This month, we review what the CBI's work with its Trade Association members has looked like since the start of the year.
Following the release of our half year of impact report, here's how we have been working with our trade association members so far this year.
After our prospectus last year, we established several key principles to guide how we work with trade association members.
- Humility: Recognizing the unique sector expertise of Trade Associations while leveraging the CBI’s ability to integrate sector views into a broader economic context
- Clarity: Emphasizing the CBI’s role in defining crucial economic issues and providing comprehensive analysis to support your campaigns
- Honesty & Transparency: Committing to openness and feedback, and being transparent about policy decisions when the collective voice is not unified
- Additionality: Avoiding duplication of your work by using your insights to enhance our analysis, and sharing our findings with you where appropriate.
To put these principles into action, we identified several practical areas for collaboration:
- Sharing information: Enhancing the value we provide through better sharing of political insights and macro-economic analysis, including inviting TA lea