Corporate Accountability  

The primary objective of this project is to develop and launch a united civil society campaign against corporate abuse, in particular against those large multi-national corporations that are responsible for environmental destruction, wide-spread human suffering and pollution-related illnesses.

The focus on Corporate Accountability is something that local South African communities have been calling for, for some time now.  For many years communities in South Africa have been challenging companies that are polluting neighbourhoods. 

groundWork’s theme for the WSSD was Corporate Accountability.  During the week preceeding the WSSD (20 - 23 August) we hosted a Corporate Accountability Week in Sandton.  The theme for the week was: People's Action for Sustainable Development.  The event was co-hosted together with several international NGOs, such as Friends of the Earth, CorpWatch, Corporate Europe Observatory, Third World Network and Greenpeace, as well as local NGOs Earthlife Africa and EMG.  

One of the outcomes of the week was a resolution on corporate accounability which was signed by 65 organisations.  The resolution affirms the signatories commitment to "people-centred development which is equitable and sustainable and which secures social and environmental justice for allly. 

In January 2003 the WEF gathering in Davos, was upstaged by the parallel  NGO gathering entitled  "The Public Eye on Davos" as well as by the World Social Forum in Porto Alegre 

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