The Global Compact Network Italy (GCNI) was established to contribute to the development in Italy of the "Global Pact", a project designed to promote the culture of corporate citizenship launched in 1999 by the former Secretary-General of the United Nations Kofi Annan.

Its mission is to make sure that the Global Compact will not only become better known and receive more adhesions, but that it will be taken more seriously, by the adherent enterprises and their partners, as a tool in undertaking social responsibility.

Considering this objective the Network operates as an information platform, giving support and coordination to Italian companies and organizations which resolve to share, support and employ a whole range of universal principles in matters of human rights, labour, environment and the fight against corruption, thereby contributing to the accomplishment of "a more wide-ranging and sustainable global economy".