Local authorities

Sustainable development: an imperative for public authorities

Given that elected officials and their teams need to:‎

• Have at their disposal a preliminary analysis on the environmental, social, and societal impacts of a ‎project, a programme, or a policy to make this a veritable criterion for decision-making
• Identify the areas of risk and opportunity
• Put under review the public policies (RGPP‎) in order to ensure the performance and to make sure to ‎optimise the means (in the context of depletion of resources)‎
• Carry out analyses, in a concerted effort, with the totality of concerned partners, on shared and ‎irrefutable databases 
• Make short-, medium- and long-term sustainable development projects understood to voters, ‎contributors and users, that is citizens
• Communicate on a tangible basis‎ ‎

Sustainable development: an opportunity in the context of crisis‎

Given that public authorities are the last resort regarding social solidarity and territorial cohesion. Indeed, ‎through their proximity to citizens and because they are bearers of the general interest, they are in a position ‎to:‎

• Supply citizens with the needed protection and reassurance
• Re-establish citizen confidence in methods of governance
• Manage tensions and contradictions

Vigeo enterprise offers:

• Benefits of multiple nature
• On adapted ranges of investigation
• Based on the depth of analysis needed
• With different points of view
• At appropriated phases of progress

Diversified benefits:‎‎

• Diagnostics / audit
• Consulting / Provision of services
• Overview of risks and opportunities in function with your sustainable development issues
• Thematic points of focus, bearing on stakeholder expectations
• Assistance with the development of sustainability indicators
• Assistance with the development of sustainability reports, Agenda 21‎
• Awareness-raising and training of your officers and staff, leading management seminars
• Collection of best practices and benchmarks ‎

Method and tools to provide you with different “a la carte” services, depending on: ‎

• Your issues at stake
• Questions you have
• Level of advancement of your sustainable development policies
• Means at your disposal (time, budget...)

At the moment that is most convenient for you:

• In the initial stages
• During the implementation phase
• During the summary and/or evaluation period

• A deliverable which:‎
  • Provides results that are immediately employable in terms of operation plans of action
  • Allows equal dialogue with public and private organisation engaged in similar processes
  • Identifies your best practices
  • Restores civil society’s image of your actions and reveals their expectations
  • Offers comparisons between different European cities and regions‎
• Auditors specialised in their domains and competencies
• A quality control process
• A reference base which is entirely opposable and adapted to the regional context
• A work process which is designed to integrate the entirety of local specificities ‎
• A constant watch on events taking place concerning sustainability across the globe, supported by ‎the best international databases and the participation of expert groups, in France and worldwide.‎‎

Examples of achievements

• Audit of sustainable development performance
• Assistance for the development of sustainable development policies for municipal authorities
• Consulting services for departments on study sites
• Extra-financial rating on large city and regional authorities
• Consulting regarding state-commissioned works that are socially responsible
• Thematic audits on equal opportunity
• Audit de DSP