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Encouraging sustainable business models through NGO–corporate engagement: Cutting edge global business cases
Deloitte Tohmatsu Consulting LLC
Director, Office of CSR and SDGs Initiatives
Kazuo Tase
Oxfam Japan
CSO Network Japan
Kawori Kuroda
Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) emphasize the role of companies in promoting sustainability. Moreover, the “SDG Compass,” which is developed by the United Nations Global Compact and other NGOs, calls on companies to improve the sustainable impact of their core businesses and engage in multi-stakeholder partnerships, including with NGOs.
Recently in Japan, there have been spirited attempts to create new value through business-NGO partnership. In many cases, such partnership involves the company supporting the work of the NGO or the two parties pursuing a joint venture; rarely does the partnership lead to a change in the business model itself.
This workshop introduces a collaborative initiative called Poverty Footprint, in which international NGO Oxfam worked with companies such as Unilever and Coca Cola, helping them understand and improve the poverty impacts of their value chains. The workshop also discusses the lessons this case holds, as well as the issues it raises, regarding efforts to encourage a change in business models through NGO–corporate engagement.
Deloitte Tohmatsu Consulting LLC
Kazuo Tase