From 1 January 2018 onwards, companies with more than 500 employees are required by EU rules to publish regular reports on the social and environmental impacts of their activities. This will help investors, consumers, policy makers and other stakeholders to evaluate non-financial performance of large private sector companies and in turn encourage these companies to […]
Conventional monitoring and evaluation In ‘conventional’ monitoring and evaluation, we are used to measuring progress towards predetermined outcomes and ‘verify’ if a programme’s objectives were reached. After having developed a set of core-indicators for each of the outcomes, a baseline (‘snapshot’ of the situation at programme’s start) is typically established to create a benchmark against […]
Truvalu.enterprises actively participates in local small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in Asia, Africa and Latin-America. Its mission is to create local jobs, global networks and a sustainable impact combined with economic returns. Truvalu.enterprises aims to achieve this by building fair and transparent value chains, in which all parties are equal partners: the producers in emerging […]
An explanation of this assignment Windesheim Honors College (WHC) approached Sinzer with three questions: How can we better understand the social value we create? How can we communicate this better? And, how can we ensure the impact expertise of the teachers and management and make it part of the curriculum? In short, we organized a […]
More and more organizations are working on sustainability and social impact, and link this to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs): the 17 sustainable development goals that were launched by the UN in 2015 as an action agenda up to 2030. The SDGs provide a good starting point for sustainable strategy, measuring results and reporting: but […]