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Social and Environmental Business Assessment Principles Based on International Frameworks
Your decisions require a structured understanding of social and environmental challenges. Base your assessment on frameworks and explicit criteria to examine a company's practices. Strengthen the quality of your findings and dialogue about improvement priorities.
- Duration
- 2 days 14 hours
- Code
- RSE03FR Code
Presentation
In Africa and worldwide, organisations increasingly face questions about the social and environmental impacts of their activities.
Within increasingly international value and supply chains, every organisation must improve, or help its partners improve, against recognised international frameworks considered alongside local regulations.
This course is designed for senior executives and managers wishing to improve their organisation's practices in response to customers, funders and other stakeholders, as well as those involved in assessing and monitoring suppliers or companies in which they wish to invest.
Objectives
Whether assessing their own organisation or a partner, such as a supplier or a potential investment, participants will gain:
- Awareness of opportunities and risks associated with social and environmental challenges.
- Knowledge of the main international frameworks covering human rights at work, health and safety, and the environment, and their content.
- Knowledge of business groups and tools used to organise social and environmental assessments.
- The ability to read audit reports and visit reports and extract the essentials.
- The ability to support the assessed company through improvement plans.
Program
Introduction:
- Welcome and introductions focusing on companies' social and environmental challenges and CSR.
- Context within global supply and investment chains, with a focus on West Africa.
- Key drivers of social and environmental assessments.
- Reflection on the areas in which social and environmental assessments apply: internal operations, procurement, investment and more.
Part 1: international standards and local laws — what do they mean?
- Key topics addressed in social and environmental assessments.
- Key international assessment frameworks: Global Compact, OECD, ILO, ISO standards, OHSAS and others.
- An exercise comparing frameworks with local West African laws, with country-specific adaptation possible.
- Reconciling local laws and international standards.
Part 2: practical study of key assessment topics
- Approaching social assessment through ILO conventions.
- Approaching environmental assessment.
- Approaching management system assessment.
- Exercises and simulations: role plays, virtual visits and more.
Part 3: key assessment principles, reports and visit follow-up
- Preparing an assessment programme.
- Communicating with the assessed entity and demonstrating the benefits for both parties.
- Key principles of on-site diagnostics and audits; the importance of the human factor.
- Reading a visit summary or report.
- Approaching follow-up and the improvement plans to be implemented.
Audience
Audience:
Anyone wishing to understand or involved in the social and environmental assessment of their company and/or suppliers.
In particular:
- Senior management.
- Procurement directors and buyers.
- Investors.
- CSR and sustainable development directors and managers.
- Quality and HSE directors and consultants.
- HR directors and consultants.
- Production directors and managers.
Prerequisites
There are no essential prerequisites. A good understanding of sustainable development and CSR concepts, and possibly responsible procurement, is an advantage.
Teaching and assessment methods
- Initial skills assessment
- Training materials provided to participants
- Continuous assessment throughout the course
- End-of-course feedback questionnaire
- Combination of theory and practical application
- Attendance records
- Post-course follow-up evaluation
Dates and sessions
Choose the date and delivery format that suit you.
No upcoming sessions are currently available.