Organisation for PWD: framing a CSR approach line with the SDG’s, creating numerous regional initiatives towards inclusion and deinstitutionalisation.

Thanks to the CSR approach that was supported through various meetings and a strategy, a lot of projects and initiatives have seen the light and are in line with various SDG’s, therefore contributing to their implementation. The strategy relied on three pillars: Economical: how we can make sure tomorrow’s resources are mixed, meaning how the CSR model can contribute to having a reflexion on social entrepreneurship instead of relying solely on public funding. Environmental: good practices within the facilities which are respectful and virtuous. For example, the first large project was about food with new contracts for short circuit, waste management, low carbon footprint with hybrid cars. Social: how to move from social to societal utility, how facilities welcome people losing their autonomy. Following the CSR strategy, 72 initiatives have emerged in the region: 32 environment, 22 social, 19 economical. They are available on a map, but a new objective for 2021 is to work on a barometer. Some results from the societal pillar: The aims of this pillar are to allow access to inclusive housing, encourage access to education, training, and employment, ease access to digital, develop empowerment, create, and get involved in plural spaces. -Résidence RIVES – Résidence Intergénérationnel de Vie Eco citoyenne et Solidaire/Intergenerational residency for eco citizenship and united life. It is an inclusive housing, with 74 social housing including 19 for elderlies or PWD promoting peaceful coexistence. It allows access to a chosen adapted home and eases participating in civic life. It results from a multi-stake partnership with Lille city council, CCAS, Génération&Culture, APF, ASRL, SIA Habitat. It contributes to SDG 1, 9, 10, 11, 17. -Le Dispositif Emploi Accompagné Nord (DEA) – Northern Support Employement Scheme It is a scheme that eases access to employment, access to rights and care, supports smoothness in one’s life path, and builds inclusive employment. It brings together a large consortium of partners. It gives the right for PWD to be supported in their carrier. It contributes to SDG’s 1, 4, 8, 10, 17. -TechLab d’APF France handicap Is a center of Disability and New technologies expertise, to ease access to digital for PWD in order to support them in their daily lives. It promotes access to rights and health care. This centre evaluates the potential of new technologies and products which have abilities to compensate a disability or sensorial deficit. It aims at making as many people as possible aware of those technologies by informing and training helpers and beneficiaries. It supports the emergence of an inclusive society by collaborating with researchers and industrials to make sure the needs of PWD are included from the design stage. It aims to be the preferred contact from any person or entity looking for innovative accessibility solutions or looking to deepen their knowledge of digital use for PWD. This initiative contributes to SDG 3, 9, 10, 17. Some results from the environmental pillar: The aim of this pillar is to lower the organisation’s carbon footprint by questioning its catering system, mobilities, infrastructures and investing largely in digital. -Fight against food waste in Les Salines residency: the catering team along with the users put actions to reduce waste, favour short circuits in environmental concern. Contributes to SDG 2 and 12. -Adult pole of Valenciennes: training and raising awareness for the use of compost in the facility’s garden. Contributes to SDG 12. -Shared garden in Noeux-les-Mines residency: fight against isolation, exchange of knowledge and allow supported beneficiaries to participate in the neighbourhood’s life. Contributes to SDG 3 and 12. -Build a wind turbine in the Espace residency: to be autonomous in clean energy by building almost entirely the wind turbine by the residents themselves. Crowdfunding. Contributes to SDG 7, 9, 11, and 12. Results for the economic pillar: The aim is to successfully mix incoming resources by investing widely in social and solidarity economy or functionality economy. Promote circular and local economy, develop new vacancies in some facilities. -« Au paradis des fringues », a second-hand shop by the Oise delegation. Promote an economy model aiming at producing sustainable goods and services by limiting consumption and resource waste. This second-hand shop sells clothes for adults and children at low cost once a week thanks to donations and volunteers. The sells are made by both PWD and valid, contributing to SDG 8, 12. -Insect farm in Calais ESAT, to change eating habits in line with food norms. A new work aera for PWD. A partnership with an urban farm aiming at integrating insect proteins sustainably into our food diet. Contributes to SDG 2, 3, 8, 12, 17. Other initiatives are for instance the production of cosmetics, community houses and areas, shared gardens with food waste systems, some second-hand shops, a health app for remote consultancies. All of which are conducted by and for PWD along with non-disabled persons. These initiatives overall only had positive outcomes and few spillovers. The only negative impact would be that the regional institution responsible for health has difficulties recognising the seriousness of the approach. It has a hard time understanding that what is good for PWD is good for an aging society. In their quality evaluations, they do not look at CSR indicators but are centered on a solely medical perspective. However, in order to move towards an inclusive society, there is a need to translate the impacts of any approach.