SDGs Contribution Assessment

1-Send us your request letter and attach information for your company introduction

2- We will review your information and ask you to declare specific activities or projects which you have done related to UNMDG, SDGs, CSR, and ESG.

3-We will assess your company based on our principles as follows.

4- If you pass the SDS assessment successfully you will be certified for UNSDGs contribution (Related SDGs)

Our Assessment will be done in 3 Phase:

1. Basic Assessment

2. NSDS Assessment

3. UNSDGs Assessment

1- Basic Assessment

Basic Assessments are vital to informing Agenda 2030 policy priorities. They ensure decisions are grounded in the needs of the community and provide a baseline against which to measure progress towards achieving the goals.
Our basic assessment is Designed to be comprehensive and rooted in the Ten Principles of the UN Global Compact. this assessment covers cross-cutting principles across all SDGs and demonstrates a general commitment to them, focusing on topics such as human rights, labour practices, environmental management systems, and good governance
The 2030 agenda is about more than the SDGs. It is informed by the principles of universality, human rights, integration, partnership, inclusivity, pursuing development within planetary boundaries, inter-generational responsibility and leaving no one behind. These principles represent the spirit of the 2030 agenda and serve as transformative elements of implementation. The assessment looks at whether they mention principles of the 2030 agenda, including human rights-based approaches, leaving no one behind, universality, inter-generational responsibility and planetary boundaries.
In the Basic Assessment, users answer a series of questions about how companies can proactively manage issues related to their fundamental responsibilities to respect the dignity of individuals, the rule of law, and the natural ecosystems that are at the foundation of our life and society.
To provide comprehensive coverage of the core topics related to these responsibilities, the module has been rooted in the globally recognized Ten Principles of the UN Global Compact. Topics include questions about commitments to human rights, positive labour practices, environmental management systems, and good governance.

What is our goal in Basic Assessment?

• Find your starting point: Learn which SDGs matter most to you based on your company profile, and how to take action today.
• Understand and share your impact: Get a clear view of how your operations, supply chain, and business model create a positive impact, and identify risk areas for each SDG.
• Set goals and track improvement:
• Collaborate across your company: Invite colleagues to join the SDG Action Manager, contribute expertise, and see real-time progress and performance.
• Learn at every step: Determine high-impact action based on thought-provoking yet actionable assessment questions, benchmarks, and improvement guides.
• Trailblazer together: Join a global movement of companies working to build a better world for people and our planet by 2030.

2-Assessment Based on NSDS

We have been working on “Sustainable Development Strategy (SDS)” as a discourse since 2005.
Our strategy is an “Integrated Approach to Sustainable Development, Planning and Implementation” covering issues from humanities and philosophy to applied science, engineering and medical sciences on a national scale in a frame of multidisciplinary/ interdisciplinary concepts.
We strategically focused on action at the national level, SDS Group considered it as a perspective in finding solutions for the problems in global Environmental, Social and economic issues. It also tried to create effective Inclusive Institutes and the Virtuous Cycle.
At the same time of our working fortunately the Programme for the Future Implementation of Agenda 21 has been adopted at the Special Session of the UN General Assembly, member states reaffirmed the importance of National society’s role in solving global issues such as climate change, water crisis, poverty, hunger and other threatening issues. So, they set a target for the formulation and elaboration of National Sustainable Development Strategies (NSDS) that reflect the contributions and responsibilities of all member states.

According to this UN document, the NSDS “should be developed through the widest possible participation” and it “should be based on a thorough assessment of the current situation and initiatives”. It recommitted the member states to “take immediate steps to make progress in formulating and elaborating national strategies for sustainable development and to begin their implementation.
Working hard for more than a decade resulted in NSDS being accepted by the UN as a part of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (17 SDGs) in 2015. Six of these SDGs are allocated to NSDS listed as follows:

Goal 3: Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages.
Goal 11: Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable.
Goal 13: Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts.
Goal 15: Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and biodiversity loss.
Goal 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.
Goal 17: Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the global partnership for sustainable development.

It defined the National Sustainable Development Strategy (NSDS) as “a coordinated, participatory and iterative process of thoughts and actions to achieve economic, environmental and social objectives in a balanced and integrative manner”. Most importantly, NSDS is a call for institutional change.
As a pioneer in promoting and developing NSDS as one of the main tools in assessment 6 specific Sustainable Development Goals, SDS Group New York is trying to motivate and support other players on a national and regional scale by evaluating their function based on the following principles:

Core Principles

A. Integration of economic, social and environmental objectives

B. Participation and consensus

C. Country ownership and commitment

D. Comprehensive and coordinated policy process

E. Targeting, resourcing, and monitoring

3- SDGs Specific Assessment

In SDGs Specific Assessments, users will be able to dive deep with specific questions highlighting key practices and measures that they can take to help achieve that particular SDG.
Rooted in the underlying targets of each Sustainable Development Goal, SDG Specific Assessment feature questions are designed to go deeper into the many different ways businesses can make concrete contributions to the individual SDG.

It is structured by Business Model, Internal Operations, Supply Chain, Collective Action, and Risk Level to cover the many different aspects of businesses that can contribute positively to the Global Goals

• Governance
evaluate what your company can do to enhance policies and practices about its mission, ethics, accountability and transparency.

• Workers
Assess what your company can do to contribute to your employees’ financial, physical, professional, and social well-being.

• Community
Assess what your company can do to contribute to the economic and social well-being of the communities in which it operates.

• Environment
Check what your company can do to improve its overall environmental stewardship.

• Customers
audit what your company can do to improve the value that you create for your direct customers and the consumers of your products or services.

• Disclosure Questionnaire
Identify any potentially sensitive industries, practices, outcomes or fines/sanctions of your company that are not explicitly called out in the rest of the assessment.

• Business Model
This section provides an overview of how a company’s business model may be oriented toward contributing to the SDG, including how a company can analyze how its business relates to the goal and whether it has explicitly designed products or services to achieve it.

• Internal Operations
This section covers topics related to how the company can contribute to the SDG within its operations, including practices related to its facilities, workforce, etc.

• Supply Chain
This section covers topics related to how the company manages its supply chain’s contributions to the SDG, including supplier screening practices and supplier support.

• Collective Action
This section recognizes the broader opportunities a company can engage in outside its business model, operations, and supply chain to contribute to the SDG at the industry, regulatory, or societal level. Topics include advocating for positive regulatory reforms, industry collaborations, and community investments.

• Risk Level
This section covers potential issues that may negatively affect or inhibit the SDG. Scored separately from the other sections, this is intended to indicate risk and potential priority areas to mitigate.