Your project did good. The waste got halved, the local hires happened, the community kept the garden. Then the project closed, the team moved on — and when the company sat down to write its yearly sustainability report, none of it could be found on paper. Good work that nobody wrote down might as well not have happened.
The Project Sustainability Reporting Guide, from the PMI–GPM joint venture, exists for exactly that. It connects the day-to-day of a project to the reports organisations must publish, so the evidence gets captured while it happens rather than hunted for afterwards. It costs nothing to read, and it is right here.
Read the guide
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What’s inside, in plain terms
The guide walks every stage of a project, from before kick-off to after handover, and shows what to record at each step so nothing worth reporting slips away. It comes with ready-made tools — a register for impacts, a table for the topics that matter most, a checklist for verifying claims, a tracker for benefits — and tailored versions for different industries, from construction and energy to healthcare and IT. The record it builds lines up with the major reporting rulebooks companies answer to, in Europe and worldwide.
Where it fits
Think of the family of publications as three questions. The P5™ Standard asks: what should a project measure? The Practice Guide asks: how should the work be run? This guide asks the third: how do you write it down so it counts? Together they take a project from good intentions to good evidence — and if you want to be certified in applying them, explore the courses.
