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Social Impact Assessment and SDGs

Workshop 2PRME SIP ReportsSDG 1: Eradicate Poverty!

Workshop 2PRME SIP ReportsPoverty is a Human Rights Violation!

• “The persistence of poverty is also the robbing of human potential. Poverty is not just a lack of money – it is not having the capability to realize one’s full potential as a human being.” – Amartya Sen

• “Poverty itself is a violation of numerous basic human rights” - Mary Robinson, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, 1997

Proper shelter, clean water, nutritious food, and good education?

http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/News/4837/18/Getting-poorer.aspx

http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/1/151/82499/Egypt/Features/Egypts-public-school-system-Failing-all-tests.aspx

Workshop 2PRME SIP Reports

What can a School of Business do?

The main themes of AUC School of Business

The Gerhart Center to-be Foot PrintFunctional Areas

Create awareness about social impact assessment & provide capacity building services.

Create a regional/global network with thought leadership & practice centers.

Social ImpactPhilanthropySocial Change Agents

programs (Civic Engagement)

Leading center for research & data analysis & trends in Philanthropy (individual, foundations, endowments, & corporate) in the region.

Capacity building for foundations & NGO.

Corporate & family philanthropy.

Leadership in providing & designing social change agents training programs & organizational design practices for CSOs, corporations & governments.

Programs delivered & developed as GC owned, or through partnerships.

Research on good practices in responsible and inclusive businesses (ie. labor rights, environmental sustainability, corporate governance..).

Promotion & capacity building of businesses /entrepreneurs in the region on responsible business practices.

Further integration of responsible business in management education through knowledge platforms (e.g. BOP Lab & UN PRME)

Responsible Business

School of Business: BoP Global Lab Network & PRME

Workshop 2PRME SIP ReportsGerhart Center as Platform …

Platform for many social initiatives• BoP Lab network• PRME – Poverty Working Group• Students’ Chapters

– Net Impact– Alashanik Ya Baladi

Workshop 2PRME SIP ReportsUniversities and SDGs

• Solution networks: facilitators for initiatives between government, business and CSOs.

• Support the development of an Impact Research Agenda – Develop a social impact research agenda that tackles

national development priorities and fill in the knowledge gap, with a prospective outlook on policy choices and implications (top-bottom and bottom-up)

– Capacity development through twinning and partnership arrangements to build a pool of Egyptian technical caliber (including young researchers) capable to undertake and lead social impact research

Steps to Sustain Performance Excellence (TQM View)

Better Execution of Current Practices Innovation/Implementation of New Practices Relevant to Operational Strategy/Performance Objectives

Define, Measure, Analyze, Improve and Control (DMAIC)

The UN Global Compact Management Model

https://www.unglobalcompact.org/library/231

• Thank you!