scaa start un mdgs database
DESCRIPTION
SCAA members are invited to use a sophisticated software system to track sustainability metrics from producers through retailers and to use the system to collaborate around development projects. The START system (Sustainability Tracking And Reporting Tool) provides CSR transparency, operating savings and development project collaboration.TRANSCRIPT
Agenda
Sustainability Tracking And Reporting Tool (START)
• History of START project• Sustainability metrics and UN MDGs• Phases & benefits• Database vendor capabilities• How to find and capture data in your business• Future of collaboration around development projects• Call for recruitment for test user group
Presenters:Al Liu, Atlas Coffee ImportersMark Stell, Portland RoastingDennis Macray, Starbucks Coffee CompanyRick Peyser, Green Mountain Coffee Roasters
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Project History
2005: SCAA signs United Nations Global Compact, principles that businesses and trade associations commit to follow in their operations and strategies.
2006: SCAA Sustainability Committee forms the MDGs Task Force, which uses the MDGs as a framework to guide the Association’s work in the area of sustainability.
2007: MDGs Task Force proposes the use of a database in order to better understand the specialty coffee industry's progress towards meeting the MDGs. 2008: MDGs Task Force learns of a company called CRedit360, which specializes in database software used to track social responsibility initiatives.
January 2009: Credit360 presents to Sustainability Committee & SCAA Board of Directors.
April 2010: SCAA launches START project.
UN Millennium Development Goals
1. Eradicate Extreme Poverty and Hunger
2. Achieve Universal Primary Education
3. Promote Gender Equality and Empower Women
4. Reduce Child Mortality
5. Improve Maternal Health
6. Combat HIV/AIDS, Malaria and Other Diseases
7. Ensure Environmental Sustainability
8. Develop a Global Partnership for Development
The 8 UN MDGs
Database Highlights
Goals• Give SCAA members ability to compile & track their data around sustainability practices• Generate comprehensive data on the impact SCAA members have toward improving
quality of life and advancing the MDGs in reports to the press, industry, and consumers• Encourage member participation in local and global programs that help to achieve the
MDGs and address sustainability issues in general
Phases of DevelopmentPhase 1• Enable users to create a Member Company Report on their respective sustainability
initiatives and their impact on the MDGs• Geographically track where SCAA members are working on MDGs-related initiatives• Gather first-year user group that will input data and improve functionalityPhase 2• Develop bulletin board “marketplace of development projects” for users to post projects
that need support and allow participating members to find projects with matching missions
Phase 3 (proposed)Allow individual users to create a detailed on-line portfolio beyond the Member Company Report
CRedit360
CRedit360: UK-based company specializing in corporate social responsibility reportingClients include Starbucks, major companies & organizationsProvides framework to enable high quality data collection
- Capability to review data, analyze & chartInterface presents data in:• Member Home Pages• Blogs detailing project developments.• Way of sharing experience and best practices from the
field.• Reports for each member, detailing their performance
Identifying Needs
Map shows needs
Reveals country details
Shows what’s happening
Starbucks’ experience
• Starbucks worked with Credit360 to help develop understanding of sustainability indicators, tracking and reporting needs
• Use of Credit360-developed software to track CSR data for several years
• Includes Environmental, Philanthropic, CSR, Supply Chain, and Human Resource metrics among others
• External auditors use data and system for testing and validating Starbucks performance reporting
• Functionality of Starbucks’ system
• Reporting and Communications benefits
Starbucks’ experience
Marketing and communication support
Reporting benefits
CSR Reporting since 2001
Reporting benefits
SCAA START Benefits1. Facilitate Association-level reporting to the UN through annual industry statistics
quantifying efforts to further the MDGs
2. Provide resource for SCAA members to collaborate within the industry around
MDGs and to initiate projects through the database
3. Coordinate the resources of project managers working ‘on the ground’ in coffee-
producing nations with SCAA member resources.
4. Serve as an information hub for the sustainability activities of the SCAA, including
historic projects, and Annual Sustainability Awards.
5. Gather information to provide to press about Memberships contribution to
planet
6. Improvement of sustainability practices from origin through consumption
Link the coffee communities of world
START system enables SCAA members to collect high quality data on variables around:• environmental footprint• operating expenses• procurement data• development project contributions
Via online reporting START provides web-based tools to help with online and offline report presentation
Making use of dataSTART: A member benefit for both large and small companies
Track indicators on everything from:• Electrical, Gas, garbage usage and totals• Contributions to projects, volunteer hours, donations• Annual certified coffee purchased• Reductions in greenhouse gas emissions
Affordable annual access to sophisticated software system$140,000 system available to members for $100 annual subscription
Comprehensive reporting of company’s annual inputs, sustainability metrics, efficiency savings, community support and development projects
Indicator tracking customization by member type Roaster/Wholesaler Producer Exporter Importer/Broker Roaster/Retailer
Retailer Allied NGO Certifier
Tracking your data
Where to look for data:
Bicycle delivery bill
Why Use START?• One place data collection• Year over year trends• User group specific
indicator tracking
Types of Indicators
Development Project IndicatorsHave you contributed money towards community development projects in i.e. Costa Rica?
Did you make a financial contribution? Y/N How much $? Volunteer time?Is the project completed or ongoing?Do you want to post this project for broader collaboration?
Choose which of the eight MDG goals this project had an effect on? For example: MDG #1: Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger
How many pounds/kilos of food were delivered to the community?How many people were reached as a direct result of this project? Or how many coffee-producing families served?How many additional pounds of food were grown due to your project?, ETC.
Indicators based on practices at roasterDo you have a composting program? How many pounds do you divert from the waste stream?Do you recycle? Pounds/kilos of glass/paper/metal/cardboard per month? How much energy do you use per (month/quarter/year) in terms of kwh/mwh?
Purchasing dataHow many lbs/kilos of coffee did you purchase during the past (month/quarter/year, etc)How many lbs/kilos of coffee were certified? Select by type of certifying body
Examples For Roasters
Input of your data
Various user setup
Variables adjust for local currencies
The database is customized to user
Set language for producers
Data presentation
Powerful analysis and charting tools
First of its kind systemSpecialty Coffee can establish industry leadership around sustainability metrics reporting• Support internal marketing efforts• Measuring initiatives shows cost savings in operations• On global level SCAA can measure what is being done
Collectively leverage industry ambitions and capabilities• Healthier people across supply chain• Better education, water access, environment for people• Lower carbon emissions through shared learning• Gain access to outside funding - philanthropic organizations can
participate in your cause
Collaboration
Member Benefits
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your businessMarketplace for development — Find projects in need of
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Moving ForwardQuestions & Answers
Sign up to join the first-year test user group for START!
Learn more details with team members and the software vendor at our boothBooth number: 2489
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