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In 2016, Empanda joined the United Nations Global Compact, becoming a member of the GCNSA. This week is our 4th anniversary and it is time for us to report back! This milestone is an authentic opportunity for us to reflect on our membership so far, and our mission to align our business model with the 2030 Agenda and drive transformational change.
Here is our story – and also our commitment to the future:
Our start line – looking within:
We reviewed Empanda’s internal operations for positive and negative impacts on human rights, labour, our environment, and anti-corruption and made immediate improvements wherever possible.
We also started to engage all Empandas in our prioritisation of the Global Goals. We reached out to the Global Compact Network of South Africa and struck up a conversation with the awesome Achieng Ojwang about how we could work to align our business model to the delivery of the 2030 Agenda, bringing our core strength in transformational change and learning and development to the table. This was a conversation that bore fruit as we moved forward!
In 2017, our Empandas and our engagement committee elected that we should focus on the elimination of corruption, due to this being such a pressing concern within our South Africa. We wanted to combine this with a focus on Goal 4: Quality Education.
We decided to partner with the inspiring Kim Palmer and On the Ball College to run an internship for young ICT students. The self-branded ‘SHINING Pandas’ worked through a creative storytelling process to author and narrate video stories to motivate an end to corruption. Watch their 6 powerful and authentic stories here.
This initiative later led to us collaborating with the Daily Maverick on their incredible Business Against Corruption event in June 2019. Gerald Schreiner, we miss you, and your passion for the good.
In 2018 we reached out to the United Nations Global Compact in New York and began to partner with the amazing Alyssa Alicino and Invild Soerensen on an eLearning module to articulate the 2030 Agenda and the 17 Sustainable Development Goals.
Through this process and connection, we have deepened our understanding of what it takes for the private sector to contribute to a more sustainable future. We have continued to collaborate on further eLearning modules on the delivery of integrated health, environment and climate strategies, the respect of human rights by business, and ethical procurement decision making.
We are and continue to be grateful for this meaningful work, the kindness and professionalism of the partnership, and the privilege of collaborating with leading sustainability experts from across the world. Our learning modules are now translated into Spanish, French, Portuguese and Mandarin and available to UNGC members across 157 countries worldwide.
In 2019 we were given the opportunity to collaborate more deeply with the Global Compact Network South Africa and with the leadership, guidance, and wisdom of Nozipho January-Bardill and her Board. We worked with several of South Africa’s leading businesses to report back to the UN High Level Forum, in partnership with the South African Department for Performance, Monitoring and Evaluation.
The VNR report documents best practices, practical case studies, prioritisation strategies and delivery frameworks that are working to overcome South Africa’s greatest challenges to delivery of the 2030 Agenda.
This project gave us direct exposure to the incredible scale of work that many leading South African companies do – often in collaboration with the public sector, communities, and civil society. This initiative gave us lasting hope for our future, regardless of the challenges we face!
Take a look at the 2030 Visioning Videos below:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUp2AykDReJtGU0kb187R0Q
Special Empanda thanks and recognition go to the following companies and people for all that you taught us on the way, and for your insight and inspiration:
In 2020, we were privileged to support the graphic design and reporting for a visionary collaboration between the UNGC and DNV GL for the UN Ocean Conference 2020. Empanda’s contribution included practical guidance, an eLearning module, a reference paper for Blue Bonds, and a critical report containing 10 ambitions for sustainably harnessing the power of our Oceans.
This body of work is set to inspire policy makers worldwide to reboot our Oceans. It was our absolute pleasure to work with and learn from:
Erik Giercksky, Ignace Beguin, Mary Kate Currey, Bente Pretlove and Christina Hoysaeter. Thank you for the opportunity.
You can see the key report on the UNGC website here.
During 2020 we also connected with the Global Compact Africa Hub and the motivational Nkiruka Chiemelu, who is on a mission to enable young SDG innovators, drive gender equality initiatives, and offer effective insights and action on addressing the impact of Covid19.
We are excited about this initiative and the opportunity to do work that delivers benefit across our Africa.
The global pandemic has made 2020 a year disrupted. People -and our businesses- have had no option but to embrace transformation. Around us we see many negative impacts that need to be mitigated, but also much reflection – and a building energy for deeper action to work for a better future for people and our planet.
As we focus on refreshing our commitment and our alignment to the 2030 Agenda, we are deeply thankful to be a ‘going concern’! We are grateful to all the partners that have supported us, nurtured our understanding, and inspired us. We intend to continue to seek opportunity to partner on work that motivates for positive and ambitious change.
Going forward, our special focus will be to evolve our online learning platform and to enable partners that need virtual learning, leadership, change and content development services. We want to become a hub where creative content development and storytelling talent can congregate to support leaders, authors and thinkers who are passionate about meaningful transformation.
Our Global Goal Priorities are:
We have refined our sustainability offering and portfolio of services can be seen here. If you need support on your own sustainability mission, we would love to partner with you. Give us a shout!
Empanda is proud to have facilitated the deliver of the annual performance report for Old Mutual, in addition to developing case studies and animation work to describe progress on the delivery of the 2030 Agenda, in particular, action to deliver Goal 4 for Quality Education.
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Empanda is proud to have facilitated the 2019 Voluntary National Review of the South African private sector contribution to the delivery of the 2030 agenda. This contribution was input to the report back of the South African presidency to the United Nations. Empanda has also worked on other GCNSA initiatives including work to understand the impact of Covid19.
Empanda is proud to have supported the production of the annual report on risk, including the application of a new corporate risk management governance framework, and a refreshed sustainability model. We have also provided change management services to this client.
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Empanda is proud to support the United Nations Global Compact with over 70 content development projects. We deliver learning journey toolkits for the UNGC global Academy, hosted in over 160 countries world wide, producing engaging digital content that is translated into over 7 languages.
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Empanda is proud to have supported Massdiscounters (Game and DionWired) in their S/4HANA implementation.This is a ground-breaking retail transformation programme. We developed the programme branding (jump.), the initiative communications platform and an interactive tool for Change Impact Awareness
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The Transport and Urban Development Authority (TDA) for the City of Cape Town implemented SAP Asset Management. We delivered the change, communication and training for this initiative, as well as organisation design. Delivery included an interactive tool to communicate the Blueprint and eLearning for their new SAP Fiori handheld devices.
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Empanda is proud to continue to support Shoprite Checkers following the COR3 SAP Retail Programme. Shoprite was our first client, and we still provide change and communication services. We have placed over 50 consultants, who have delivered over 50,000 consulting days.
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Empanda is proud to support Nando’s in with change management services for a human resource management transformation programme. Services include organisational change management, organisational alignment, and the communication and engagement strategy.
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Empanda facilitated a peer lead journey for a group of subject matter experts who wanted to produce wellbeing eLearning Journeys. The initiative facilitated the content development process and taught authoring and instructional design techniques, enabling a route to market.
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We are proud to have delivered a series of annual programmes for Western Province Caterers. SMILE is a blended programme designed to both deliver learning competency and to lift employee motivation and engagement.
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Empanda is proud to have developed a course for the Parliamentary graduate programme. This ground breaking journey focuses on building democratic peer based leadership, with a full success management team positioned to support learning.
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The Shining Panda initiative brought together a syndicate of STEM students to develop stories that would motivate against corruption. The interns were stewarded through a full multimedia content development learning process to produce animations.
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We are proud to support Pick n Pay with eLearning content development including their induction programme, the trainee store manager programme, and a variety of other courses that help role and system understanding. We also provide visioning and change management services.
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We are proud to have supported homechoice with a blended onboarding, training and coaching platform eLearning series that is helping the rapid growth of their sales agent network. We have automated much of the recruitment process and host the solution on Juno, supported by our success management service.
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We are proud to have supported the Coop retail business with occupational health and safety training to ensure that all staff are fully aware of how to be safe under all circumstances. This deliverable set was provided in partnership with First Friday.
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