Before completing the application, please review the eligibility criteria below to ensure you are eligible.
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To be eligible, applicants must come from
companies with active status as participants of the Global Compact. To maintain
active status, companies must submit their Communication on Progress (CoP) for
2024 within the reporting time frame of 1 April to 31 July. Subsidiaries can
participate if their parent company meets this obligation. To avoid disrupting
the Pioneers application process, companies are strongly encouraged to submit
their CoP by 1 June 2024. Failure to report by 31 July will disqualify a Pioneers
application.
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A change in CoP status subsequent to being
recognized as a Local and/or Global SDG Pioneer may result in losing
consideration for the SDG Pioneer title.
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Companies must have joined the UN Global Compact
prior to 1 October 2023.
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Global Compact Network Board Chairs and Board
Members are not eligible to apply, given their core role and influence at the
Global Compact Network. However, other representatives from the company
represented by the Board Chair and Board Members are welcome to apply. For
Expansion Countries, Leadership Council members are also not eligible to apply,
given their influence. However, other representatives from the companies
represented by the Leadership Council members are welcome to apply.
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If a representative of a Global Compact
participating company has been part of the SDG Pioneers External Review
Committee (e.g., member of the LN Board), this person will be asked to step
down from their Committee role if a candidate from the same company will be
applying to the same Pioneer local round.
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Any individual who has been part of the SDG
Pioneers External Review Committee will need to wait out for one cycle before
submitting an application to the Local or Global round of the SDG
Pioneers.
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Previous Local or Global SDG Pioneers can apply
for another year of recognition, but a thorough review of their application
will be required to ensure it covers different activities/ projects than in the
previous application. Additionally, if the former SDG Pioneer sat on the
External Review Committee, this person will need to wait out one cycle since
having covered that role before being able to submit an application again.
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Global Compact Networks cannot recognize
individuals from the same company within five years.