Corporate Social Responsibility and Sustainable Development Goals

Corporate Social Responsibility 1
Corporate Governance, ethics and corporate social responsibility
Sustainable development goals number 2: No hunger
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Corporate Social Responsibility 2
Table of Contents Page No.
1.0 Introduction
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2.0 Selected Goal: Goal Number 2: Zero Hunger ..........................................................................5
3.0 United Nations Corporate Governance ................................................................6
3.1 Governance Structure .................................................................................... 6
3.2 Non-Executive directors.................................................................................7
3.3 Executive directors........................................................................................7
3.4 Sub committees........................................................................................... 8
3.5 Stakeholder map and Relationships.................................................................. 8
5.0 PRME Principles..........................................................................................9
5.1 Purpose................................................................................................ 10
5.2 Values.....................................................................................................10
5.3 Methods.................................................................................................. 10
5.4 Research................................................................................................ 11
5.5 Partnerships............................................................................................. 12
5.6 Dialogue and Debating...................................................................................12
6.0 Recommendations.......................................................................................12

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Executive summary
This report discusses ethical corporate governance issues of the United Nations. Sustainability
involves the concentration long term society benefits at the expense of short term gains. The
United Nations created the Sustainable Development Goals with the objective of making the
world a better place for human living. This report focuses on MDG goal number 2: Zero hunger,
a resolution of the United Nations to have world free from hunger by 2030. Education
stakeholders also established Responsible Management of Education Principles that seeks to
align education with global initiatives such as the SDGs.

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1.0 Introduction
The United Nations, founded in 1945 with the primary responsibility of ensuring peace
and security internationally. The organization currently consists of 193 member countries and
has expanded its roles beyond security. Sustainability Development Goals (SDG’s) are goals of
the united nation born in 2012 during a conference held in Rio de Janeiro to discuss sustainable
development. The aim of the conference was to develop universal goals that would tackle
environmental, political and economic problems facing the world ( Barbier, 2014). The
convocation agreed to universally tackle 17 priority challenges to ensure they are rooted out by
2030. These goals include fighting poverty, eliminating hunger, assuring affordable health,
quality education, promoting accessibility to clean water among others (Colglazier, 2015). This
report focuses on SDG 2: Zero hunger, a goal that focuses on ensuring that the plight of hunger
is eliminated worldwide.
To achieve SDG’s there is need for individuals, societies, organizations, governments,
and the world at large to adhere to ethics and sustainability principles (Collins, 2012). This
involves focusing on long term sustainable benefits instead of short term benefits. The principles
of Responsible Management of Education (PRME), a UN supported initiative that promotes
sustainability in education by enhancing knowledge of students and the society at large on SDGs,
ethics, and corporate governance. In addition to discussing hunger, the report goes ahead to
highlight and the governance structure of the United Nations in detail.