During 2011, the PRME Secretariat, the Steering Committee and PRME partners worked hard to continue to give PRME participants valuable opportunities to implement the Principles and engage with the PRME community – especially at a regional level. In 2011, PRME welcomed 70 new Signatories, bringing the total to over 400 institutions representing 77 countries. This is an important milestone for our goal to reach at least 1000 Signatories by 2015.

We have also seen an increasing number of activities within the PRME community that relate to knowledge exchange and thought leadership, such as an analysis report on the first 100 Sharing Information on Progress (SIP) reports, the continuous intake of SIPs, and the launch of the PRiMEtime blog. The PRME Secretariat also developed logos for the Six Principles, which are available for use by participants via the PRME website.

Moving forward, PRME’s strategic goals are to:

1. Increase number of participants to 1000 by 2015 (the Annex includes a graph tracking the number of new participants per month) and
2. Enhance the quality of participant engagement.

In line with these strategic goals, the PRME 2011 Annual Report and 2012 Outlook outlines the actions and activities by the PRME Secretariat, PRME Steering Committee members, and PRME Participants, individually and/or collectively.