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GRI 413: Local Communities·Disclosure GRI 413-2

Operations with significant actual and potential negative impacts on local communities

Practical guidance for preparing this disclosure. Use this card to identify the information to prepare, verify claims and organise supporting evidence. For exact requirements, always refer to the official Global Reporting Initiative source.

Legal status

GRI 413: Local Communities 2016 remains the applicable published GRI Topic Standard and is effective for reports or other materials published on or after 1 July 2018.

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Last reviewed 2026-08-03
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GRI 413: Local Communities

Disclosure GRI 413-2 · 2016

Effective

2018-07-01

Official source: Open ↗

Last reviewed

2026-08-03

LRA educational guidance · Not issued or endorsed by Global Reporting Initiative

Disclosure focus

This disclosure requires the organization to identify operations with significant actual or potential negative impacts on local communities.

For each relevant operation, report:

its location; and

the significant actual and potential negative impacts associated with it.

The disclosure covers significant economic, social, cultural and environmental impacts on local communities and their rights. It is not limited to nearby residents, environmental incidents or formal complaints.

GRI 413-2 does not require a percentage or coverage figure.

GRI recommends providing additional information on community vulnerability, exposure through shared resources and the intensity or severity, likely duration, reversibility and scale of each significant impact.

Community investment, donations and programme expenditure do not answer this disclosure unless they are relevant to explaining the identified negative impacts.

This LRA educational guidance supports disclosure preparation. For the exact requirements, always refer to the official Global Reporting Initiative source.

Before you start

Before you start

A quick mental checklist before you prepare this disclosure — tick each as you settle it.

Preparation

Key information to prepare

Preparation field What to capture Evidence hint Owner
Relevant operation Operation meeting the significant-impact threshold. Operation register, impact-identification records and management review. Operations / Sustainability
Operation location Sufficient geographical information to identify where the operation is located. Site, asset or project register, maps and legal records. Operations / Property
Local community Community affected or potentially affected by the operation. Stakeholder mapping, impact assessment and community records. Community Relations / Human Rights
Impact status Actual, potential or both. Incident records, monitoring data, project plans and risk assessments. Risk / Operations
Impact category Economic, social, cultural, environmental or human-rights impact. Topic-specific assessments and source-system evidence. Relevant topic owner
Significant impact description Nature of each significant negative impact. Impact assessment, complaints, investigations and monitoring records. Sustainability / Risk
Vulnerability factors — recommended Isolation, socioeconomic development, infrastructure, proximity, social organization and institutional governance. Community baseline and social-impact data. Social Performance
Exposure factors — recommended Hazardous substances, pollution, employer dependency, land conversion, resettlement and natural-resource consumption. Operational and community-impact evidence. Environment / Operations
Impact characteristics — recommended Intensity or severity, likely duration, reversibility and scale. Impact-assessment methodology and analysis. Sustainability / Risk
Evidence and review Source references, assessment date and approver. Evidence register and sign-off. Sustainability Reporting
+ Show GRI 413-2 sub-elements (LRA working checklist)

How to prepare it

Define the operating unit used for the disclosure.
Identify local communities affected or potentially affected by the organization’s operations.
Consolidate actual-impact information from performance data, grievances, incidents, monitoring and assessments.
Consolidate potential-impact information from investment plans, expansion plans, risk assessments and impact assessments.
Assess which impacts are significant.
Identify the operations associated with those significant impacts.
Record the location of each operation.
Describe actual and potential impacts separately.
Classify impacts as economic, social, cultural, environmental and/or human-rights impacts.
Assess differentiated impacts on vulnerable or disadvantaged groups.
Add the recommended community-vulnerability factors.
Add the recommended shared-resource exposure factors.
Describe severity, duration, reversibility and scale.
Retain source references for every operation and impact.
Aggregate sensitive information only where the required location and impact information remain understandable.
Verify the final disclosure against GRI 413-2(a)(i)–(ii).

Request the data

Request the disclosure evidence

Translate the disclosure into an internal business question — then adapt it to your organisation's own language.

Please provide the GRI 413-2 operation-impact register for [reporting period]. For each relevant operation, include: operation name and internal ID; operation type; location; affected or potentially affected local community; impact category; description of the impact; whether the impact is actual, potential or both; evidence supporting the impact; basis for determining significance; intensity or severity; likely duration; reversibility; scale; relevant community-vulnerability factors; and source owner and assessment date.

Use the organisation's own role and document names, but preserve the defined GRI terms and the scope described above.

Better request

Please provide the GRI 413-2 operation-impact register for [reporting period]. For each relevant operation, include: operation name and internal ID; operation type; location; affected or potentially affected local community; impact category; description of the impact; whether the impact is actual, potential or both; evidence supporting the impact; basis for determining significance; intensity or severity; likely duration; reversibility; scale; relevant community-vulnerability factors; and source owner and assessment date.

Draft your disclosure

Notes that turn data into a disclosure

LRA training templates — adapt them to your organisation, and check the official source before sign-off.

Method note

Operations were identified through [impact-identification process]. Significant actual and potential negative impacts were assessed using [methodology]. Locations are reported at [site / municipality / regional] level.

Context note

Keep mandatory GRI Requirements, GRI recommendations and additional LRA preparation controls clearly distinguished. Apply a GRI 1 reason for omission where required information cannot be reported.

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Assurance readiness

For each claim, check the evidence

Claim Risk Evidence to check
We identified operations using a documented and consistently applied operating-unit definition.The published response does not support this human-reviewed assurance check.Trace the statement to current approved records and the official IFRS source.
We did not calculate or disclose a coverage figure as though it were required by GRI 413-2.The published response does not support this human-reviewed assurance check.Trace the statement to current approved records and the official IFRS source.
We considered communities living or working both adjacent to and at a distance from operations where they could be affected.The published response does not support this human-reviewed assurance check.Trace the statement to current approved records and the official IFRS source.
We considered significant economic, social, cultural, environmental and human-rights impacts.The published response does not support this human-reviewed assurance check.Trace the statement to current approved records and the official IFRS source.
We distinguished actual impacts from potential impacts.The published response does not support this human-reviewed assurance check.Trace the statement to current approved records and the official IFRS source.
Potential impacts are supported by credible plans, assessments or risk evidence.The published response does not support this human-reviewed assurance check.Trace the statement to current approved records and the official IFRS source.
Formal complaints were considered but were not used as the only impact-identification source.The published response does not support this human-reviewed assurance check.Trace the statement to current approved records and the official IFRS source.
Recorded incidents were not classified as significant automatically.The published response does not support this human-reviewed assurance check.Trace the statement to current approved records and the official IFRS source.
The financial effect on the organization was not used as the sole significance test.The published response does not support this human-reviewed assurance check.Trace the statement to current approved records and the official IFRS source.
Each disclosed impact is linked to an identified operation.The published response does not support this human-reviewed assurance check.Trace the statement to current approved records and the official IFRS source.
Each disclosed operation includes sufficient location information.The published response does not support this human-reviewed assurance check.Trace the statement to current approved records and the official IFRS source.
Each operation-impact combination is linked to an affected or potentially affected local community.The published response does not support this human-reviewed assurance check.Trace the statement to current approved records and the official IFRS source.
Different impacts at the same operation are recorded separately where appropriate.The published response does not support this human-reviewed assurance check.Trace the statement to current approved records and the official IFRS source.
The disclosure does not replace significant impacts with grievance or remediation counts.The published response does not support this human-reviewed assurance check.Trace the statement to current approved records and the official IFRS source.
Where recommendations are applied, community vulnerability and exposure factors are supported by evidence.The published response does not support this human-reviewed assurance check.Trace the statement to current approved records and the official IFRS source.
Where recommendations are applied, severity, duration, reversibility and scale are assessed impact by impact.The published response does not support this human-reviewed assurance check.Trace the statement to current approved records and the official IFRS source.
Sensitive location or community information is aggregated without obscuring the required information.The published response does not support this human-reviewed assurance check.Trace the statement to current approved records and the official IFRS source.
Any unavailable required information is addressed through the applicable GRI reason-for-omission requirements.The published response does not support this human-reviewed assurance check.Trace the statement to current approved records and the official IFRS source.
The final disclosure can be traced to the underlying operation and impact records.The published response does not support this human-reviewed assurance check.Trace the statement to current approved records and the official IFRS source.
The no-significant-impact conclusion, where used, is supported by a sufficiently broad assessment.The published response does not support this human-reviewed assurance check.Trace the statement to current approved records and the official IFRS source.

Evidence pack to prepare

Common reporting gaps

A percentage or coverage figure is disclosed instead of the required operation-level information.
The number of grievances is presented as the main GRI 413-2 result.
The number of remediation programmes is presented as a required datapoint.
Operations with significant impacts are not identified.
The operation unit is unclear or inconsistent.
Locations are omitted.
Legal entities are listed without identifying the affected operations.
Impacts are listed without linking them to operations.
Operations are listed without describing the significant impacts.
Only actual impacts are reported.
Only potential risks are reported.
Actual and potential impacts are not distinguished.
Only environmental impacts are considered.
Economic, social, cultural or human-rights impacts are omitted.
Only communities immediately adjacent to the site are considered.
People working in the affected area are omitted.
Vulnerable groups are treated as homogeneous with the broader community.
Every complaint is classified as a significant impact.
The absence of complaints is treated as evidence of no significant impact.
A financial-risk rating is used instead of an impact-significance assessment.
Hypothetical future events are reported without credible supporting evidence.
Significant impacts are softened into generic community concerns.
Positive community programmes are presented instead of negative impacts.
Community donations are presented as evidence for GRI 413-2.
A no-impact conclusion is based only on an environmental assessment and omits social, cultural or economic impacts.
Sensitive information is removed together with all required location information.
The disclosure cannot be traced to operation-level evidence.

Examples

Illustrative examples

Synthetic, written by LRA — not from a company report, not text from any standard.

Illustrative example 1

Illustrative synthetic example — Mining
The organization identified significant impacts at three operations:
Operation and location
Actual negative impacts
Potential negative impacts
North Mine, Region A
Dust, traffic and restricted access to agricultural land
Increased water stress from the planned expansion
Central Processing Plant, Region B
Noise and air emissions affecting nearby residents
Community health impacts arising from a potential process failure
Eastern Tailings Facility, Region C
Loss of customary access routes
Land conversion and economic displacement associated with the proposed expansion
The assessment considered affected-community vulnerability and the severity, duration, reversibility and scale of each impact.

Synthetic LRA illustration. Replace every figure and fact with the reporting organisation's evidence.

Illustrative example 2

Illustrative synthetic example — Technology hardware
Two operations were identified:
Manufacturing campus, City D: actual night-time noise and traffic impacts on surrounding residential areas; potential water-access impacts associated with the proposed capacity expansion.
Assembly facility, Region E: actual solvent-odour complaints and potential community-health impacts associated with accidental chemical release.
The organization disclosed the location, affected communities and the nature of each actual and potential impact.

Synthetic LRA illustration. Replace every figure and fact with the reporting organisation's evidence.

Illustrative example 3

Illustrative synthetic example — No significant impacts identified
The organization assessed economic, social, cultural and environmental impacts across its operations and did not identify operations with significant actual or potential negative impacts on local communities during the reporting period.

Synthetic LRA illustration. Replace every figure and fact with the reporting organisation's evidence.

Company reports

How companies report GRI 413-2 in practice

Examples of full and partial reporting practice. These are evidence-led reviews, not exact disclosure templates to copy.

Real published reports
Wistron Corporation
Technology Hardware and Equipment · Taiwan · 2024
Open report →

Wistron provides a direct no-significant-impact response in its 2024 GRI Content Index.

The company states that it assessed the dependence and impacts of its own operations on the local natural environment through the LEAP approach and concluded that there were no significant or potential negative impacts.

The current card should:

recognize that page 272 contains a substantive no-impact statement rather than only a reference to the disclosure title;

remove the claim that items 413-2(a)(i) and 413-2(a)(ii) are missing merely because no operations were listed;

explain that operation locations and impact descriptions are not applicable if no operation meets the significant-impact threshold;

assess whether the LEAP-based review covered the full economic, social, cultural, environmental and rights-related scope of GRI 413-2, rather than only natural-environment impacts;

remove unrelated occupational-hazard references; and

classify the report as a direct no-significant-impact response whose assessment scope requires review.

Do not classify it automatically as either complete or incomplete solely because the result is zero.

Wistron’s index expressly states its assessment approach and no-significant-impact conclusion.

Sumitomo Forestry Co., Ltd.
Home Building · Japan · 2025
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Sumitomo Forestry does not substantively report GRI 413-2 in its 2025 GRI Content Index.

The GRI 413-2 row appears on report page 536 and shows a dash in the disclosure-location column.

The current card should:

correct the page reference from page 537 to page 536;

remove the claim that a covered datapoint is provided;

remove references to forced-labor risk and waste management;

state that the content index does not identify a substantive disclosure location; and

classify GRI 413-2 as not reported unless a separate substantive source is located.

The official content index shows no disclosure location for GRI 413-2.

Hindustan Zinc Limited
Mining — Iron, Aluminum, Other Metals · India · 2025
Open report →

Hindustan Zinc’s Sustainability Report 2024–25 maps GRI 413-2 to an external Impact Assessment Report.

The GRI mapping appears on report page 113. It does not itself identify the affected operations, their locations or their significant actual and potential negative impacts.

The Community Engagement and Development section on pages 73–82 mainly describes stakeholder engagement, CSR interventions and positive community programmes. These disclosures support GRI 413-1 and the management approach but do not automatically satisfy GRI 413-2.

The revised card should:

correct the principal reference from page 116 to report page 113;

describe page 113 as a GRI content-index cross-reference rather than substantive impact data;

follow and assess the linked external Impact Assessment Report;

verify whether that report identifies operations and locations;

verify whether it describes significant actual and potential negative impacts, rather than only evaluating the positive effectiveness of CSR programmes;

remove the page 119 land-and-resource-rights reference as primary GRI 413-2 evidence; and

classify the disclosure as external cross-reference requiring verification until the linked report is assessed.

Hindustan Zinc’s index maps GRI 413-2 to an Impact Assessment Report without providing the required operation-impact information in the index row itself.

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