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UN SDG Impact Transparency

From intent to impact

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Organisations are increasingly expected to consider not just financial outcomes and business benefits, but also their broader impact on sustainability.

However, the wide-ranging and often ambiguous nature of sustainability - spanning environmental, social, and economic concerns - can leave leaders and teams uncertain of where to start, making it difficult to take meaningful action.

As a result, some may feel overwhelmed and avoid engaging with sustainability altogether. Without clear guidance or accessible frameworks, even well-intentioned organisations risk inertia, missing opportunities to drive positive change while also managing risks linked to unsustainable practices.

This is where Methods and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) can help. 

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Service overview

Sustainability made practical, powerful, and personal

Using the UN Sustainable Development Goals – an internationally recognised framework supported by successive UK governments – Methods helps organisations explore their sustainability impact through tailored, bite-sized, facilitated discussions and assessments.

We make sustainability feel accessible, relevant, and inspiring, removing the sense of being overwhelmed.

Our approach enables leaders and teams to step back, see the bigger picture, and reflect on their plans. This empowers them to tell positive stories, make informed decisions to enhance impact, and identify and mitigate sustainability risks – all while aligning with global best practice. 

Turn sustainability from an overwhelming obligation into a powerful advantage - our tailored, SDG-driven approach helps your organisation unlock hidden impact, mitigate unseen risks, and tell compelling stories of progress that matter to people, planet, and performance

Features
  • Desktop review of project, programme, strategy, or investment decision against the 17 SDGs to identify areas of focus​
  •  Multiple facilitated workshops with key stakeholders to assess project, programme, strategy, or investment decision against SDGs, with opportunities to score current and potential impacts and consider mitigation activities​
  •  Collaborative playback session to key stakeholders to generate buy-in and action​
  •  A cohesive report on findings and enhancement activities, prioritised based on impact vs effort
  •  A tailored approach to ensure the way we capture information and help you plan for improvements is built into your ways of working and delivery tools
  •  Production of a visual dashboard that can be used for communications with stakeholders and help you tell your story
  •  Champion development amongst your team who can continue to support you beyond our assessment activities
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Benefits
  • Achieve programme objectives differently - contribute more than stated aims
  •  Uncovers more positive contributions beyond anticipated benefits that otherwise remain hidden
  •  Uncovers unintended consequences or inadvertent harm - we can't avoid harm unless we look for it
  •  Minimises reputational risk by finding first and enabling corrections
  •  Small adjustments improve both good contributions, correct negative ones, and minimise negative trade-offs
  • Internationally agreed impartial policy framework - allows for getting comfortable with uncomfortable truths or bias, evidenced by the analysis
  •  Independent assessment to understand impacts, even when it seems that programmes are irrelevant to environmental concerns
  •  The approach avoids isolating our everyday work from the twin crises of climate change and biodiversity loss​
  •  Powerful content for business cases and communications
  • An aggregated view of departmental contributions that can contribute to national reporting requirements
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