SDG 1 NO POVERTY TARGETS TO WHICH DANONE CONTRIBUTES
- By 2030, reduce by at least half the proportion of men, women and children of all ages who suffer
from any form of poverty, as defined by each country.
- By 2030, ensure that all women and men, particularly the poor and vulnerable, have equal rights to
economic resources and access to basic services, land ownership, control over land and other
property, inheritance, natural resources, and new technologies and financial services appropriate to
their needs, including microfinance.
- By 2030, build the resilience of the poor and vulnerable and reduce their exposure to and
vulnerability to extreme weather events and other economic, social and environmental shocks and
disasters.
→ Availability of goods and services for low-income people
→ Earnings, wages and benefits
→ Economic development in high priority areas
→ Access to quality basic health services
Danone is committed to continuing to invent innovative ways to foster inclusive growth for vulnerable
partners in its value chain around the world, including farmers, street vendors and waste pickers.
Danone will continue to build sustainable solutions for access to nutrition and clean water for low-
income communities. As it steps up its efforts, the company will maximize the impact of its social
innovation funds, starting with Danone Communities, the Danone Ecosystem Fund and the Livelihoods
Funds.
EXAMPLES OF DANONE INITIATIVES :
Danone Communities: "Grameen Danone", fighting poverty and malnutrition in Bangladesh
Danone Communities: Drinkwell - Bringing clean water to the most densely populated areas in
Bangladesh
La Laiterie du Berger - When sustainable social impact and economic success go hand in hand!
Danone Ecosystem Fund: 'Madre Tierra', a regenerative agriculture project with Mexican strawberry
farmers
Carbon Livelihoods Fund: Restoring biodiversity in the Araku region for coffee and food crops: the
journey of 40,000 farmers in India
SDG 2 HUNGER 0 Danone
Danone is committed to positively impacting health and helping to address malnutrition
Through its Nutriplanet program, Danone seeks to better understand public health issues at local and
global levels, with the aim of defining strategies to encourage healthy dietary choices and developing
appropriate solutions and products. The company has a dedicated division, the Specialized Nutrition
Division (which includes the Infant Nutrition and Medical Nutrition businesses), as well as a specific
approach to access to nutrition.
Fortified products for children in emerging countries:
The Nutriplanet program highlights the nutrient deficiencies that can exist in certain emerging
countries (mainly in Africa). Awareness of these deficiencies has led to the development of fortified
dairy products for children and women, such as Phosphatine in Africa, FanXtra in Ghana, Danino in
Algeria, Nutriday in South Africa, Jibi Vanille in Morocco and Danonino in Argentina.
Access to affordable food:
Danone is banking on social entrepreneurship as a vehicle for creating solutions to bring nutrition to
low-income populations. The company is learning from the experience of social innovation funds, in
particular Danone Communities. Danone Communities is an incubator for businesses that provide
solutions to low-income populations in terms of access to drinking water and reducing chronic
malnutrition. Since 2006, Danone Communities has participated in the financing of 12 social
enterprises working on nutrition and access to water in Bangladesh, Cambodia, China, France, Haiti,
India, Kenya, Madagascar, Mexico, Nigeria, Rwanda, Senegal, Tanzania, Uganda and Zimbabwe.
EXAMPLES OF DANONE INITIATIVES
- Danone Communities: "Grameen Danone", fighting poverty and malnutrition in Bangladesh
- Danone Communities: Drinkwell - Bringing clean water to the most densely populated areas
of Bangladesh
- La Laiterie du Berger - When sustainable social impact and economic success go hand in
hand!
- Livelihoods Carbon Fund: Restoring Araku Biodiversity for Coffee and Food Forests: The
Journey of 40,000 Farmers in India
- Danone Ecosystem Fund: 'Madre Tierra', a regenerative agriculture project with Mexican
strawberry farmers
- Danone Ecosystem Fund: 'Best Once Care', helping cancer patients with adapted nutrition in
the Netherlands
- Science-based targets for water management in almond farming
SDG 3 GOOD HEALTH AND WELL-BEING DANONE
SDG 3 TARGETS TO WHICH DANONE CONTRIBUTES :
By 2030, eliminate preventable newborn and under-five child deaths, with all countries aiming to
reduce neonatal mortality to no more than 12 per 1,000 live births and under-five child mortality to
no more than 25 per 1,000 live births.
By 2030, reduce by one-third, through prevention and treatment, the rate of premature mortality
from non-communicable diseases and promote mental health and well-being.
Ensure that everyone has access to universal health coverage, including financial risk protection and
access to quality essential health services and safe, effective, quality and affordable essential
medicines and vaccines.
→ Contribute to access to healthcare around the world through products, services and business
activities
→ Ensuring health and safety in the workplace, and ensuring the provision of benefits to employees
- Better consumption: to promote healthy eating practices: by offering better products to our
consumers and encouraging them to make better choices, we help promote better
consumption practices.
EXAMPLES OF DANONE INITIATIVES :
- Alimentando el Cambio: empowering children to improve their eating habits in Spain
- Fueling progress in South Africa through product fortification
- Yogurdrinas: Yogurt for a Smile
- From pasture to bottle: 'Track & Connect' unveils the journey of our infant milks
- AQUA - Committed Brand
- Danone Communities: 'Grameen Danone', Fighting malnutrition in Bangladesh
- Danone Communities : Drinkwell - Bringing clean drinking water to the densest areas of
Bangladesh
- La Laiterie du Berger - When sustainable social impact and economic success go hand in hand!
SDG 4 QUALITY EDUCATION
As you know, access to education, while improving, remains highly unequal across the world, and this
has been strongly reinforced in the current pandemic. In 2000, the United Nations Millennium
Development Goals identified simply getting students to class as one of the major challenges in
education.
At that time, almost one in five children did not go to school. As a result of the actions taken, the
number of out-of-school children has been cut in half and 90% of children are now in school
worldwide.
Google is convinced for years that technologies could help children in their studies, for access to books
as an example, but also for the teachers to create courses or provide access to classrooms for children
who cannot attend school. Google's approach to education is to identify the most promising
nonprofits in order to provide them with the philanthropic
resources, collaborators and products they need to close the gap in terms of education.
It is in this context that the company created Google Workspace for Education to promote learning
for all. This tool provides a selection of training courses for teachers, students and school leaders to
improve learning in primary, secondary and higher education.
It is a set of free Google tools and services designed specifically for schools and home education
organisations. It is available to all eligible educational institutions.
The use of this platform in the classroom will enable students to develop a variety of skills that will be
useful in the completion of their school work. The skills they develop will be highly sought(soat) after
by their future employers. Students will be able to use their skills in teamwork, collaboration, solution
finding, efficiency, creativity and much more. However, for those who do not have access to
technology, the current disparities in learning only get worse.
According to Sundar Pichai, Google's chief executive, "Technology alone will not improve education,
but it can play a major role in future progress."
So we can notice that at the beginning it was more philanthropic initiatives, because Google realizes
that the wellbeing of its employees and labor force is very important and matters in order to become
more efficient and have a better working place image. However, it is harder now to say that those
initiatives are only philanthropic but take more and more part into the core business of Google. Thanks
to realizing initiatives like the work plans and offering periodic days off called “reset” days, and
Pareto's law in its work method, we can assert that Google took a turn in improving employee’s health
and needs at the heart of its business.
Conclusion and recommendations
To conclude, all Google employees feel good at work. Indeed, they do not feel any particular stress
because Google does everything possible to ensure the well-being of its employees in all aspects,
whether it is health, well-being or education.
Google is perfectly in control of the health and well-being of its employees by making it a priority, but
the employees must have an irreproachable behavior and be 100% at the service of the company.
It also has a strong interest in technology-based education. Unfortunately, a part of the world, the
poorest, is deprived of this advancement.
In addition, Google remains very intrusive in the private lives of its employees, for example by offering
financial advisors for their employees to facilitate their financial well-being, whether it is recognized
retirement savings plans, planning services or financial advisors. As a result, it is difficult to separate
work life from personal life.
So, we can ask ourselves if Google is formatting their employees in such a way that they stay at home
as long as possible and not leave the company.
SDG 5 GENDER EQUALITY
The 17 Sustainable Development Goals and their 169 targets form the core of the 2030 Agenda. They
cover all the issues of sustainable development such as climate, biodiversity, energy, water, but also
poverty, gender equality, economic prosperity or peace, agriculture, education...
The sustainable development goals, by their ambitious and cross-cutting nature, raise many issues for
the coming years:
- Ensuring a realistic assessment of the situation, then implementing a rigorous monitoring of the
progress made and identifying areas for improvement.
- Create a dynamic for the appropriation of sustainable development objectives by the territories, civil
society, the private sector and citizens.
- Foster a context of cooperation: disseminate good practices and build a framework for cooperation
between actors to carry out joint actions.
3.4: By 2030, reduce by one third, through prevention and treatment, the rate of premature mortality
from non-communicable diseases and promote mental health and well-being
4.3: By 2030, ensure that all women and men have equal access to affordable quality technical,
vocational and tertiary education, including university education
Gender equality is when people of all genders have equal rights, responsibilities and opportunities. So
this concerns everybody in the society, and it’s also a human right. Nowadays Women and girls,
everywhere in the world, must have equal rights compared to men and boys. This is the only way for
them to be able to live free of any violence or any discrimination. It can be at work, salary inequality,
violence, discriminations etc ... in both private or public spheres.
● In 18 countries, husbands can legally prevent their wives from working
● 49 countries don’t have laws protecting women from domestic violence.
● 19% of women and girls have experienced physical and/ or sexual violence by they own
partner in the past 12 months.
● Only 52% of women married or in a union freely make their own decisions about sexual
relations, contraceptive use and health care.
L’Oréal
-In 2019, women represented 54% of L’Oréal’s leadership positions.
-For the fourth consecutive year, L’Oréal has been recognised in Bloomberg’s 2021 GenderEquality
Index (GEI) → based on criteria including female leadership and talent pipeline, gender pay parity,
inclusive culture and sexual harassment policies.
-L’Oréal has also recently been recognised by European Women on Boards among the 15 Top
companies out of STOXX Euro 600, as well as ranked 1st by Humpact Emploi France 2020, in the gender
equality category. Last year, Equileap ranked L’Oréal in the top 5 of its ranking which assesses the
degree of gender equality of more than 3,500 listed companies.
SDG 6 CLEAN WATER AND SANITATION
Water scarcity affects more than 40 (forty) percent of the global population and is projected
to rise according to the ONU.
More than 1,7 billion live next to river basins where water use exceeds water availability
Each day, nearly 1,000 children die due to preventable water and sanitation-related diarrheal
diseases and that more than 80% (eighty) of the wastewater resulting from human activities is
discharged into rivers or the sea without any depollution always according to the ONU. Therefore,
there is a problem with access to water but also a sanitary problem with this resource. Since 1990 and
the consideration of this aspect there has been progress on this issue. For example, between 1990
and 2015, the proportion of the global population using an improved drinking water source has
increased from 76 (seventy-six) per cent to 90 (ninety) per cent. However, progress among the lowest-
performing countries has been insufficient to achieve universal coverage by 2030. In 2018, 60 percent
of 172 (one hundred seventy-two) countries reported very low, low and medium-low levels of
implementation of integrated water resources management and were unlikely to meet the
implementation target by 2030. Moreover, the adverse effects of climate change can decrease the
extent of freshwater bodies, thereby worsening ecosystems and livelihoods. More recently, with the
pandemic, the UN launched a response plan against COVID-19 by facilitating access to running water
and handwashing in informal settlements. Finally, UNICEF is appealing for funds and support to
provide more children, basic water, sanitation and hygiene facilities. There were many actions in order
to meet this sustainable goal but it’s still not enough.
COCA COLA:
-The Coca-Cola Foundation helps millions on the continent with access to clean water
-Six million Africans in more than 4 000 communities across 41 countries have gained improved access
to clean water thanks to the work of The Coca-Cola Foundation in a programme called the Replenish
Africa Initiative (RAIN).
-RAIN improves community access to water and sanitation while promoting better hygiene, for
positive impacts on health and development. This lowers the risk of disease and the dignity, privacy
and safety of communities, especially vulnerable women and children, is ensured. Education and
training on improved hygiene behaviours and handwashing complement water access and sanitation
to promote healthier living.
-The programme was launched in 2009 to help countries across Africa achieve the United Nations’
Sustainable Development Goals on clean water and sanitation (SDG 6).
-The programme’s success in reaching six million people is the result of a collective effort from more
than 300 international and local public, private and civil society partners.
-Coca-Cola Beverages Africa CEO Jacques Vermeulen said that as the largest Coke bottler on the
continent, the company was especially pleased by the success of these partnerships in providing clean
water to communities.
-“By working together we achieve so much more than we could individually,” said Vermeulen.
SDG 7: AFFORDABLE AND CLEAN ENERGY
Affordable and clean energy and SG8 decent work and economic growth. We’re going to see how the
company Danone tries to respect those SDGs. We're going to see with different examples the company
strategy to use affordable and clean energy and respect decent work to have economic growth.
SDG7 is affordable and clean energy. The goal of this SDG is to ensure access to affordable, reliable,
sustainable and modern energy for all. In fact, this goal encourages alternative energy sources such as
renewable energy. By 2030, the objective is to achieve universal access to affordable electricity by
investing in clean energy sources such as solar, wind and thermal.
SDG 8 is decent work and economic growth. The goal is to increase labour productivity, reducing the
unemployment rate, especially for young people and women, and improving access to financial
services and benefits are essential components of sustained and inclusive economic growth. Forced
labour, child labour and modern slavery are still a reality and poverty eradication is only possible
through stable and well-paid jobs.
IKEA
- In 2015, IKEA Home Solar was launched by the IKEA Retail business of Ingka Group, the IKEA
franchisee in many markets. Today Home Solar is offered to customers in seven markets. By 2025, the
aim is to make it available across 30 markets.
-we are collaborating with various business partners in the energy field.
SDG 8: DECENT WORK AND ECONOMIC GROWTH
“We have words for racism and sexism, but wealth discrimination isn’t fully recognized. It is a bias in
favor of the wealthy and against labour, the environment and the community. Concern for the public
good must become the animating force of our economic order”. Marjorie Kelly, American journalist.
Purpose. - In 2019, 22% of the world’s youth were not engaged in either education, employment or
training. - The global unemployment rate is 7,7% - Men earn 12,5% more than women in 40 out of 45
countries with data.
-In 2019, 22 percent of the world’s young people were not in employment, education or training
(NEET), a figure that has hardly changed since 2005. o In 2018, the rate of growth of global real GDP
per capita was 2 per cent. In addition, the rate for least developed countries was 4.5 per cent in 2018,
less than the 7 per cent growth rate targeted in the 2030 Agenda. -After a brief interruption during
the global economic downturn of 2008–2009, labour productivity has continued to grow; in 2019, it
increased by 1.4 per cent from the previous year.
-Globally, 61 percent of workers were in informal employment in 2016. Globally, the income of
informal workers is estimated to fall by 60 per cent in the first months of the crisis.
-Data on average hourly earnings cast light on income inequality. In a global study conducted by the
International Labour Organization, a factor-weighted gender pay gap of 19 per cent in 2017 was
revealed.
DELL
● 8.1 sustain per capita economic growth in accordance with national circumstances, and in
particular at least 7% per annum GDP growth in the least-developed countries
● 8.2 achieve higher levels of productivity of economies through diversification, technological
upgrading and innovation, including through a focus on high value added and labor-intensive
sectors
● 8.3 promote development-oriented policies that support productive activities, decent job
creation, entrepreneurship, creativity and innovation, and encourage formalization and
growth of micro-, small- and medium-sized enterprises including through access to financial
services
● 8.4 improve progressively through 2030 global resource efficiency in consumption and
production, and endeavor to decouple economic growth from environmental degradation in
accordance with the 10-year framework of programs on sustainable consumption and
production with developed countries taking the lead
● 8.5 by 2030 achieve full and productive employment and decent work for all women and men,
including for young people and persons with disabilities, and equal pay for work of equal value
● 8.6 by 2020 substantially reduce the proportion of youth not in employment, education or
training
● 8.7 take immediate and effective measures to secure the prohibition and elimination of the
worst forms of child labor, eradicate forced labor, and by 2025 end child labor in all its forms
including recruitment and use of child soldiers
● 8.8 protect labor rights and promote safe and secure working environments of all workers,
including migrant workers, particularly women migrants, and those in precarious employment
● 8.9 by 2030 devise and implement policies to promote sustainable tourism which creates jobs,
promotes local culture and products
● 8.10 strengthen the capacity of domestic financial institutions to encourage and to expand
access to banking, insurance and financial services for all
● 8.a increase Aid for Trade support for developing countries, particularly LDCs, including
through the Enhanced Integrated Framework for LDCs
● 8.b by 2020 develop and operationalize a global strategy for youth employment and
implement
SDG 9 INDUSTRY INNOVATION AND INFRASTRUCTURE
Chanel.
- Collaborations with other companies (pochet group)
- New technical design for chanel n°5 (recycled glass)
- Integration into RE100
- Project towitch to 100% renewable electricity for all of its own activities by 2025
- solar panels
SDG 10 REDUCE INEQUALITIES
MCDONALD’S
McDonald’s values the contributions of its employees and strives to ensure that their financial and
educational needs are met. In the US, McDonald’s is enhancing employee benefits, offering
substantial wage increases and paid time-off. Across its company-owned restaurants, 90,000
employees will be eligible to receive these benefits, representing 10 percent of McDonald’s
restaurants nationwide. Moreover, McDonald’s education initiative, Archways to Education, will offer
free high school completion and college tuition assistance to around 750,000 employees at both
company-owned and franchised restaurants. Employees who are not native English speakers also have
the opportunity to take free English language classes.
P&G
Since 1976, P&G’s Supplier Diversity program in the United States has created economic
opportunities for underrepresented businesses such as minority-owned, women-owned, LGBT+,
veterans and people with disabilities. The program has since expanded globally, and the company has
partnered with organizations like UN Women and WeConnect to further ensure women
entrepreneurs in all regions are getting access to training, support and business opportunities. Since
2007, P&G spends more than $2 billion annually to help minority-owned businesses in the US. Due to
the company’s generous monetary contributions, P&G is a member of the Billion Dollar Roundtable,
a forum of companies spending more than $1 billion annually with diverse suppliers.
SDG 11 SUSTAINABLE AND COMMUNITIES
⇒ This case study presents the implementation of a sustainable urban development project in El
Salvador. This programme focuses on 884 (eight hundred eigthy four) urban slums in the metropolitan
area of San Salvador and the districts of Apopa coinciding with the five-year development plan of the
Republic of El Salvador. Indeed, prior to the intervention, the state did not use mechanisms to improve
the situation. In the absence of a property tax, it openly supported the
>What are the goals of this project ?
⇒ It is therefore to address these problems of inequality and urban priorities that this programme has
been set up. It is based on the development of three main operationswhich are
- - the establishment and deepening of a model of productive and sustainable urban living
spaces in order to improve the living conditions of those who need it most, by providing new
and improved houses financed by the public and private sectors.
- strengthening the value chain of the social housing construction industry by providing
products and services that are accessible to those with limited resources, thereby encouraging
the formation and participation of small and medium-sized enterprises
- and encouraging local economic development in the areas around the settlements, with a
focus on youth and women.
SDG 12 RESPONSIBLE CONSUMPTION AND PRODUCTION
We studied the program called Food security and nutrition for children and Salvadoran households
(SANNHOS). It takes place in Salvador. It began the 26 th of January 2015 and finished the 25th of May
2017.
Total programme budget: $4.2 million
The SDG Fund program takes a multi-sectorial and multidimensional approach, with inclusion and
participation of actors linked to food security and nutrition at different stages of the project cycle. It
supports the Government’s plan, “El Salvador Ahead.”
National partners: National and Local Government and Private Sector organizations. Higher Education
institutions and Non Profit Organizations.
The programme's objectives will be achieved by:
● Strengthening public policy and support for the joint construction of initiatives.
● Improving local production and import substitution, both of raw materials and finished
products.
● Increasing communities’ resilience to adapt to climate change, reducing vulnerabilities to food
production.
● Expanding local nutrition information systems
In conclusion, this project allowed many people to educate themselves about food nutrition and
health and about the importance of responsible production and consumption. First, it helped diversify
production with the creation of vegetable gardens and fruit orchards. And it also helped improve
environmental sustainability and climate change resilience, two major things. This initiative also
allowed the construction of 5 rainwater collection tanks, which is very useful and represents a great
progress for many families, and the initiative supported the creation of micro-enterprises in farm and
non-farm activities for more than 100 families. We can say that the initiatives were sustainable enough
to contribute towards achievement of the SDGs because at the start of the programme, 64% of
families suffered food insecurity, and by the end the rate dropped to 14%.
However, what might be useful would be to teach in every school of the country some basis about
nutrition, and what can be done to fight against food insecurity and how to produce in a more
responsible way. It is important to teach this to the future generations. Now it will be great to expand
the entire program to other areas of the country.
