue supports its clients in making their sustainability and CSI practices more effective through its end-to-end consulting process, which covers strategy development and implementation, stakeholder engagement, management and measurements systems, benchmarking and evaluation. Trialogue encourages its clients to undergo an initial diagnostic exercise at the outset of most consulting engagements, ensuring that all parties embark on the undertaking from an informed and pragmatic perspective. While tailored to clients’ specific needs, this can include gap analyses, stakeholder engagement, desktop or primary research, benchmarking exercises and positioning of existing projects and programmes on Trialogue’s proprietary CSI and ESG matrices. Trialogue helps its clients to develop sustainability and CSI strategies and policies. We also support the development of roadmaps and action plans outlining the accountable individuals, specific activities, timelines and success measures. Trialogue supports its clients in this critical stage by developing and actioning the necessary tools (including sustainability and monitoring and evaluation frameworks) and providing project management support as required. We can help to ensure clients’ CSI and sustainability visions become reality. Trialogue can help companies to devise and implement templates and processes for ongoing reporting. This includes determining relevant indicators as well as the appropriate frequency and accountability for reporting. Trialogue recommends reviewing the functioning and results of interventions on an ongoing basis in order to determine if they are having the expected impact. We perform project reviews through a range of methods including site visits, interviews and beneficiary surveys depending on client need and budget. Understanding and communicating Alexander Forbes’ material issues. We produce integrated and sustainability reports, as well as social reports, for companies and are capable of managing the entire reporting process. Our support spans initial consultations providing intellectual input to the structure and content, through to generating content, editing copy, and managing report design and production. Sustainability reporting provides a platform for companies to communicate their approach to ESG issues in greater detail to a more targeted audience of interested stakeholders. These reports are popular among unlisted companies not bound by the integrated reporting requirements of their listed peers and companies seeking to provide more targeted, detailed information to specific stakeholder groups. Some companies find sustainability reporting to be a helpful early step in the journey towards integrated reporting. Many companies investing in socio-economic development hope to capture the reputational benefit by communicating these activities. Trialogue helps clients to compile and produce social reports that highlight their CSI undertakings and provide commentary on the notable successes and challenges experienced during the year.