Program Mission, Goals and Objectives

Program Objectives

1. Raise the political priority
of SPAC.

2. Promote monitoring, assessment and reporting

4. Strengthen communications and knowledge exchange

Unsustainable production and consumption patterns underlie most of the world's worsening environmental and social trends, from the degradation of ecosystems to the deepening gap between the world's under-consuming poor and their more affluent neighbors.

Achieving sustainable production and consumption (SPAC) patterns, from the local to the global levels in personal and institutional practice and policy is essential to reversing these trends. For our contribution to addressing this ambitious but critical challenge, ISF's Sustainable Production and Consumption Program aims at two overarching goals:

To persuade the world's governments and decision-makers to place sustainable production and consumption at the heart of economic policy, and

To help build and strengthen the necessary alliances and efforts of civil society organizations and other in promoting those sustainable production and consumption policies and patterns.

Program Objectives

To achieve these goals, ISF focuses on four action-oriented objectives:

1. Raise the political priority of SPAC, which involves active advocacy and education efforts especially targeting policymakers and community leaders.

2. Promote monitoring, assessment and reporting, in which we try to improve the flow of critical information about SPAC developments, especially regarding the implementation of commitments and the identification and overcoming of obstacles to progress.

3. Encourage networking, in which we work with specific networks, campaigns and processes which help build and improve the effectiveness of alliances among civil society groups and partners.

4. Strengthen communications and knowledge exchange, in which we work to encourage and support the sharing of useful information among groups, which underlies healthy alliances as well as effective advocacy.