SDG Network - This Practice is linked to all 17 SDGs and 79 goals
Description
The Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation (Embrapa) is linked to the Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Supply of Brazil. Since 1973, we are a technology innovation company focused on the development of a Brazilian model of tropical agriculture and sustainable livestock farming. We are about 9500 employees, 42 decentralized units and 7 centralized units. In 2017, a collaborative network of co-creative work, the SDG Network, was created as a good organizational management practice to organize internal intelligence to meet the challenges of Agenda 2030, which highlighted the potential for innovation and business for 17 SDGs.
Nowadays, we are more than 800 Embrapa researchers connected by the SDG Network, which consists of forming and organizing a high performance team in working groups in all 47 units of Embrapa and reorganizing it by co-creation, collective construction processes, focused on rapid response outcomes in SDG learning communities. Each co-ordination process defined by a coordinating group covenants and reorganizes the competencies accessed from this high-performance team in thematic communities, which are monitored to produce integrated results that support strategic decision making. The involvement with the SDG Network is voluntary because it is characterized in the production of quick answers, but under control of points of the Units and representatives of the respective managers of the Unit. The co-creation process is based on the PGMacro method, which uses the Pra-Ver-Judge-Act to develop the perception of ODS objectives and indicators, supporting the improvement of solutions available in company information systems, publications and technical reports .<br />
The SDG Network can help support decision makers and can be replicated to other institutions. In addition, the SDG Network supports the cultural change of the organization needed to implement Agenda 2030 as a guideline for strategic plans.<br />
The first result of the ODS Network was the identification of 600 contributions to meet 79 goals of the 17 ODS and consequent innovation and business potential related to Agenda 2030.
Embrapa envisaged in Agenda 2030 an opportunity to be accountable to Brazilian society about how it contributes to the sustainable development of Brazil and the world, using an agreed language among 193 countries, facilitating the dissemination and impact of the assets generated in the institution.
The Executive Board created in 2016 an ODS Working Group that proposed in 2017 the creation of the ODS Embrapa Network to allow the involvement of all employees of the 47 central and decentralized units to respond as the company contributes. to the 79 targets selected by the ODS WG of 17 ODS of Agenda 2030.
According to the co-creation method PGMacro, planning and collaborative management of Macroeducation, used to compose the ODS Network, a high-performance team was formed to act in the co-generation of network results. The ODS Network was conceived on three pillars: 1) training of teams at various levels - ODS WG - Coordination - WG ODS UD - Editors / Authors; 2) Virtual workspace organization and communication - Videoconferences and Whatsapp groups; 3) production focused on rapid response outcomes - prospective studies.
Working Groups were organized in all 47 Central and Decentralized Units and reorganized into Learning Communities in the ODS Network.
For each co-creation process defined by a co-ordinating group, the co-creation process, the expected result and the form of delivery through videoconferences are agreed upon; and then reorganize the competencies accessed in the Thematic Communities monitored by the Working Group Editor to produce results integrated into various ODSs and publishable in technical notes or publications.
The preparation of the ODS Collection of 18 e-books in six months was the first result of this good organizational management practice to demonstrate how Embrapa can effectively contribute to the achievement of 79 goals, representing 47% of the total - https: // www. embrapa.br/development-sustainable options.
Today, the ODS Embrapa Network continues to act in a corporate manner in the internalisation and internalization of ODS, subsidizing the development of good practices of implementation and cooperation at the various management levels: strategic, tactical and operational.
The process of improving network indicators is continuous, according to PGMacro, who are individuals from all the Units, agility and objectivity of the reach of the contributions to the objectives of the ODS. It is hoped to improve them and influence strategic planning and cooperation at all levels: international, national, regional, state, municipal and local (chains and producer groups).
A good example is the ODS Collection launched in April 2018. There are 18 e-books written in 6 months by 72 technical editors, specialists in SDG, and has 1408 pages with approximately 600 Embrapa contributions to achieve 79 goals of 17 ODS and its relation with the dimensions People, Planet, Peace, Partnership and Prosperity. They facilitate accountability to society about Embrapa's role in fulfilling Agenda 2030, as well as its stakeholders - farmers, family farmers, ministries, private and public companies, federal, municipal and state governments that can access the technical and contact our researches to expand agreements and partnerships to implement technological solutions according to each context and need. The e-books are available on the Embrapa portal (https://www.embrapa.br/development-sustainability-ods).
In addition to 16 specialists from the SDG Network participate in the nationalization of SDG goals with emphasis on sustainable rural development, available at the link: http://repositorio.ipea.gov.br/bitstream/11058/8636/1/Agenda%202030%20O…% A number of other co-creation and organizational learning processes have been carried out in the short term to meet external demands such as:
1) IBGE, Ministry of Agriculture and Embrapa- Organized and formalized partnership for the development of actions related to the theme of gender in agriculture (ODS 5), according to Official Journal of the Union n. 178/2018 - Section 3, p. 109.
2) FAO and Ministry of the Environment - Technical Note with the development of indicators to monitor agro-environmental policies. Embrapa prioritized ODS 2, for the leading role in relation to agriculture and interdependence of this ODS with the others, pointing out 132 potential indicators for ODS 2 with the participation of 20 Decentralized Units;
3) Ministry of Planning - Technical Note with the mapping of public policies reported in e-books, with the participation of 19 researchers and 8 Units;
5) SEGOV - SDG Brazil Award - Among the 23 different practices submitted by the Units, three were selected by the ODS WG to compete in the category Teaching, Research and Extension Institutions. Being that the Social Technology Underground Dam: promoting the access and uses of water in the Brazilian Semiarid was among the 10 finalists;
7) UN / OCB System / MAPA / EMBRAPA - Technical Report sent with the results of the International Workshop on Cooperativism and ODS: Community Force for the Eradication of Hunger and Poverty (27-29 August 2018). Embrapa contributed with the application of the PGMacro methodology to organize interviews and workshops on the contributions of cooperatives from African and South American continents to the elaboration of an Implementation Plan.
The SDG Network enables the dissemination of solutions and actions for the internalization and internalization of Agenda 2030 as a strategy to strengthen the ODS theme in organizational culture.
As an organizational management tool, the SDG Network is replicable for other contexts and companies and presents itself as an organizational resilience factor since it organizes intelligence to respond rapidly to new challenges with very low cost approaches to favor the use of technology geographic distances and stimulating dialogue on the subject in question.
The network has helped to expand the way we view and monitor practices, broadening the effect beyond SDG 2, which addresses sustainable agriculture and encourages cooperation between parties with new common interests (Goal 17.17).
HAMMES, V. S.; ARZABE, C. Inteligência coletiva para o alcance da sustentabilidade: Macroeducação, um método com ênfase na colaboração. Anais do XI Congresso Nacional de Excelência em Gestão, Rio de Janeiro, p. 1- 14. 2015.
ARZABE, C; HAMMES, V. S. O caráter multidimensional da gestão ambiental na pesquisa agropecuária. Anais do 4° Seminário Brasileiro de Gestão Ambiental na Agropecuária, p. 61-66, Embrapa Uva e Vinho, Bento Gonçalves, 2014.
The SDG Network is a collaborative working network (RTC), good SDG replicable practice to quickly access and organize the collective intelligence of the company, which in the case of Embrapa is composed of more than 3 thousand researchers of 47 units (product, services, eco (in all biomes) distributed throughout the national territory, through the production of results that respond to governmental demands and institutionalization of Embrapa's efforts to internalize and internalize the Sustainable Development Objectives (SDG) by fostering intra- and inter-institutional partnerships.<br />
The relevance of the SDG Network is the qualified rapid response capability over the entire installed potential of Embrapa to support decision making and support partners and implementers on issues related to Brazilian rurality. SDG NETWORK Embrapa - only after internalization in 2020 will be available for participation from external partners.<br />
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SDG Network demonstrates how the collaborative and systemic work of co-creation can instrumentalize institutional management and subsidize decision-making in face of the challenges of having an impact on the 17 SDGs.
https://www.embrapa.br/objetivos-de-desenvolvimento-sustentavel-ods
The high-performance team organization has a variable cost related to the need for continuous on-site training once a year. The intention is that virtual work information technology reduces the cost of production and knowledge management.
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| Name | Description |
|---|---|
| 14.1 | By 2025, prevent and significantly reduce marine pollution of all kinds, in particular from land-based activities, including marine debris and nutrient pollution |
| 14.2 | By 2020, sustainably manage and protect marine and coastal ecosystems to avoid significant adverse impacts, including by strengthening their resilience, and take action for their restoration in order to achieve healthy and productive oceans |
| 14.4 | By 2020, effectively regulate harvesting and end overfishing, illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing and destructive fishing practices and implement science-based management plans, in order to restore fish stocks in the shortest time feasible, at least to levels that can produce maximum sustainable yield as determined by their biological characteristics |
| 14.5 | By 2020, conserve at least 10 per cent of coastal and marine areas, consistent with national and international law and based on the best available scientific information |
| 14.7 | By 2030, increase the economic benefits to Small Island developing States and least developed countries from the sustainable use of marine resources, including through sustainable management of fisheries, aquaculture and tourism |
| 14.a | Increase scientific knowledge, develop research capacity and transfer marine technology, taking into account the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission Criteria and Guidelines on the Transfer of Marine Technology, in order to improve ocean health and to enhance the contribution of marine biodiversity to the development of developing countries, in particular small island developing States and least developed countries |
| 14.b | Provide access for small-scale artisanal fishers to marine resources and markets |
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Valeria Hammes, SDG Network