WBCSD is the premier global, CEO-led community of over 200 of the world’s leading sustainable businesses working collectively to accelerate the system transformations needed for a net zero, nature positive, and more equitable future.

→ Across the SDG Business Workshop I continue to raise awareness to business participants and drive the adoption of the SDG Essentials for Business platform to help share practical insights on the obstacles and opportunities we currently face in tackling the integrated climate, nature and inequality sustainability challenge.

GRI is an international, independent organization that has pioneered corporate sustainability reporting since 1997. GRI’s mission is to empower decision-makers everywhere, through its sustainability reporting standards and multi-stakeholder network, to take action towards a more sustainable economy and world. There are over 100 countries communicating impact of business on critical sustainability issues with GRI.

→ As an advocator of the global best practice for impact reporting, the SDG Business Gateway, through the Principled Prioritization Concept, serves on the GRI reporting principles (stakeholder inclusiveness, sustainability context, materiality and completeness) and embraces GRI’s reporting framework. This to deliver business participants the highest level of transparency for organizational impacts on the economy, the environment, and people.​
→ Thanks to the support of the EU Union, La Semme became member of a global community jointly advancing sustainability reporting and to be always at the forefront as a sustainability reporting consultant. With this, I receive practical learning, peer collaboration and networking opportunities in the world of GRI’s Community.

As a special initiative of the UN Secretary-General, the UN Global Compact is a call to companies everywhere to align their operations and strategies with ten universally accepted principles in the areas of human rights, labor, environment and anti-corruption, and to take action in support of the SDGs. The UNGC is a leadership platform for the development, implementation and disclosure of responsible corporate practices. Launched in 2000, it is the largest corporate sustainability initiative in the world, with more than 9,500 companies and 3,000 non-business signatories based in over 160 countries, and more than 70 Local Networks.

→ La Semme is a member of the UNGC.
→ With the help of the UNGC, the SDG Business Gateway is established with practical guidance for integrating the SDGs into corporate reporting.
→ Throughout my work, I promote UNGC's annually Communication on Progress (COP) initiative to business participants. The COP is an annual disclosure through which a business informs its stakeholders about its efforts to implement the principles of the United Nations (UN) Global Compact.
→ I actively use the SDG Action Manager which is a web-based impact management solution that brings together B Lab’s B Impact Assessment, the Ten Principles of the UN Global Compact, and the Sustainable Development Goals, to enable meaningful business action through dynamic self-assessment, benchmarking and improvement.

The UNDP is the United Nations lead agency on international development. The UNDP works in 170 countries and territories to eradicate poverty and reduce inequality. Helping countries to develop policies, leadership skills, partnering abilities, institutional capabilities, and to build resilience to achieve the SDGs. Their work is concentrated in three focus areas; sustainable development, democratic governance and peace building, and climate and disaster resilience.

→ Thanks to the UNDP, SDG Business Gateway’s Principled Prioritization Concept features the best elements of the UNDP Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) approach to provide high-quality assessments at appropriate intervals for SDG-based risk and benefit informed management decisions.
→ As SDG Technical Assistance, I advocate the Sustainable Finance Hub (SFH); actively promoting UNDP Finance Flagships to help building a localized architecture for sustainable finance based on the SDGs.
→ La Semme partnered with the Impact Management Platform, a collaboration between partnering organizations - including UNDP - and all of whom are leading providers of sustainability standards and guidance that are coordinating efforts to mainstream the practice of impact management. Through the platform, we work together to identify opportunities to consolidate existing sustainability resources, collectively address gaps, and coordinate with policymakers and regulators to support the mainstreaming of impact management, including Theory of Change (ToC) developments.

B Lab is transforming the global economy to benefit all people, communities, and the planet. A leader in economic systems change, B Lab's global network creates standards, policies, tools, and programs for business, and certify companies - known as B Corps - who are leading the way. To date, the B Lab community includes 280,000 workers in over 4,000 B Corps across 77 countries and 153 industries.

→ I stay in touch with the certified B Corp community on how businesses are engaging, performing and improving on the Sustainable Development Goals, gain key insights from the UNGC B Corp SDG Action Manager and B Impact Assessment (BIA), and using leadership, influence, and voice to advance the B Corp movement.
→ Throughout my work as SDG Technical Assistance, I prepare SDG actors for B Corp Certification.

UN Women is the global champion for gender equality. The UN organization delivering programs, policies and standards that uphold women’s human rights and ensure that every woman and girl lives up to her full potential.

→ As a woman, I signed the CEO Statement in Support of the Women’s Empowerment Principles (WEPs) and made La Semme a member of the WEPs community.
→ For the design of SDG products and services, I work with UN Women to support the implementation and reporting of gender equality practices, including through bold HeForShe campaigns.

The Value Reporting Foundation is a global nonprofit organization that offers a comprehensive suite of resources designed to help businesses and investors develop a shared understanding of enterprise value; how it is created, preserved and eroded.

→ The SDG Business Gateway serves on the SASB Standards which are a powerful tool developed by the VRF to inform - sector-based - disclosure to investors and guide investor decision-making when embedded in investment tools and processes.
→ Across my work, I advocate VRF's <IR> Reporting Framework, which provides principles-based, multi-capital guidance for comprehensive corporate reporting.

The United Nations Secretary-General established the UN SDG Action Campaign to bring people together from every part of the world to act on the SDGs and to hold decision-makers to account for progress. The UN SDG Action Campaign seizes opportunities to rethink messaging, call to action and reorient policymaking towards the Goals. Through tailored advocacy and communications,the campaign builds powerful networks that reach millions worldwide, urge decision-makers to act and impel momentum.

→ For many years, I work with this UN channel to help countries in increasing public ownership of the SDGs and support the United Nations (UN) on advocacy and public engagement around the SDGs. On a regular basis, UN civil society surveys for engaging people and stakeholder groups on key development issues take place in several African sub-Saharan countries. I also report back on SDG progress through the SDG Action Campaign channel.

The World Economic Forum is the International Organization for Public-Private Cooperation, of where the International Business Council (IBC) is at the forefront. The Forum engages the foremost political, business, cultural and other leaders of society to shape global, regional and industry agendas. It strives in all its efforts to demonstrate entrepreneurship in the global public interest while upholding the highest standards of governance.

→ From 2020, right at the launch of WEF’s Measuring Stakeholder Capitalism project, the SDG Business Gateway drive the adoption of the project to promote common metrics and consistent reporting of sustainable value creation.

As part of the United Nations system, the focal point on youth aims to build an awareness of the global situation of young people, as well as promote their rights and aspirations. The focal point also works towards greater participation of young people in decision-making as a means of achieving peace and development.

→ Throughout the year, La Semme collaborate several UN Youth institutions on relevant domains in the design of SDG products and services to support national youth inclusion, youth coordinating mechanisms across youth programs of action - as integral part of national social and economic development and international cooperation.

FAO is a specialized agency of the United Nations that leads international efforts to defeat hunger.
Their goal is to achieve food security for all and make sure that people have regular access to enough high-quality food to lead active, healthy lives. With 195 members - 194 countries and the European Union, FAO works in over 130 countries worldwide.

→ For the design of SDG products and services, I work with FAO to support the implementation and reporting of sustainable food systems, including through FAO grassroots campaigns.

UNICEF, the children's fund of the United Nations is responsible for providing humanitarian and developmental aid to children worldwide. UNICEF works in the world’s toughest places to reach the most disadvantaged children and adolescents – and to protect the rights of every child, everywhere. Across more than 190 countries and territories, they do whatever it takes to help children survive, thrive and fulfil their potential, from early childhood through adolescence.

→ In response to emergencies on African sub-Saharan territories, La Semme is providing support to children and families in desperate need of safety, stability and protection throughout a verity of fund-raising channels, including the La Semme website.
→ In partnership with UNICEF and UNESCO, particular SDG products and services are equipped with the World’s Largest Lesson educator community. Promoting understanding of the Sustainable Development Goals in learning for children.

The ILO is the leading global authority on the world of work. Promoting social justice and internationally recognized human and labor rights, by bringing together governments, employers and workers of 187 member States to set labor standards, develop policies and devise programs promoting decent work for all. ILO contributes to a more sustainable fashion industry through technical assistance and training in more than 30 countries.

→ I work with ILO's legal instruments to pursue linking disclosing information to relevant international agreements and commitments and setting out basic principles and rights at work on the Future of Work.
→ Since 2017, I made La Semme a member of the ILO Global Business Network on Forced and Child Labor to enable the reporting of wrongdoing through the ILO Red Card initiative when conducting audits.

The European Union is a political and economic union of 27 member states that are located primarily in Europe. An international organization that works to governing common economic, social, and security policies.

→ La Semme work together with several institutions of the EU Union, such as the RVO and PUM and the MVO. Projects include those related to funding, CSR risk management facilitation and EU policy direction.
→ I actively support the work of the EU Directives on Corporate Sustainability Reporting. In that light, I've set the SDG Business Gateway up for several pilot projects to support their efforts.
→ The SDG Business Workshop is equipped with the support of the MVO to facilitate country and sector-based risk assessments.