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Assessment & Review Services

Are you investing precious resources in sustainability or CSR reports, policies, strategies, management systems, or other initiatives to drive improved performance? If the answer is yes, then how can you be sure that your hard work is effective in achieving your objectives? Sd3's assessment and review services can answer this common dilemma. We can also help with questions such as: does the project meet new legislative requirements, or how are my competitors and peers doing? Sd3's assessment and review services can help you move forward, provide insights and create value. Our range of services has been grouped to match three common client needs.


Our Strategy Assessment and Review Services include:
  Entry-level assessment of policies. For example, policies that underpin a sustainability management system
  Review of current management systems against available industry and general standards (e.g. BS 8900)
  Alignment check of CSR/sustainability policies and strategies with their core corporate equivalents
  Project Sigma's Risk & Opportunity Tool.
     
Our Management Assessment and Review Services include:
  SD Review. A health-check on your existing sustainability management system.
  Materiality Assessment Tool. Using a risk-based approach; AccountAbility's Five-Part Materiality Test or the GRI Guidelines - this tool also has close links to our Reassurance and Engagement services.
  Sustainability Appraisal (SA) to assess the economic, environmental and social impacts of strategies and policies.
     
Our Strategy Assessment and Review Services include:
  Baseline Sustainability Review to an agreed format, for example GRI and UN Global Compact
  Sd3 Benchmarking and Analysis Tool© for a clear insight into the state of your non-financial report, using gap analysis and peer review options
  Materiality Assessment to manage issues robustly. This tool also has close links to our Reporting and Engagement services.

Sd3 Assessment Review Projects Include:

P&G
Assessment of sustainability management system for a sectoral compliance scheme

London Borough of Ealing
Statutory Sustainability Assessment of local planning documents

Rio Tinto
Report benchmark and analysis

Capita
Please contact Sd3 for details


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