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About the Course

How can businesses and investors help fill the multi-trillion-dollar gap needed for sustainable development? Simply put: by incorporating sustainability and social impact factors on people and planet into management decisions. Through this course, anyone can learn to improve their organization's practice of impact measurement and management and align their ESG or impact activities and reporting with emerging global standards. Impact Measurement and Management for the SDGs is a collaboration between UNDP SDG Impact and the award-winning team at CASE at Duke University. The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) is a steward of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) that were launched in 2015 and to which 193 countries have signed up to achieve by 2030. The SDGs are a shared plan to end extreme poverty, reduce inequality, and protect the planet; they have become the world’s blueprint to achieve a better and more sustainable future for all. But the public sector cannot meet those goals alone. Climate change, poverty, racial and gender equity, food, health, education, clean water − the list of challenges faced by people and planet is too long. Businesses and investors have stepped in to help. The course was designed around the fundamental elements of the SDG Impact Standards, the only management standards that embed sustainability at the core of an organization in the holistic way intended by the creators of the SDGs. The course demonstrates how the SDG Impact Standards help organizations align with responsible business principles, other standards, and best practices in impact management. In the course, you’ll learn to improve decision-making for positive impact on people and planet in line with the SDG Impact Standards and the Operating Principles for Impact Management. In the course, we have translated 4 universal practices of impact management into practical actions: SET STRATEGY, INTEGRATE, OPTIMIZE and REINFORCE. We teach the steps to implement these actions through short videos and lessons with concrete practical examples. Professionals who know how to apply these sustainable management standards are increasingly in demand by institutions globally as they work to improve their performance and reporting around ESG and impact management. If you work or wish to work within an enterprise, a corporation, a fund that manages assets or an asset owner or advisory that oversees investment assets, or if you just want to learn more about impact investing, ESG, social finance or corporate reporting, this course will help you master the core concepts and practices in impact management for the SDGs and other impacts from enterprise and investor perspectives. This course was written and is delivered by CASE Faculty Director Cathy Clark, and benefitted from extensive input from a larger team from UNDP, CASE, global academic advisors, and other experts. For a full list of acknowledgements, see: https://sites.duke.edu/casei3/for-practitioners/impact-measurement-and-management-for-the-sdgs-course/ Selected course materials have been translated into Baha Indonesia, Thai, and Vietnamese. Spanish and Turkish translations are coming soon. Please find links to these translations under the Resources tab once you are inside the course. This course was made possible by generous support from Norad....

Top reviews

DM

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I like the dual-pathyways in this course. One for enterprises and another for investors. Excellent delivery in a structured manner.

AH

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Extremely informative course. I will be applying what I've learned to my work and look forward to integrating SDG IMM practices .

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By Morziul H

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Aug 28, 2022

Very Good.

By Kalika Y

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Nov 14, 2022

very good

By 郭庭瑜Kuo T

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May 19, 2024

Thanks

By Daivute V

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Sep 27, 2024

Puiku

By Mary O L

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Aug 25, 2023

great

By pushpendra p s

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Oct 19, 2022

good

By Егерева П Г

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Apr 3, 2022

Positive points: rhe course provide a complex information about SDG and its management, not only for enterpreneurs, but lao for investors. I like that during thr course I had an opportunity to create a plan as an investor and got special tools for it.

Points that can be improved: the course provide a lot of information, so it is hard to keep it also (each step has substeps). Sometimes the information was repeater twice or more times.

Thank you for this course!!! It was amazing journey

By Monica P Z

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Aug 10, 2022

It is a good perspective and offers great recommendations to include SDG management in an enterprise or investment company. I was searching for something for evaluating the actions of public management, which I believe gave me some insights however, it is not 100% applicable. Also, I believe that for social or small firms in development countries is hard to reach to the presented standard, but it is definitively a goal.

By IrConseil

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Sep 30, 2022

This course is very clear, easy to follow and full of very useful working tools for anyone wanting to develop Impact measurement and management in his / her business. Great and efficient synthesis about the existing knowledge. Thank you for that ! What could be optimized would be maybe : adding practical cases and more active discussions among learners to enhance links between the course and effective situations.

By Anne S

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Apr 8, 2022

The content is well prepared, and actionable for companies and investors at all stages of ESG readiness. Videos are simple, easy to understand, and succinct with quizzes that help internalize training. My only feedback is to simplify material duplicated between Enterprise and Investor sections each week.

By Chris M

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Jan 27, 2022

Great information. Well organized and robust. Well present by Cathy. This is a very 'dense' course which limits retention. It is a practial / applied course, with little time sharing a 'why' for methods.

By Francesco P

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Nov 27, 2023

Interesting discussion on SDGs Impact Measurement & Management, which introduces a fascinating insight into how companies and investors should support the path to a better world for all.

By Jeridah S

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Feb 7, 2022

Such useful information on how to set SDG strategy , how to monitor and reinforce for both investors and enterprises. I liked the incoporation of real life examples.

By Asma M

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Jun 30, 2023

The course is great but the quizzes and assignment duplicated each other. It was like re-attempting the same questions all over again.

By Alicia D l C

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Aug 22, 2022

I enjoyed learning about IMM from the intestors and enterprises point of view

By Jeimmy A Z V

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Oct 21, 2022

Complete Material and resources. Highly recommended

By Francois

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Feb 12, 2024

A relevant course for SDGs Investment management

By Preshant S

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May 22, 2022

Could do with a capstone project

By Ayşegül A

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Dec 26, 2023

l havent time

By THAI V Q

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Jul 19, 2022

Good to learn

By keshav j

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Nov 17, 2022

well done

By Joanna A

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Aug 13, 2023

The information provided by the course is useful for those working in the development sector, in terms of how to align objectives and measurement work with the SDGs. I have been able to apply several of the additional resources to actual strategy development and measurement work.

However, I would recommend the standards of the course quiz and assignments be reviewed and improved: many of the questions can be answered through commonsense and very repetitive across the quiz and the assignment. It would be better if the assignments were case studies where one has to apply concepts and principles of what has been learnt - which would make this a more valuable course.

By Vaishnavi P

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May 13, 2022

Concepts thought are too generic and basic. They can make it a little bit subject oriented too.

By Rishabh R

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Sep 2, 2022

bekar corse