Develop the Most Effective Impact Strategies with This New Tool
How the SDG Action Manager Can Help Your Company Move the Impact Needle
This article, which includes excerpts from this previous post, is a personal perspective from an employee at B Lab, the nonprofit behind Certified B Corporations. In this series, we invite individual B Lab employees to share their experiences, inspiration, hopes, and challenges as they work toward a more inclusive and regenerative world. This edition of B Lab Voices is from SDG Program Manager Laura Velez Villa.
Without business action, there is no achieving the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. And without the right tools for businesses to map their impact strategies to ambitious yet measurable benchmarks, how will we know if we are actually making progress?
We have just 10 years left to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), a global effort to create a shared, durable prosperity for all people. This really is a shared responsibility. The SDG vision calls for a deep transformation in which business must not only participate but lead — going beyond mapping business as usual to the SDGs to rethinking business models and using their collective voice to ignite further action.
Use the SDG Action Manager to Develop Impact Strategies at Your Business
Insights from B Lab and the UN Global Compact showed that while awareness of the SDGs among companies was high, they lacked the tools and direction to get started and take action. And while there are tools in the market that help companies report on their SDG contributions and how-to guides for specific practices connected to the SDGs, the SDG Action Manager fills an important gap by offering an interactive management solution that provides a 360-degree view and path to improvement.
With this need in mind, B Lab and the UN Global Compact have joined forces to launch the SDG Action Manager. The SDG Action Manager brings together B Lab’s B Impact Assessment, the Ten Principles of the UN Global Compact, and the Sustainable Development Goals to enable meaningful business action through dynamic self-assessment, benchmarking, and improvement.
As we embark on the Decade of Action, it’s crucial that businesses play a leadership role on the SDGs. The SDG Action Manager enables them to do that.
A Global Tool for Global Impact
The SDG Action Manager is made up of 17 modules. Each module will allow businesses to think about their SDG performance holistically, covering their business model, operations, supply chain, collective action, and risk. To help companies improve, the SDG Action Manager balances qualitative actions and quantitative measures, all of which are transparently and automatically measured to add up to SDG-level scores. As more companies join in this effort, the SDG Action Manager will allow users to benchmark their performance, comparing it to groups of companies, including B Corps.
Continuing reading about the SDG Action Manager.
Learn more about B Corps and the SDGs in these B The Change articles:
- FAQ: How the B Impact Assessment and SDG Action Manager Can Help Businesses Plan and Measure Progress
- How the Sustainable Development Goals Provide a Framework for Impact-Minded Businesses
- How the SDGs Help Businesses Effectively Measure and Collaborate to Address the Climate Crisis
- Ethical Fashion Accessories That Incorporate the Sustainable Development Goals
- All About the Sustainable Development Goals: Get Up-to-Speed on Agenda 2030
- A Call to Action for Businesses to Build a Better World: New Online Solution Will Measure Progress on the Sustainable Development Goals
B the Change gathers and shares the voices from within the movement of people using business as a force for good and the community of Certified B Corporations. The opinions expressed do not necessarily reflect those of the nonprofit B Lab.