Corporate training, auditing and consulting
Through our partnership network we offer corporate workshops and training, impact auditing and bespoke consulting to financial services firms seeking to lead their organisations towards more sustainable finance.
We strongly believe that sustainable and responsible finance is shifting from a perceived constraint to sustainability as a business differentiator. We support our members with strategy, workshops and training to help them operate more sustainable fintech businesses. We organise corporate events for our members with guest speakers and help connect members to other relevant industry bodies that can assist with specific needs.
We also help member organisations to develop their corporate culture through employee volunteering. This enables employees and firms to align on values, with the organisation allowing their employees to allocate some of their working time and talents to causes that they are passionate about. Staff can typically pick their charity, record their volunteering time, add an activity to their calendars, post about the experience and share it on social media.
Leadership programme: Organisational culture and sustainability strategy
Familiarise, align and plan your management activities with the lastest thinking and trends around sustainability as a business opportunity. Understand your reporting and fiduciary responsibilities when entering new markets.
We help with executive training on SDGs, TCFDs, green finance strategy and more. Some of the topics we can provide expertise on include:
Employee engagement:
Values-driven workshops and programmes
Develop a values-driven organisational culture in order to attract and retain talent, improve engagement and improve team productivity.
Organisational values and culture are increasingly important to employees. Glassdoor and others offer candidates insight in to whether your organisation is true to its values or not. Get ahead of your competition by building a values-driven culture.
Green investment:
ESG and impact financial product design
Develop new financial instruments such as green bonds, carry out ESG analysis on existing products or develop new products with specific and measurable impact. Assess embedded ESG risk of a firm as part of your M&A activities.
Whether you wish to innovate toward the low-carbon economy, social impact or financial inclusion, we can support with expertise and insight.
Impact Auditing
When correctly implemented, sustainable policies and practices result not only a more resillient business but also improved brand image and stronger business relationships. However a major challenge is ensuring that the both the firm and its supply chain meets the standards to which they have committed.
A transparent, systematic and long-term approach is vital for any serious sustainability commitment. Evaluating and monitoring sustainability performance within your firm can be challenging but is necessary to establish progress.
Suppliers must also be held to account to the new standards and again, oversight is critical. Where a supplier is not compliant, this situation must be managed proactively and in a way in which you remain in control.
Fintech for Good is able to act as a partner that provides proactive oversight of your sustainability efforts. This allows companies to authentically back their sustainability claims and can also help unveil risks or breaches; involving an independent organisation to audit your business shows your ongoing commitment to realising your sustainability goals.
Online training resources
The following online training courses and MOOCs are provided by external parties, independent of Fintech for Good. If you are aware of a course that should be added to this list and isn't please get in touch with details.
Goal 1: No Poverty
End poverty in all its forms everywhere.
SDG one aims to eliminate extreme poverty (people living under $1.25/day) by 2030 and to reduce the number of men, women, and children living in poverty by at least half. It also strives to implement social protections and measures for all people, including increasing and ensuring equal economic and social access for all people and reducing the vulnerability of the poor to situations such as climate-related events and other shocks and disasters.
- Leiden University (SDG Partner Project): Political Economy of Institutions and development
- University of Taiwan (SDG Partner Project): Welfare and Rights of Youth
- University of Geneva: Children’s Human Rights: An Interdisciplinary Introduction
- University of Oslo: What Works: Promising Practices in International Development
- University of York: Improving Children’s Lives: Reducing Child Poverty and Inequality Around the World
- Harvard University: Child Protection: Children’s Rights in Theory and Practice
- University of Copenhagen: The Sustainable Development Goals – A global, transdisciplinary vision for the future
Goal 2: Zero hunger
End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture.
Goal two strives to end hunger and ensure access to safe and nutritious food for all people all year round by the year 2030. It also strives to end malnutrition, particularly for children under the age of five, adolescent girls, pregnant women, and older persons. It hopes to double the agriculture and incomes for small-scale farmers/producers, ensure sustainable and resilient food production systems, and maintain genetic diversity in seeds, plants, and animals.
Goal 3: Good health and well-being
Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages.
Goal 3 aims to significantly reduce the maternal mortality rate, end preventable deaths for newborns and children under five years of age, and end the disease epidemics for AIDs, malaria, tuberculosis, tropical diseases, hepatitis, water-borne diseases, and other communicable diseases. It also strives to reduce premature mortality from communicable diseases, strengthen prevention and treatment of substance abuse, and halve the number of deaths and injuries from traffic accidents. This goal also focuses on promoting global access to sexual and reproductive health services, achieving universal health coverage, and reducing the number of deaths from hazardous chemicals in air, water, and soil.
- Leiden University: (SDG Partner Project) De-mystifying Mindfulness
- University of Cape Town: Organ Donation: From Death to Life
- University of Copenhagen: Diabetes – the Essential Facts; An introduction to Global Health
- University of Geneva: Global Health at the Human-Animal-Ecosystem Interface
- University of Geneva: Ebola: vaincre ensemble!
- University of Geneva: In the footsteps of Zika…approaching the unknown
- University of Geneva: Global Health: an interdisciplinary overview
- University of Manchester: Water Supply and Sanitation Policy in Developing Countries Part 1: Understanding Complex Problems
- University of Manchester: Water Supply and Sanitation Policy in Developing Countries Part 2: Developing Effective Interventions
- Utrecht University: Ebola: Essential Knowledge for Healthcare professionals
- Harvard University: Child Protection: Children’s Rights in Theory and Practice
- University of Copenhagen: The Sustainable Development Goals – A global, transdisciplinary vision for the future
Goal 4: Quality education
Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all.
The first target of this goal is to ensure that all children complete free, equitable, and quality primary and secondary education. This goal also focuses on ensuring that all children have access to quality early childhood education and care, ensuring access affordable vocational training (including university) for all people, and increasing the number of youth and adults who have relevant skills for employment. The goal also strives to eliminate gender disparity in education, as well as a significant portion of illiteracy in youth and adults. It also hopes to ensure that all learners acquire knowledge and skills to promote sustainable development and to build education facilities that are safe and sensitive to all needs, including disabilities.
- University of Taiwan - Welfare and Rights of Youth
- McMaster University: Mindshift; Experimentation for Improvement
- University of Geneva: Children’s Human Rights: An Interdisciplinary Introduction
- Harvard University: Child Protection: Children’s Rights in Theory and Practices
- UNICEF: Social Norms, Social Change
- University of Copenha – A global, transdisciplinary vision for the future
Goal 5: Gender equality
Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls.
This goal will work to end global discrimination of women and girls, end all forms of violence against women and girls, and eliminate harmful practices against women and girls such as childhood marriage and female genital mutilation. It also strives to provide services for those doing unpaid care and domestic work, ensure full and effective participation of women at all political, economic, and public levels of decision-making, and ensure universal access to sexual and reproductive healthcare.
- University of Taiwan: Welfare and Rights of Youth
- University of Geneva: Children’s Human Rights: An Interdisciplinary Introduction
- Macquarie University: Big History – diversity and inclusion
- Harvard University: Child Protection: Children’s Rights in Theory and Practice
- Stanford University: International Women’s Health and Human Rights
- UNICEF: Social Norms, Social Change
- University of Copenhagen: A global, transdisciplinary vision for the future
Goal 6: Clean Water and Sanitation
Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all.
This goal hopes to provide equal access to safe and affordable drinking water for all people, as well as achieving adequate sanitation and hygiene for all. It strives to improve water quality through the reduction of pollution and increase water-use efficiency. Through this goal, they also hope to implement water resource management and increase the protection and restoration of water-related ecosystems.
- University of Geneva: Water Resources Management and Policy
- University of Geneva: Droit International de l’Eau Douce
- University of Geneva: Children’s Human Rights: An Interdisciplinary Introduction
- University of Geneva: Ecosystem Services: a Method of Sustainable Development
- University of Geneva: Global Health: An Interdisciplinary Overview
- University of Manchester: Water Supply and Sanitation Policy in Developing Countries Part 1: Understanding Complex Problems
- University of Manchester: Water Supply and Sanitation Policy in Developing Countries Part 2: Developing Effective Interventions
- Stanford University: International Women’s Health and Human Rights
- University of Copenhagen: A global, transdisciplinary vision for the future
Goal 7: Affordable and clean energy
Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all.
This goal strives to ensure that all people have access to affordable, reliable, modern energy source and increase the share of renewable energy resources. It also hopes to double the rate of improvement in energy efficiency through the enhancement of international cooperation in access to clean energy research and technology and through the expansion of infrastructure and technology.
Goal 8: Decent work and economic growth
Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all.
This goal focuses on sustaining per capita economic growth and growing gross domestic product in the least developed countries. It also strives to help countries achieve higher levels of economic productivity through diversity, technological upgrades, and more, as well as promoting development-oriented policies to support productive activities, decent job creation, entrepreneurship, creativity, and innovation. The goal also seeks to improve global resource efficiency in consumption and production, achieve full and productive employment and decent work for all, and reduce the number of youth not in employment, education, or training. Through this goal, we hope to eradicate forced labor, modern slavery, and human trafficking, as well as promote safe and secure work environments, protect labor rights, promote sustainable tourism, and strengthen the capacity of domestic financial institutions.
- University of Cape Town: Becoming a Changemaker: introduction to social innovation
- McMaster University: Finance for Everybody: Decisions
- McMaster University: Finance for Everybody: Markets
- McMaster University: Finance for Everybody: Value
- McMaster University: Finance for Everybody: Debt
- University of Copenhagen: A global, transdisciplinary vision for the future
Goal 9: Industry, innovation and infrastructure
Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation.
This goal strives to increase and improve infrastructure to support economic development and human well-being, as well as promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization. The goal focuses on increasing access to financial services for small-scale industrial enterprises, increasing use of clean technology and industrial processes, and increasing research, upgraded technologies, and innovation.
Goal 10: Reduced inequalities
Reduce inequality in and among countries.
This goal focuses on increasing and sustaining income growth of the bottom 40 percent of the population, as well as promoting global inclusion, ensuring equal opportunities and reducing inequalities in legislation and policies, and adopting policies that will promote equality and social protection. The goal also wants to improve regulation of and strengthen global financial markets, increase representation of developing countries in global decision-making processes, and facilitate migration and mobility of people that is safe, orderly, and responsible.
- Leiden University: Political Economy of Institutions and development
- University of Taiwan: Welfare and Rights of Youth
- University of Geneva: Children’s Human Rights: An Interdisciplinary Introduction
- University of London: Global Diplomacy – Diplomacy in the Modern World
- Macquarie University: Big History – diversity and inclusion
- Harvard University: Child Protection: Children’s Rights in Theory and Practice
- Stanford University: International Women’s Health and Human Rights
- UNICEF: Social Norms, Social Change
- University of Copenhagen: A global, transdisciplinary vision for the future
Goal 11: Sustainable cities and communities
: Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable.
The target areas of this goal strive to provide access to safe and affordable housing for all, access to safe and affordable transportation for all, and inclusive and sustainable urbanization, planning, and management. It also hopes to achieve strengthened efforts in protecting cultural and natural heritage, reduction in the number of deaths and economic losses related to disaster, and reduction in the adverse environmental impact on cities from air quality and waste management. It also hopes to provide global access to safe and inclusive green spaces.
Goal 12: Responsible consumption and production
Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns.
This goal includes the implementation of a 10-year framework for sustainable consumption and production and hopes to achieve sustainable management of natural resources. It also strives to reduce global food waste by half, achieve environmentally sound management of chemicals and wastes, reduce waste overall, and encourage companies to adopt sustainable practices. This goal will also promote sustainable procurement practices and work to increase information and awareness on sustainable development and lifestyles.
Goal 13: Climate change
Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts.
This goal strives to strengthen the capacity to deal with climate-related hazards and natural disasters, in addition to integrating climate change measures into national policies and improving education and awareness surrounding climate change and its impact.
Goal 14: Life below water
Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development. .
The targets of this goal focus on preventing and reducing marine pollution, managing and protecting marine and coastal ecosystems, and minimizing the effects of ocean acidification. It also strives to regulate harvesting and end overfishing, as well as conserve at least 10 percent of marine and coastal areas by 2020 and prohibit certain types of fisheries from overfishing and overcapacity. Finally, it hopes to increase the economic benefits to Small Island developing States and other developing countries through sustainable use of marine resources.
Goal 15: Life on land
Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss.
This goal focuses on ensuring conservation and restoration of terrestrial ecosystems, including promoting the implementation of sustainable management of forests, combating desertification, and ensuring the conservation of mountain ecosystems. It will also work to reduce the degradation of natural habitats, promote fair sharing of genetic resources, end poaching and trafficking of protected species, and prevent the introduction and negative impact of alien species on various ecosystems. It also hopes to promote the integration of ecosystem and biodiversity values into planning and development processes.
Goal 16: Peace, justice, and strong institutions
Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels.
This goals purpose is to reduce all forms of violence and violent deaths, end abuse, trafficking, and exploitation of children, and promote rule of law at all levels to ensure access to justice. Included in this goal is the reduction of illegal financial and arms flow, the reduction of corruption and bribery, and the development of accountable and transparent institutions. Additionally, this goal strives to ensure responsive, inclusive, and participatory decision-making at all levels, broaden the participation of countries in global governance, provide legal identity and birth registration for all people, and ensure public access to information and the protection of fundamental freedoms.
- Leiden University: Political Economy of Institutions and development
- University of Taiwan: Welfare and Rights of Youth
- Leiden University: The Changing Global Order
- Leiden University: EU Policy & Implementation: making Europe work!
- Leiden University: Federalism & Decentralisation: Evaluating Africa’s Track Record
- Leiden University: Heritage under Threat
- Leiden University: International Law in Action 1: A guide to the International Courts and Tribunals in the Hague
- Leiden University: International Law in Action 2: Investigating and Prosecuting International Crimes
- Leiden University: The Rooseveltian Century
- Leiden University: Security & Safety Challenges in a Globalized World
- Leiden University: Terrorism & Counterterrorism: comparing Theory & Practice
- University of London: Global Diplomacy – Diplomacy in the Modern World
- Rutgers University: Revolutionary Ideas: Utility, Justice, Equality, Freedom
- University of Taiwan: Welfare and Rights of Youth
- Utrecht University: Human rights for Open Societies
- Harvard University: Child Protection: Children’s Rights in Theory and Practice
- SDG Academy: Environmental Security and Sustaining Peace
Goal 17: Partnership for the goals
Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the global partnership for sustainable development.
This goal targets the specific areas of finance, technology, capacity-building, trade, and systemic issues. In the area of finance, this goal plans to work towards strengthening domestic resource mobilization, fully implementing development assistance commitments in developing countries, and increasing financial assistance and access for developing countries. For technology, the goal strives to enhance regional and international cooperation and access to science, technology, and innovation, as well as promote environmentally sound technologies, and fully implement mechanisms to improve technology and capacity-building in the areas of science, technology, and innovation. The capacity-building target focuses on enhancing international support for capacity-building in developing countries. Around trade, this goal works to promote a universal, inclusive trade system through the World Trade Organization, increase exports of developing countries, and implement duty-free/quota-free market access for developing countries. The targets for systemic issues, also known as policy and institutional coherence, focus on enhancing global macroeconomic stability, enhancing policy coherence, respecting individual countries’ leadership and policies, enhancing global partnership in sustainable development, promoting effective partnerships between public, private-public, and civil society, enhancing support for capacity-building in developing countries, and build on initiatives to development measurements of sustainable development.