Exchange of Best Practices

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Click on the relevant focus which will take to you a page where you can share your best practice related to this focus or tell people of your plans and ideas in this area and, if relevant, invite people to collaborate. If possible, please use English language for your comments. This helps to keep the convention international.

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ECONOMY
Companies	Create easier, additional opportunities (to the ECG Balance Sheet) for companies to engage in ethical behaviour and join the movement.
Employees	Devise ways to empower employees to move their company towards ECG way of working.
Number of balance sheets	Raise the number of companies and organisations with an ECG Balance Sheet.
Positive recognition	Gain recognition for enterprise, innovation and business activity as a force for the common good.
Promotion of ECG tools	Promote ECG Balance Sheet and tools nationally and internationally...
	... as organisational development tools, for evaluation and planning.
	... as a comprehensive non-financial reporting tool.
	... as a tool to tackle global problems as established by UN in SDGs.
	... as a tool for a broader view of the organisational impact on society and the environment and to find allies in the organisation's stakeholders.
Quality and effectiveness	Ensure the quality and effectiveness of the ECG Balance Sheet.
Relationships	Form and maintain lasting relationships with companies/organisations who do the ECG Balance Sheet.

POLITICS
Democracy	Promote the use of grassroots democracy.
Municipalities	Promote the ECG Balance Sheet amongst municipalities and raise the number of municipalities with an ECG Balance Sheet.
Policy change	Seek policy change nationally and internationally in order to align with ECG values.
	Collaborate with other organisations in order to make non-financial reporting/balance sheets obligatory for all organisations on a legal basis (prove that one fulfils multiple reporting standards with the ECG Balance Sheet).
	Collaborate with other organisations to develop an international integrated reporting standard.
	Work towards making public procurement and law in line with ECG values.
	Propose financial policies for promoting common-good oriented activity.
Sustainable Development Goals	Promote the ECG model as the way to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals.

SOCIETY
Awareness	Raise awareness amongst the public...
	... about the concept of the Economy for the Common Good (ECG) and its values.
	... about economic concepts and their effect on the common good.
	... about economic and political interdependencies (reading and learning to create a balance sheet).
	... about common good oriented behavior.
Collaboration	Collaborate with other organizations...
	... to achieve ECG values.
	... to strengthen the voice of people in defining the common good.
Consumers	Make it easier for consumers to choose more sustainable options.
Education system	Use all levels of the education system to spread the ECG model.
Proof of effect	Prove the effect of the ECG reporting process and other common good activities on society and the economy.

MOVEMENT
Structure and processes	Make sure that the internal structure and processes of the ECG movement follow the ECG values.
Feedback	Establish an internal feedback loop.

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