Corporate Social Progress frameworks and metrics can identify and measure the multiple dimensions of the social and environmental performance of company.
The aim of Copenhagen Compliance during the Bhutan CSR conference is to develop The Corporate Social Progress framework, by creating an integrated CSR framework to promote lasting sustainable change and the company's social and environmental performance. The index can be used by all stakeholders as a tool to benchmark CSR success, improve CSR policy, and catalyze CSR actions.
To truly advance social progress, we must learn to measure it, comprehensively and rigorously. The Social Progress Index offers a rich framework for measuring the multiple dimensions of social progress, benchmarking success, and catalyzing greater human wellbeing. The 2014 version of the Social Progress Index has improved upon the 2013 'beta' version through generous feedback from many observers. We continue to welcome your use and testing of our data, and feedback to help us continue to improve
Just like The Social Progress Index the vision is to develop a corporate understanding that social progress sits alongside economic prosperity as the twin scorecards of corporate success.
Rich ‘North’ and a poor ‘South’
Our generation is wrestling with the need to offer better lives to a world population that is not just growing but ageing too. Economic growth has brought many benefits but we are hitting environmental limits and social indicators lag too slowly behind. We live in a world on the cusp of different challenges: too many people under-nourished and too many risking early death and disability from obesity. Old models based on a rich ‘North’ and a poor ‘South’ make less and less sense. Top-down solutions are increasingly understood to be inadequate. Change is an imperative for the world today and that change must be one that is about building not just rich societies but good societies, what we call social progress.
A tool to understand community needs
The Social Progress Imperative is defined by the mission to turn metrics into action. Over the last year the Social Progress Index has been adopted as an official measure of national performance by the Government of Paraguay and already is guiding public and private investment choices there. In Brazil, the Index has been adopted by social entrepreneurs and businesses as a tool to understand community needs and inform interventions to advance social progress.
The Index incorporates four key design principles:
- Exclusively social and environmental indicators: our aim is to measure social progress directly, rather than through economic proxies.
- Outcomes not inputs: our aim is to measure outcomes that matter to the lives of real people, not spending or effort.
- Actionability: the Index aims to be a practical tool with sufficient specificity to help leaders and practitioners in government, business, and civil society to benchmark performance and implement policies and programs that will drive faster social progress.
- Relevance to all countries: our aim is to create a framework for the holistic measurement of social progress that encompasses the health of societies at all levels of development.
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