Submitted on: 2026-03-18

American applied sciences and quality standards agency's path to transformational governance

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100%

What does it mean?

Advanced
Well done! Your company has developed and implemented several policies and practices across business functions of your organization both internally and externally to transform your governance. Your company recognizes that while formalizing policies is important, to create change, you need to support those policies with practice. The next steps are to address the remaining areas of action to fully implement transformational governance into your corporate sustainability strategy and operations, ensuring accountability, transparency and responsibility both internally and externally.

Putting things into perspective

Transformational governance is a journey in broadening your approach to corporate governance to account for new and cross-cutting risks and opportunities. From early to advanced, all businesses can use their results to take stock of their strengths, and to gain new understanding of their gaps and opportunities.

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Understanding levels

Early
Great start! Your company is at the beginning stages of recognizing the importance of utilizing the transformational governance approach. You have some policies or programmes in place that are helping to advance transformational governance throughout your business operations but have identified that there are opportunities to do more. To start, consider formalizing a commitment from the top and create a strategy to ensure a more consistent approach to developing policies to ensure TG-related action both internally and externally at your company. Your company’s transformational governance journey may have just begun but with the tailored resources below, you can ensure your company’s progress moving forward.
Intermediate
You are making progress! Your company recognizes the importance of transformational governance and is taking concrete steps to introduce policies and practices internally and externally, but is still working on strengthening and broadening its corporate governance approach. The resources below will help you integrate policies and programmes aligned with transformational governance.
Advanced
Well done! Your company has developed and implemented several policies and practices across business functions of your organization both internally and externally to transform your governance. Your company recognizes that while formalizing policies is important, to create change, you need to support those policies with practice. The next steps are to address the remaining areas of action to fully implement transformational governance into your corporate sustainability strategy and operations, ensuring accountability, transparency and responsibility both internally and externally.

Progress on SDG16 targets

Progress on Transformational Governance Topics

Ethical Leadership
Incorporation of ESG into Governance and Decision-Making
Effective grievance mechanisms and access to remedy
Education and Training
Protecting vulnerable workers and communities
Prevention of corruption
Integration of ESG factors in business relationships with third parties (suppliers and contractors)
Human rights due diligence
Reporting and disclosure
Peace
Responsible taxation practices
Rule of law
Stakeholder engagement and community relations
Collective action and partnerships with civil society
Advocacy and influence, including responsible lobbying
Cooperation and partnerships on shared challenges

Areas of action

Below is the percentage progress of your company’s action on internal and external transformational governance topics.
 

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Internal
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External
Internal actions

Some ways business can internally advance SDG 16:

  • Values and culture
  • Board, committee and management composition and oversight
  • Education, employment and training
  • Policies and processes including ethics and compliance programmes
  • Contract provision, due diligence and grievance mechanisms
  • Risk management and reporting
  • Stakeholder engagement, including with employees
External actions

Some ways business can externally advance SDG 16:

  • Stakeholder engagement, including with local communities, civil society organizations and justice advocates
  • Advocacy including lobbying
  • Community dialogue
  • Policy engagement
  • Capacity building
  • Collective action and partnerships
  • Supporting Government monitoring and reporting

Internal actions

Deep dive into your progress with each of the SDG16 topics regarding the internal actions of your organization.

External actions

Deep dive into your progress with each of the SDG16 topics regarding the external actions of your organization.

American applied sciences and quality standards agency's path to transformational governance

Find here more resources that will help your organization move forward. This list is personalized based on your results.

Based on your company’s progress on these topics, there are no additional resources available.
Based on your company’s progress on these topics, there are no additional resources available.

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