Description
The project aims at improving the promoter NGO in its role of advancing sustainable development within the Portuguese business community, in particular, small and medium-sized enterprises. Working on the consolidation of the Corporate Sustainability Observatory and on the updating, promotion and strengthening of its sustainable development monitoring system – the Corporate Sustainability Index – the promoter will broaden the scope of its action, as well as its performance and effectiveness. The promoter and its partner organization - a university - developed both these resources for the purpose of monitoring and fostering the systematic implementation of good practices on sustainable development, approaching corporate management as an ongoing self-assessment process. One of the envisaged innovations of the project will be the computerization of the Index’s data collection and analysis processes on the following subjects: energy and climate, biodiversity and ecosystems’ services, sustainable production and consumption, strategic leadership and human capital.
Summary of project results
Through this project, the promoter NGO set out to improve and expand the services it provides to Portuguese SMEs and the business community in general, in the promotion of sustainable development and in monitoring the implementation of good practices in a systematic, ongoing self-assessment process. The project, which counted with a leading engineering university in Portugal as a partner, included the update of an existing Corporate Sustainability Index and the broadening of its implementation. Also in connection with this Index, a new information system was developed. One of the innovations implemented through the project was the computerization of the Index’s data collection and analysis processes on energy and climate, biodiversity and ecosystems’ services, sustainable production and consumption, strategic leadership and human capital. Also, a total of 21 people received training by the time the project was concluded.
Summary of bilateral results