Global Compact International Yearbook 2014
Fighting poverty and global warming are key challenges for mankind. „This year we are laying the groundwork for success in 2015 on three fronts: achieving the Millennium Development Goals, adopting a meaningful new climate agreement, and establishing a new vision for a sustainable future“, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon says in the 2014 edition of the Global Compact International Yearbook. Edited by macondo publishing the new yearbook offers insights to political as well as sustainability issues. This years´ focus lies on the Post-2015 Agenda. We discuss the transition from Millennium Development Goals to Sustainable Development Goals. Question are among others: Are the concepts compatible? How does the architecture of a sustainable future look like? And above all: What role does corporate responsibility play in this context? The second key aspect in our Post-2105 discussion is about measuring the SDGs. In the past indicators have been developed and used in reporting progress toward the MDGs, and now the approach to upcoming SDGs must be systematically developed. This section also includes lessons from innovation management and "big data". Climate change is another focus of teh yearbook. It counts on very prominent authors like Christiana Figueres, Executive Secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), and Sigmar Gabriel, Vice-Chancellor of the German government and Federal Minister for Economic Affairs and Energy. Other issues are : Traceability: How certification brings positive impacts and better traceability to business. Elaborated NGO inputs by Karin Kreider, the Executive Director of the ISEAL Alliance and one of the world’s leading experts on credible certification and eco-labeling, as well as Markus Arbenz, Executive Director of the International Federation of Organic Agriculture Movements (IFOAM) and Caroline Hickson, Director of Brand, Communications and Strategic Partnerships at Fairtrade International. Mandatory CSR: When CSR discussions started in the late 1960s, early 1970s ethical and moral arguments were the drivers. Since then CSR activities have become more holistic and professional. This becomes a principle-based approach in which business seeks to identify smarter business models, products, and services. Elmer Lenzen illuminates the boder zone between voluntary and mandatory CSR.
Fighting poverty and global warming are key challenges for mankind. „This year we are laying the groundwork for success in 2015 on three fronts: achieving the Millennium Development Goals, adopting a meaningful new climate agreement, and establishing a new vision for a sustainable future“, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon says in the 2014 edition of the Global Compact International Yearbook. Edited by macondo publishing the new yearbook offers insights to political as well as sustainability issues.
This years´ focus lies on the Post-2015 Agenda. We discuss the transition from Millennium Development Goals to Sustainable Development Goals. Question are among others: Are the concepts compatible? How does the architecture of a sustainable future look like? And above all: What role does corporate responsibility play in this context?
The second key aspect in our Post-2105 discussion is about measuring the SDGs. In the past indicators have been developed and used in reporting progress toward the MDGs, and now the approach to upcoming SDGs must be systematically developed. This section also includes lessons from innovation management and "big data".
Climate change is another focus of teh yearbook. It counts on very prominent authors like Christiana Figueres, Executive Secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), and Sigmar Gabriel, Vice-Chancellor of the German government and Federal Minister for Economic Affairs and Energy.
Other issues are :
Traceability: How certification brings positive impacts and better traceability to business. Elaborated NGO inputs by Karin Kreider, the Executive Director of the ISEAL Alliance and one of the world’s leading experts on credible certification and eco-labeling, as well as Markus Arbenz, Executive Director of the International Federation of Organic Agriculture Movements (IFOAM) and Caroline Hickson, Director of Brand, Communications and Strategic Partnerships at Fairtrade International.
Mandatory CSR: When CSR discussions started in the late 1960s, early 1970s ethical and moral arguments were the drivers. Since then CSR activities have become more holistic and professional. This becomes a principle-based approach in which business seeks to identify smarter business models, products, and services. Elmer Lenzen illuminates the boder zone between voluntary and mandatory CSR.
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SaYGa<br />
a PurPOSe BeYOnD PrOFIt<br />
By Shimaa Abdelfadeel, Sayga<br />
Since its founding in 1996, Sayga has fundamentally changed the landscape of the milling<br />
and baking industry in Sudan. It has transformed a sector that relied on hand-ground, lowquality<br />
wheat imported in limited quantities into a revolutionized arena led by a responsible<br />
business committed to creating shared value for all its stakeholders. Along with producing<br />
healthy, affordable, and accessible staple foods, this approach has resulted in an improved<br />
quality of life for industry workers and consumers, and solidified Sayga’s position as a leader<br />
in the baking industry.<br />
As a business, we appreciate that investments<br />
of time and resources are not only<br />
about improving the bottom line, but<br />
also improving the social, economic,<br />
and natural environments in which our<br />
business operates. Our Baking Industry<br />
Development initiative is built on<br />
improving local circumstances in food<br />
industry practice and aligns with the<br />
local community’s priorities and needs.<br />
Through it, we have initiated a number<br />
of ongoing programs directed at adding<br />
sustainable value to our society.<br />
Our popular Baking Development Center<br />
(BDC) is a modern facility based in Khartoum<br />
that offers free, certified classes<br />
year-round to baking professionals and<br />
the general public. Our courses are most<br />
popular with the local women from our<br />
target segment. They register for one of<br />
the five-day classes through our company<br />
call center, leading many of them<br />
to expand on the experience and become<br />
entrepreneurs. The curriculum also incorporates<br />
management classes for bakery<br />
owners, distribution agents, and partners.<br />
In 2013, Sayga Investment Company officially merged with DAL Agricultural<br />
Services Company, DAL Dairy Factory, and DAL Food Industries<br />
to form DAL Food. DAL Food is committed to providing affordable,<br />
high-quality staple food and drink products to local and regional markets. Armed<br />
with strategic clarity, operational effectiveness, and a tradition of excellence, we will<br />
strive to further develop our capabilities and continue to raise standards with the<br />
highest consideration for our consumers, our communities, and our environment.<br />
We believe our sustainability depends on realizing the right balance of all three.<br />
By engaging in responsible and sustainable business practices across our organization,<br />
we aim to enhance the livelihoods of people across our value chain with integrity<br />
and responsibility. Built on the strength of our capabilities, DAL Food aims to be<br />
a leading food business in the region.<br />
We forged partnerships with civil society<br />
organizations to facilitate vocational training<br />
for the socially, economically, and<br />
physically disadvantaged – including<br />
customized classes for the blind and hard<br />
of hearing – and donate half of all products<br />
from the classroom to local charities<br />
through our Food Sharing Programme.<br />
Eager to reach the largest number of<br />
people all across Sudan, the BDC instituted<br />
a traveling trainer center. The five<br />
customized mobile bakery schools are<br />
designed to reach communities in remote<br />
rural areas, so as to service the majority<br />
segment of the population that does<br />
not have access to our Khartoum-based<br />
classes. As with the BDC, they offer classes<br />
that empower households and bakers<br />
with new skills and nutritional education,<br />
as well as offer technical support<br />
and equipment distribution for bakeries.<br />
The mobile schools are vital in allowing<br />
us to reach communities all over Sudan<br />
and train the majority of our beneficiaries.<br />
To date, more than 160,000 bakers and<br />
community members have been trained<br />
by the resident center and the mobile<br />
bakery schools.<br />
166 <strong>Global</strong> <strong>Compact</strong> <strong>International</strong> <strong>Yearbook</strong> <strong>2014</strong>
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