The document discusses how businesses can leverage and engage with the UN's new Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). It provides an overview of the SDGs and compares them to the previous Millennium Development Goals. It also outlines strategies for businesses to understand the SDGs, assess their impact, set aligned goals, and communicate their contributions. Specific organizations collaborating on engagement efforts are mentioned, along with examples of how certain companies are already implementing the SDGs.

1. • Tom Smith Sedex @SedexTom
• Vincent Kneefel United Nations @VincentKneefel
• Christina Gossmann Digital Divide Data
@ChrisGossman
#SB15sd
How to Leverage the New UN Sustainable
Development Goals: Expectations and
Engagement Strategies

2. How to Leverage the New UN Sustainable
Development Goals: Expectations and
Engagement Strategies
Vincent Kneefel, Manager LEAD
UN Global Compact
19 May, 2015

3. The UN Global Compact: The Post-2015 Agenda
▪ World’s largest corporate
sustainability initiative: more than
12,000 participants - including over
8,500 businesses in 145 countries
▪ Rio Conference in 2012 set the
mission of creating the SDGs –
business to join Governments in the
process
▪ UN Global Compact’s efforts have
focused on engaging participants on
- The “What”
(What the SDGs should cover)
- The “How”
(How to implement the SDGs)

4. The MDGs vs. the SDGs
1. End poverty in all its forms
2. End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition, and promote
sustainable agriculture
3. Ensure healthy lives and promote wellbeing for all at all ages
4. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong
learning opportunities for all
5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls
6. Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation
7. Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy
8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and
productive employment, and decent work for all
9. Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable
industrialisation, and foster innovation
10. Reduce inequality within and among countries
11. Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable
12. Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns
13. Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts (taking note of
agreements made by the UNFCCC forum)
14. Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources for
sustainable development
15. Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems,
sustainably manage forests, combat desertification and halt and reverse
land degradation, and halt biodiversity loss
16. Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development,
provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and
inclusive institutions at all levels
17. Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalise the global
partnership for sustainable development
2000-2015 Millennium Development Goals 2015 - 2030 Sustainable Development Goals

5. Architecture for Business Engagement
Main building blocks necessary to enhance corporate sustainability as an effective
contribution to sustainable development. Each must be further strengthened if they are to
help take corporate sustainability to scale.

6. Business
Impact
Assessment
& Goal setting
Global
Reporting
Initiative
(GRI)
UN Global
Compact
(UNGC)
World Business Council for
Sustainable Development
(WBCSD)
Objective is to support companies in 3 crucial areas:
1. Understand the SDGs and their business
relevance
2. Assess impact and set business goals aligned
with the SDGs
3. Communicate current and future impact to
stakeholders in a credible and meaningful
manner.
Deliverables by September 2015:
1. 20-30 page guide for business with
recommendations and best practices
2. Inventory of commonly used business KPIs
mapped against SDGs
3. Introduction for each SDG to business relevance
and relevant impact assessment methodologies
The SDG Compass Project

7. Setting Business Goals Aligned with the SDGs
Objectives
• Identify corporate leadership practices for defining and implementing
sustainability goals
• Define criteria for what constitutes the most ambitious sustainability
goals that have the potential to advance global SDGs
Internally: An important management tool that helps drive focus/ prioritization
across the organization, create internal accountability, and incentivize
implementation
Publicly: An effective communication tool, expressing in practical terms the
contribution of the company to sustainable development
• Sustainability goals should, implicitly or explicitly, link business
success and sustainable development
• Ideally reflected in the company’s statement of purpose / mission
• Can help companies more effectively communicate with stakeholders
familiar with the SDGs

8. @sedexcsr | sedexglobal.com
How to Leverage the new UN Sustainable
Development Goals: Expectations and
Engagement Strategies
June 4, 2015| San Diego, CA
Tom Smith, Acting General Manager, Sedex Global

9. @sedexcsr | sedexglobal.com
Sedex is the world’s
largest responsible
sourcing membership
community
Not-for-Profit Membership
Organisation
38,000+ buyer / supplier
members worldwide
Operate globally in 150+
countries across 30+ sectors
Provide services & support on
sustainable sourcing
Sedex enables collaboration,
reduces duplication &
supports multi-tier
transparency
Collaborate with stakeholders,
promote responsible sourcing
Who are we?

10. @sedexcsr | sedexglobal.com
A selection of our members…

11. @sedexcsr | sedexglobal.com
Where are we right now?
Sedex / UNGC Survey of Small Medium Enterprises (SMEs) 2015 – gauging
awareness / understanding of SDGs:

12. @sedexcsr | sedexglobal.com
Where are we right now?
Sedex / UNGC Survey of Small Medium Enterprises (SMEs) 2015 – gauging
awareness / understanding of SDGs:

13. @sedexcsr | sedexglobal.com
Any questions?
Tom Smith
Acting General Manager
Sedex Global
Tom.Smith@sedexglobal.com
+44 (0)20 7902 2322
@SedexCSR @SedexTom
For more information on Sedex go to www.sedexglobal.com

14. Implementing SDGs: The Impact Sourcing Way
www.digitaldividedata.com
Impact Sourcing
“Outsourcing that benefits disadvantaged individuals in low employment areas. It looks beyond the common
source of supply for traditional outsourcing to provide higher-income employment and access to new income
opportunities to individuals that might not otherwise be employed in this sector” Accenture
“A business process service delivery model that provides quality and cost at parity with traditional BPO
services, but with optimized enhancements.” Everest Group
Impact Sourcing Service Providers (ISSPs)
• 40+ enterprises globally, committed to impact
• Range in size from 20 to 2000+ staff
• 12% of Business Process Outsourcing market today
• Youth earn up to 200% more, benefits 3-4 family members
• Services: Content Digitization & Conversion, Data Services,
Research Services, Image Processing, Back office services

15. DDD Facts + Client Examples
Company Facts
Founded: 2001
Staff: 1200+ worldwide
Revenue: $8.0m total revenue in FY14
Office Locations: Cambodia, Laos, Kenya
and U.S.A. (New York, San Francisco, Fort Monroe, VA)
Structure: Hybrid non-profit/for-profit
Governance: Incorporated in the USA as non-profit public
benefit corporation to facilitate the creation of sustainable
jobs and educational opportunities in emerging market
countries.
Recent recognition
2015 Global Outsourcing 100® Rising Star, International
Association of Outsourcing Professionals’® (IAOP)
Google Innovation Awards for BPO, Training and Education,
BPO
www.digitaldividedata.com
Client Examples