Preparation of Environmental, Social & Governance Reports

5-Day Professional Training Course | PESGR5001

KSA · GCC · Africa

Course Overview

This intensive 5-day training programme equips sustainability professionals, corporate affairs managers, investor relations officers, and organisational leaders with the international reporting frameworks, data collection methodologies, materiality assessment competencies, and stakeholder communication disciplines needed to prepare credible, comprehensive, and decision-useful Environmental, Social, and Governance reports that satisfy the expectations of investors, regulators, customers, and communities across an era where ESG disclosure has shifted from voluntary corporate responsibility communication to mandatory regulatory obligation and primary investment decision input. ESG reporting is no longer the exclusive domain of large listed corporations with dedicated sustainability teams — it is a capability requirement cascading rapidly through supply chains, financial systems, and regulatory environments to reach every organisation that seeks capital, government contracts, international partnerships, or public legitimacy. Across Saudi Arabia where the Capital Market Authority has mandated ESG disclosure for listed companies and where Saudi Aramco's ESG reporting sets the regional benchmark for energy sector sustainability communication, GCC stock exchanges including Tadawul, ADX, DFM, and Boursa Kuwait that have introduced ESG disclosure requirements aligned with international standards, and African capital markets and development finance institutions where ESG reporting quality is increasingly determining access to the international investment that African organisations need to fund their growth ambitions — the professionals who can prepare rigorous, internationally credible ESG reports are among the most strategically valuable specialists any organisation can develop. Aligned with the GRI Standards, SASB Standards, TCFD recommendations, ISSB IFRS Sustainability Disclosure Standards S1 and S2, and the UN SDG reporting framework, this programme delivers the comprehensive ESG reporting competency that the sustainability profession demands.

Keywords: ESG Reporting Training Saudi Arabia | Sustainability Report Course GCC | GRI SASB TCFD Africa | ESG Disclosure Training Riyadh · Dubai · Nairobi · Cairo

Course Information

Target Audience

• Sustainability managers and ESG officers leading organisational reporting programmes

• Corporate affairs and investor relations professionals managing ESG stakeholder communication

• Risk managers integrating ESG risk into enterprise risk frameworks

• Finance and accounting professionals implementing ISSB sustainability financial disclosures

• Board members and senior executives with ESG governance and oversight responsibilities

• Government sustainability officers in KSA and GCC national sustainability programmes

• Development finance and impact investment professionals across African capital markets

• Consultants and advisors supporting ESG reporting implementation across regional organisations

Learning Outcomes

Upon successful completion, participants will be able to:

• Conduct a double materiality assessment identifying the ESG topics most significant to organisational stakeholders and financial performance

• Apply GRI Standards, SASB Standards, TCFD recommendations, and ISSB IFRS S1 and S2 to prepare internationally credible ESG disclosures

• Design and implement ESG data collection systems covering environmental, social, and governance metrics across organisational operations and supply chains

• Prepare a complete ESG report meeting the disclosure expectations of investors, regulators, and rating agencies operating across KSA, GCC, and African markets

• Communicate ESG performance through integrated reports, investor presentations, and digital sustainability communications with credibility and strategic clarity

• Navigate the specific ESG regulatory requirements, stock exchange disclosure mandates, and sustainability expectations of KSA, GCC, and African regulatory environments

Learning Methods

5-Day Programme Outline

Day 1 — ESG Foundations, the Reporting Landscape & Regulatory Framework

1. ESG defined: environmental, social, and governance dimensions — the issues, the stakeholders, and the organisational performance dimensions that ESG reporting is designed to make transparent

2. The ESG reporting landscape: the proliferation of frameworks, the consolidation toward ISSB, and the current state of ESG disclosure requirements facing organisations across different sectors, sizes, and jurisdictions

3. GRI Standards overview: the universal standards, topic standards, and the GRI reporting framework that remains the most widely adopted ESG disclosure standard globally — structure, in accordance options, and sector standards

4. ISSB IFRS Sustainability Disclosure Standards: S1 general sustainability-related financial disclosures and S2 climate-related disclosures — the investor-focused standards rapidly becoming the mandatory baseline across capital markets including GCC stock exchanges

5. ESG regulatory requirements across KSA, GCC, and Africa: Saudi CMA ESG disclosure requirements for Tadawul-listed companies, Abu Dhabi and Dubai exchange ESG guidelines, Nairobi Securities Exchange sustainability reporting guidelines, and the African Development Bank ESG expectations for project financing

6. Workshop: Participants map the ESG reporting obligations applicable to their own organisation — identifying the mandatory requirements, voluntary framework commitments, and stakeholder expectations that will define their reporting programme scope

Day 2 — Materiality Assessment & ESG Strategy Alignment

1. Materiality in ESG reporting: financial materiality vs. impact materiality vs. double materiality — understanding the different materiality concepts and how each framework applies them to determine reporting scope

2. Double materiality assessment methodology: identifying ESG topics, assessing impact significance across the value chain, assessing financial significance for the organisation, and producing the materiality matrix that anchors the ESG report

3. Stakeholder identification and engagement for materiality: mapping stakeholder groups, designing engagement processes, collecting stakeholder input on ESG priorities, and incorporating stakeholder perspectives into materiality conclusions

4. ESG strategy and reporting alignment: connecting ESG materiality findings to organisational strategy, sustainability targets, and the management approach disclosures that demonstrate genuine ESG integration rather than reporting compliance

5. UN Sustainable Development Goals alignment: mapping organisational ESG activities and targets to relevant SDGs — the SDG reporting approach most valued by development finance institutions and international partners across African operations

6. Lab session: Participants conduct a double materiality assessment for their own or a simulated organisation — working through topic identification, impact and financial significance scoring, stakeholder input integration, and materiality matrix development

Day 3 — Environmental Reporting: Climate, Energy, Water & Biodiversity

1. Climate-related financial disclosures — TCFD and ISSB S2: governance, strategy, risk management, and metrics and targets — the four pillar structure and the specific disclosures required under each pillar

2. Greenhouse gas emissions accounting: Scope 1, Scope 2, and Scope 3 emissions — the GHG Protocol methodology, emission factor selection, calculation approaches, and the data collection challenges particularly relevant to organisations operating across GCC energy-intensive industries and African supply chains

3. Climate scenario analysis: physical risk and transition risk assessment, scenario selection, and the climate scenario analysis methodology that TCFD and ISSB S2 require organisations to conduct and disclose

4. Energy reporting: energy consumption by source, renewable energy percentage, energy intensity metrics, and the energy disclosure requirements under GRI 302 and SASB sector standards

5. Water, waste, and biodiversity reporting: water consumption and withdrawal, waste generation and diversion, biodiversity impact assessment, and the environmental metrics most material to organisations operating in water-stressed GCC and African environments

6. Workshop: Participants calculate a Scope 1 and Scope 2 GHG emissions inventory for a simulated organisation — selecting emission factors, applying calculation methodologies, and preparing the emissions disclosure table required by GRI 305 and ISSB S2

Day 4 — Social & Governance Reporting: People, Community & Integrity

1. Social reporting fundamentals: the social dimension of ESG — workforce, health and safety, supply chain labour standards, community impact, and human rights — the stakeholder relationships that social reporting makes transparent

2. Workforce disclosures: employee headcount by category, gender and nationality diversity metrics, training and development investment, employee turnover, and the GRI 401-405 workforce disclosures most scrutinised by ESG rating agencies across GCC and African markets

3. Health and safety reporting: injury rates, fatality reporting, occupational illness, and the safety performance disclosures required by GRI 403 — with specific application to high-hazard industries across GCC energy and African mining and construction

4. Supply chain and human rights due diligence: supply chain social auditing, conflict minerals disclosure, child and forced labour prevention, and the supply chain human rights reporting gaining regulatory force across jurisdictions affecting GCC and African supply chains

5. Governance disclosures: board composition and independence, executive remuneration alignment to ESG targets, anti-corruption policies, whistleblower protection, and the governance transparency disclosures that institutional investors treat as proxy indicators of overall management quality

6. Workshop: Participants prepare a complete set of social and governance disclosures for a simulated organisation — populating GRI 401-406 workforce and community disclosures and drafting governance transparency statements aligned to investor expectations

Day 5 — ESG Data Systems, Report Production & Stakeholder Communication

1. ESG data collection and management: designing data collection systems, assigning data ownership, establishing data quality controls, and the ESG data infrastructure that makes annual reporting efficient rather than a crisis of last-minute information gathering

2. ESG data assurance: limited and reasonable assurance, selecting an assurance provider, the assurance process, and why third-party assurance of ESG data is rapidly becoming an investor and regulatory expectation across GCC listed companies and African development finance recipients

3. ESG report structure and design: report architecture, section sequencing, narrative and quantitative balance, visual design principles, and the production decisions that determine whether an ESG report communicates effectively or disappears unread into corporate disclosure libraries

4. Integrated reporting and the value creation narrative: the IIRC integrated reporting framework, the six capitals model, and the integrated thinking approach that connects financial and ESG performance into a coherent organisational value creation story

5. ESG rating agencies and investor engagement: understanding MSCI, Sustainalytics, CDP, and ISS ESG rating methodologies — how ratings are calculated, what drives scores, and how ESG reports should be structured to communicate the information rating agencies use

6. Capstone: Participants present their complete ESG Report — covering materiality assessment, environmental disclosures including GHG inventory, social and governance disclosures, SDG alignment, assurance approach, and stakeholder communication strategy — for peer and facilitator review

Regional Relevance

Content is specifically contextualised for ESG reporting professionals operating across KSA, GCC, and African markets — integrating Saudi Arabia's CMA ESG disclosure requirements and Saudi Aramco's sustainability reporting as the regional energy sector benchmark, the Abu Dhabi and Dubai exchange ESG reporting guidelines and the UAE's Net Zero 2050 strategic initiative creating disclosure expectations across the entire UAE corporate sector, Qatar's sustainability reporting requirements aligned to its National Vision 2030 environmental commitments, and the ESG reporting landscape across Africa — where the African Development Bank's environmental and social standards, the IFC Performance Standards governing development finance, and the NSE, JSE, and NGX exchange sustainability reporting guidelines are creating an ESG disclosure ecosystem that is maturing rapidly in response to the international investment community's non-negotiable ESG expectations.

Assessment & Certification

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