Graham A Brown & Associates are experienced social auditors. Social information may be collected through a mix of research methods that include social bookkeeping, surveys, interviews, stakeholder liaison and case studies, for the preparation of Social Impact Assessments (SIA) or Social Audits.
We assist organisations to set objectives from which indicators of impact are determined, stakeholders identified and research tools designed in detail. We assist in the development of action plans and recording and accounting procedures and specialise in "mentoring" organisations through their ongoing social impact assessment and auditing processes.
Through an integrated approach to social and environmental auditing our team of specialist consultants can assist an organisation assess and demonstrate its social, economic and environmental benefits and limitations. In this way, the organisation is better able to measure the extent to which it lives up to the shared values and objectives to which it has committed itself.
Social auditing requires the involvement of stakeholders. This may include employees, clients, volunteers, funders, contractors, suppliers and local communities interested in the organisation. Graham A Brown & Associates are skilled at community consultation and stakeholder liaison. Our team establishes consultation strategies to determine the opinions, attitudes and values of stakeholders and ensure that these are clearly articulated to the organisation, so that strategies and action plans may be established to address them.
Our team of consultants works with an organisation to ensure that the social audit fits within the organisaton's reporting framework by providing clear and succinct information on performance against agreed auditing criteria and social objectives. In this way, the social audit results can be fed into the organisation's strategic review and planning processes to improve overall performance and social impact, and provide valuable third-party assessmetn of social performance or community development for internal, corporate, government and sustainability reporting.
