Global Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Benchmarks: Standards For Organizations Around The World

The latest edition of Global Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Benchmarks (GDEIB) was launched on April 2021 and was developed to address the challenges faced in organizations and communities through discrimination, inequity, and exclusion.

Global Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Benchmarks (GDEIB) are used to curb the challenges and ensure all parties involved in the process learn, grow and engage in activities that emphasize on diversity, equity and inclusion practices. Its mission is to serve as a resource for research and education for individuals and organizations in their quest to improve diversity and inclusion practices around the world.

Global Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Benchmarks (GDEIB) helps organizations to determine strategy and measure progress in managing diversity and fostering inclusion. Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) have emerged as worldwide practices that are critical to an organization’s success and its sustainability. 

There are different approaches that can be used to understand GDEIB and its focus i.e. advocating for social justice focuses on achieving fairness and equity locally and globally, building competence focuses on increasing the DEI competence of individuals, honoring dignity focuses on secular, religious, or spiritual recognition of the value and interdependence of every human being, developing the organization focuses systemically on improving organizational performance.

The GDEIB is designed to guide organizations to achieve best practices. The model with its 15 categories helps leaders and DEI professionals implement strategies that work as an integrated system. Achieving many of the benchmarks in any given category is dependent on the achievement of benchmarks in other categories.

For each category, the benchmarks are divided into five levels that indicate progress:

• Level 5: Best Practice-Demonstrating current global best practices in DEI.

• Level 4: Progress-Implementing DEI systemically and showing improved results and outcomes beyond what is required or expected.

• Level 3: Proactive- A clear awareness of the value of DEI; starting to implement DEI systemically.

• Level 2: Reactive- A compliance-only mindset; actions are taken primarily to comply with relevant laws and social pressures.

• Level 1: Inactive-No DEI work has begun; diversity, equity, and inclusion are not part of organizational goals.

The youth of Kenya have been involved with many projects and programs which are developed to help the youth to grow in their everyday life. In the world today, the youth still go through exclusion, discrimination and inequity.

Global Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Benchmarks (GDEIB) will assist in bridging the gap use to improve and have an open conversation with different stakeholders and understanding the importance of equal opportunities to all and ensure all involved are on the same page which is diversity, equity and inclusion of all youth hence ensure sustainable development.

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