SUSTAINABILITY FLOWER TOOL SELF-ASSESSMENT TOOL ACCORDING TO THE SUSTAINABILITY FLOWER What is the Sustainability Flower? The overall idea of the Sustainability Flower is to create a common understanding of which aspects are crucial for sustainable development in the agricultural supply chain. It offers a framework for assessing, improving and communicating sustainable development performance of an organization. The Sustainability Flower is generally structured into 9 dimensions that are composed of a varying number of performance aspects. Which dimensions are included in the Self-Assessment?
Soil
Plants Animals Energy Air Water
Societal life
Cultural life
Economic life
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YOU C AN CHOOSE BETWEEN TWO DIFFERENT OPTIONS: THE 5 OR 30 MINUTES SELF-ASSESSMENT The 5 minutes Self-Assessment will help you to quickly understand the different dimensions for your supply chain level in agribusiness. Quickly, get an impression of your approximate performance than on going into any details.
For understanding more precisely which performance aspects of the Sustainability Flower score well and in which areas your organization might need to improve, you should invest 25 minutes more. You will need to register for this Self-Assessment but you will also have the advantage of saving results and returning to a Self-Assessment that you filled in half way.
What are your benefits? • Learn quickly (in 5 or 30 minutes) about your approximate status quo concerning sustainable development in your organization. • Receive a feedback document with commented evaluation of all dimensions. • The 30 minutes Self-Assessment provides even more detailed feedback on performance aspect level. • Store your results in order to return to them later on, e.g. for comparison of different years. • Get easily in touch with experts for further advice and consultancy. How does the Self-Assessment Tool work?
Questionnaire The questionnaire varies in length (5 to 30 minutes) and adapts to your supply chain level (small scale farmer, farmer, processor, wholesaler, retailer)
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Prompt Automatic Evaluation
Downloadable Feedback Document The feedback document provides you with a commented evaluation per dimension (5 minutes Self-Assessment) or more detailed per performance aspect (30 minutes Self-Assessment)
If you are registered, your results will be stored for you for later usage. Registering allows you also to leave the Self-Assessment process in between and continue later on. The Self-Assessment results can be used to define next steps on your sustainable development journey. You can identify your best practice and use them in communication towards clients and / or consumers. The Sustainability Flower can be used as a framework for your assessment, improvement, and communication cycle. Afterward the Self-Assessment you can get easily in touch with experts for further advice and consultancy. For more information, please contact: cdc@hu.edu.eg