Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels
Trust is the foundation of a strong and resilient society. To foster trust, we must ensure that institutions at all levels are accountable, transparent, inclusive and just.
This SDG has several 2030 targets to which every company can contribute. These targets aim to significantly reduce all forms of violence and related death rates everywhere; end abuse, exploitation, trafficking and violence against children; significantly reduce illicit financial flows; combat organized crime and reduce corruption and bribery in all their forms; develop effective, accountable and transparent institutions; and ensure responsive, inclusive, participatory and representative decision-making at all levels.
Every Future-Fit Business must avoid slowing down progress toward this SDG by:
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Procurement of goods and services does not hinder progress.
The environmental and social footprints of a company’s supply chain affect society’s progress towards many of the global challenges that the SDGs seek to address. By taking steps to increase the fitness of its supply chain, the company encourages actions that support the related SDGs.
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Community health is safeguarded and suppliers are actively encouraged to do the same.
This ensures that communities across the value chain are empowered to voice concerns about the company’s activities, and that such concerns are handled appropriately.
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Actively soliciting, impartially judging and transparently addressing employee concerns and actively encouraging suppliers to do the same.
This ensures that workers across the value chain are empowered to voice concerns over unequal treatment, unethical behaviour, or breaches to their rights, and that such concerns are handled appropriately.
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Product concerns are actively solicited, impartially judged and transparently addressed
Trust is the foundation of a strong and resilient society. To foster trust, we must ensure that institutions at all levels are accountable, transparent, inclusive and just.
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Conducting business ethically.
This ensures that mechanisms are in place to enable the company – and all of its employees – to foster trust by preventing, identifying, managing and acknowledging ethical breaches (e.g. implementing policies that respect the spirit of natural and international law, and equipping employees to respond appropriately if offered bribes).
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Lobbying for outcomes that do not hinder progress.
This ensures that no effort to influence market dynamics (by the company or any third party acting on its behalf) is done in a way that undermines the transparency or accountability of institutions at any level, or that could undermine progress towards sustainable development, justice for all, and the promotion of peaceful and inclusive societies.
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Investing in assets that do not hinder progress.
The environmental and social footprints of a company’s investments affect society’s progress towards many of the global challenges that the SDGs seek to address. By taking steps to increase the fitness of its financial assets, the company encourages actions that support the related SDGs.
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Any Future-Fit Business may actively speed up progress toward this SDG by:
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Ensuring more people are healthy and safe from harm.
Reducing the amount of people exposed to abuse, exploitation, trafficking and violence, promotes more peaceful societies where people are safe from harm.
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Ensuring individual freedoms are upheld for more people.
Protecting people's fundamental freedoms ensures peaceful and inclusive societies.
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Ensuring social cohesion is strengthened.
Increased safety within communities ensures peaceful and inclusive societies.
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Strengthening infrastructure in pursuit of future-fitness.
Developing quality, reliable, sustainable and resilient infrastructure removes barriers to wellbeing and protects the health of the environment.
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Strengthening governance in pursuit of future-fitness.
Ensuring governance is accountable, participatory, responsive, responsible and transparent removes barriers to wellbeing and protects the health of the environment.
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Strengthening market mechanisms in pursuit of future-fitness.
Overcoming technological, knowledge and incentive barriers through the use of market mechanisms removes barriers to wellbeing and protects the health of the environment.
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Aligning social norms to increasingly support the pursuit of future-fitness.
Ensuring social norms align with socially and environmentally responsible behaviour removes barriers to wellbeing and protects the health of the environment.
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