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International Development & Sustainability Due Diligence
World Bank’s report ‘Poverty and Shared Prosperity 2020’ highlights unprecedented, massive reversals of fortune with the consequence of exacerbated global poverty because of the COVID-19 pandemic’s outbreak.
By most estimates, these reversals of fortune are expected to inflate the ranks of the Extreme Poor by adding as many as 150 million more people. Other contributing factors to rising global poverty indicators are armed conflicts and climate change. In this understanding, the report observes that more than 40 percent of the global poor live in conflict-affected territories, countries, and economies.
About 132 million global poor are concentrated in areas severely exposed to multiple environmental risks, including high flood disasters.
“We help governments, business corporations, academic institutions, and philanthropies strengthen policy capacity, design and evaluate complex development programs, carry out social impact planning, or manage the societal impact of their research agenda.”
Since the 1972 Stockholm Conference, preoccupation with environmental issues has gained momentum in international development.
As exemplified in the successive negotiations (COP21-26) under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) regime, adverting climate crisis and effectively adapting to climate change is at the heart of global governance and national policy-making.
As a response to “Goal 13” of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), efforts towards transitioning to a low-carbon economy now shape responsible policy planning within the background of reducing carbon dioxide (CO2) levels and the emission of other greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.
Such Sustainability efforts require innovation and greater policy capacity from government leaders and units.
However, the effectiveness of the response to Sustainability’s challenge is contingent upon the quality of governance institutions.
As reminded in SDG 16, a functional statehood and a sound governance framework that guarantees justice, ensures political stability, protects Human Rights, facilitates participation, and promotes civic engagement, are central to Sustainable Development.
In its 2016 Declaration on the Environmental Law, the IUCN World Commission on Environmental Law underlined that the enforcement of legal rights and obligations, environmental governance, conservation, and protection may be unpredictable without the environmental rule of law.
Good Governance is the description that captures the prevalence of a rule of law system, the existence of democratic decision-making processes, the exercise of decentralization mechanisms and power devolution, and the efficiency of Public Administration.
International Development is not only confined to State actors and other public sector entities, nor to the individual communities on the receiving end of policies.
Non-state actors such as Business enterprises equally bear responsibilities for International Development. In 1998, the United Nations Global Compact was the first international initiative to successfully push for the recognition of the role of Businesses in Development.
The SDGs picked up the torch to formally engage business leaders in finding global and local solutions for Sustainable Development.
In today’s sustainability landscape, businesses have scaled up schemes towards ethical citizenship and sustainable investments, stretching from Compliance Management, Integrity Management, Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) to Corporate Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG).
International Development consultancy is a vast industry focusing on global health, water and sanitation, poverty alleviation, environmental management, urbanization, governance, and public policy, CSR, to Corporate Sustainability Management, and philanthropy.
The scales of intervention vary from village-based projects to country-wide government programs.
Luxburry Strategy Inc. collaborates with country partners, government-sponsored development assistance agencies, non-governmental service delivery organizations (NGOs), community-based organizations (CBOs), and philanthropies to design, implement and evaluate projects that promote sustainability in resilient societies.
Specifically, our work aims to build public sector capacity connected to governance, inclusive growth, and policy innovation. Moreover, we help business corporations to design CSR schemes in Developing Countries and plan strategic social interventions within corporate-based foundations.
We help NGOs and applied research institutes plan and assess the societal impact of their research program or social service-provision project.
Luxburry Strategies Inc.’s international Development clients are:
- Multilateral Development Cooperation Agencies
- Bilateral Development Assistance Agencies (ODA)
- National Governments
- Local Authorities
- Service-delivery NGOs
- Business Corporations/Corporate-based Foundations
- Applied Research Institutes (Academia)
As a consultancy with professional expertise in International Development, our International Development services portfolio includes the following:
- Policy Capacity Building
- Corporate Social Impact Planning
- Development Projects & Impact Assessment
- Societal Impact Advisory for Academics
Societal Impact Advisory for Academics
We support applied research institutes, academic institutions, and individual scholars in pre-assessing the societal impact of their research projects for grant applications. We accompany universities, in their efforts to develop a strategic approach framework for societal engagement. We develop and identify tools and resources on behalf of scholars and research institutes for impact planning, evidence gathering, communication to non-academic audiences, and community engagement. We provide support in the preparation for internal and external assessment submission such as REF 2021 (UK), or other similar national systems of research evaluation.
Policy capacity building
We help public sector leaders and government units in developing countries to design, build and manage policy innovation and governance instruments in a variety of sectors such as subnational economic development strategies, equity and inclusive growth, sustainable urbanization and SDGs implementation, network governance and decentralization policy.
Corporate Social Impact Planning
We help business corporations successfully design and build high-impact, sustainable social interventions, and improve their performance in Integrity Management. We provide business leaders with the critical tools and partnership network they need to deliver on CSR, engage with ESG, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI), and ultimately contribute to Sustainability Due Diligence with confidence.
Development Projects & Impact Assessment
We provide support in formulating Development Projects aimed at alleviating poverty, achieving clean energy and low-carbon emissions, climate adaptation, community resilience, water and sanitation, informal settlements, and youth development. We also provide impact evaluation services.
