Influence Measurement & Administration for the SDGs

About this Course

How can companies and traders assist fill the multi-trillion-dollar hole wanted for sustainable growth? Merely put: by incorporating sustainability and social influence elements on individuals and planet into administration choices. By this course, anybody can study to enhance their group’s apply of influence measurement and administration and align their ESG or influence actions and reporting with rising international requirements.

Influence Measurement and Administration for the SDGs is a collaboration between UNDP SDG Influence and the award-winning crew at CASE at Duke College. The United Nations Improvement Programme (UNDP) is a steward of the United Nations Sustainable Improvement Targets (SDGs) that had been launched in 2015 and to which 193 international locations have signed as much as obtain by 2030. The SDGs are a shared plan to finish excessive poverty, cut back inequality, and defend the planet; they’ve grow to be the world’s blueprint to realize a greater and extra sustainable future for all. However the public sector can’t meet these objectives alone. Local weather change, poverty, racial and gender fairness, meals, well being, training, clear water − the record of challenges confronted by individuals and planet is just too lengthy. Companies and traders have stepped in to assist. The course was designed across the basic components of the SDG Influence Requirements, the one administration requirements that embed sustainability on the core of a company within the holistic method supposed by the creators of the SDGs. The course demonstrates how the SDG Influence Requirements assist organizations align with accountable enterprise rules, different requirements, and finest practices in influence administration. Within the course, you’ll study to enhance decision-making for optimistic influence on individuals and planet in step with the SDG Influence Requirements and the Working Ideas for Influence Administration. Within the course, we’ve got translated 4 common practices of influence administration into sensible actions: SET STRATEGY, INTEGRATE, OPTIMIZE and REINFORCE. We train the steps to implement these actions by means of brief movies and classes with concrete sensible examples. Professionals who know how one can apply these sustainable administration requirements are more and more in demand by establishments globally as they work to enhance their efficiency and reporting round ESG and influence administration. In the event you work or want to work inside an enterprise, a company, a fund that manages belongings or an asset proprietor or advisory that oversees funding belongings, or for those who simply wish to study extra about influence investing, ESG, social finance or company reporting, this course will show you how to grasp the core ideas and practices in influence administration for the SDGs and different impacts from enterprise and investor views. This course was written and is delivered by CASE College Director Cathy Clark, and benefitted from in depth enter from a bigger crew from UNDP, CASE, international tutorial advisors, and different consultants. For a full record of acknowledgements, see: https://websites.duke.edu/casei3/for-practitioners/impact-measurement-and-management-for-the-sdgs-course/

Syllabus – What you’ll study from this course

WEEK

1

1 hour to finish

Welcome to Influence Measurement and Administration for the SDGs!

How can the personal sector assist fill the $2 trillion hole wanted for sustainable growth? By getting higher at measuring and managing its influence on individuals and planet. This module introduces the 4 common steps of influence measurement and administration (SET STRATEGY, INTEGRATE, OPTIMIZE and REINFORCE), explores how they are often utilized throughout the funding worth chain to simplify ESG and influence practices. It additionally introduces the SDG Influence Requirements and the 5 Dimensions of Influence.

WEEK

2

3 hours to finish

Set Technique

Set Technique equips you to grasp the fabric points most related to your stakeholders after which outline your goal SDG outcomes in ways in which align along with your total enterprise or funding goals. You’ll create an influence thesis for every, and, for those who’re an investor, a revised funding coverage assertion that integrates your SDG objectives. You’ll additionally set ABC classification ranges in your objectives. Word that this week is split into two components: first, instruction, overview supplies, and assets for Enterprises, and second, the equal supplies for Buyers. The fabric is cumulative, and to finish the course, you will have to go the quizzes for each roles.

WEEK

3

2 hours to finish

Combine

Combine teaches you how one can put into place the assets, instruments, and processes that can permit you to measure your SDG influence. In the event you’re an enterprise this contains setting efficiency targets, selecting indicators from throughout the 5 dimensions, and deciding the way you’ll monitor these indicators. In the event you’re an investor, this includes integrating influence administration processes into each step of your funding course of, from due diligence by means of exit. Word that this week is split into two components: first, instruction, overview supplies, and assets for Enterprises, and second, the equal supplies for Buyers. The fabric is cumulative, and to finish the course, you will have to go the quizzes for each roles.

WEEK

4

1 hour to finish

Optimize

Optimize is about what you do when the processes you’ve arrange generate details about your influence. Importantly, this step goes past simply accumulating the information. That is the place you utilize the information to create extra influence. We present you how one can analyze enterprise information to grasp the place efficiency deviated from the plan and why. Then we information you to make use of that evaluation to make choices in regards to the new actions you’ll take to enhance influence efficiency. In the event you’re an investor, you’ll overview the information coming out of your investees and monitor their administration of SDG influence. You’ll determine whether or not to carry and have interaction to extend influence, or exit, taking influence concerns under consideration. Word that this week is split into two components: first, instruction, overview supplies, and assets for Enterprises, and second, the equal supplies for Buyers. The fabric is cumulative, and to finish the course, you will have to go the quizzes for each roles.