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United Nations Development Account project

Enabling policy frameworks for enterprise sustainability and SDG reporting in Africa and Latin America

This project intends to strengthen the capacities of Governments to measure and monitor the private sector contribution to the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, in particular on target 12.6 Encourage companies, especially large and transnational companies, to adopt sustainable practices and to integrate sustainability information into their reporting cycle.

Company reporting on the 2030 Agenda is a complex issue that requires addressing a number of challenges, which may be grouped in two levels. There are issues related to the harmonization and consistency of financial information with sustainability reporting in general, and further issues with regard to aligning sustainability reporting with the SDGs monitoring framework and its indicators. However, many countries lack the institutional and technical capacity to adapt their corporate reporting environments to the new demands spurred by the 2030 Agenda and effectively assess the private sector contribution towards attaining the SDGs.

In this context, the project’s goals are to:

  • Develop and implement a mechanism to coordinate efforts among different national authorities in establishing a sustainability reporting framework.
  • Help companies prepare and publish useful sustainability reports within that framework.
  • Support Governments in the collection of comparable and reliable information on companies’ contribution towards the SDG implementation aligned with the global framework of SDG indicators.

At the heart of this mechanism is the integration of financial and non-financial information as part of companies’ reporting cycles.

The project will improve quality and facilitate international comparability of sustainability reporting, as well as enable multiple authorities within Governments to articulate, collaborate, and better assess the private sector contribution towards attaining the SDGs. Ultimately, the project will enhance the SDG monitoring mechanism.
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18 March 2022 E-learning courses with UNITAR: Implementation of core SDG indicators for sustainability reporting by companies, in English, French and Spanish

2-3 March 2022 Consultative Group Meeting on national infrastructure for high quality sustainability reporting

29 April 2021 Virtual Expert Group meeting on the methodology of data collection for reporting on the SDG 12.6.1

29 April 2021 Kick off meeting on the implementation of the Development Account 11th tranche project Enabling policy frameworks for enterprise sustainability and SDG reporting in Africa and Latin America

27 April 2021 Practical implementation of core indicators for sustainable development reporting: Case studies (volume 2)

27 April 2021 Practical implementation of core indicators for sustainable development reporting: Case studies (volume 1)

23-24 March 2021 UNCTAD-ISAR Consultative Group meeting on the core SDG indicators

9 February 2021 UNCTAD webinar series on SDG reporting by companies, including MSME - The adaption of "Guidance on core indicators for entity reporting on contribution towards implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals (GCI)" for the MENA region

3 November 2020 UNCTAD announces recipients of ISAR Honours 2020

28-30 October 2020 National consultative workshop of the Development Account 11th Tranche Project 1819H in South Africa

21-23 October 2020 National consultative workshop of the Development Account 11th Tranche Project 1819H in Guatemala

11 September 2020 Meeting with Colombian companies on sustainability/SDG reporting

15 July 2020 Meeting to present the National Action Plan for Colombia towards developing high quality sustainability/SDG reporting by companies

10 July 2020 UNCTAD co-organized the Webinar on Sustainable and Just Economies held during the High-Level Political Forum

9 July 2020 Virtual Progress Meeting on Development Account Project 11th Tranche in South Africa

3 July 2020 UNCTAD and NBI Workshop “Core indicators for implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals”, South Africa

29 June 2020 Kick off Meeting of the Development Account Project “Enabling Policy Frameworks for enterprise sustainability and SDG reporting in Africa and Latin America”, Guatemala

16 June 2020 UNCTAD-ISAR – WBCSD Webinar Assurance on sustainability reports: current practices and challenges

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