dr. ali awni• 2016 ifpri egypt seminar series: measuring and monitoring sdgs in egypt
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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!