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Assess all relevant collections-based actions across all SDGs. Choose this option if you wish to know how your organization is contributing to all aspects of sustainable development (Recommended)

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SDGs
COLLECTIONs-BASED Actions

A • Protect and Safeguard Cultural and Natural Heritage

A1 • We maintain and develop collections related to the genetic diversity of seeds, cultivated plants, domesticated animals, related wild species, and/or related traditional knowledge.
A2 • We maintain and develop collections that can be used for a wide range of activities that support the SDGs, and are concerned with the protection, use and development of cultural and/or natural heritage in the wider world.
A3 • Our collections-based activities contribute to disaster risk reduction, both in terms of protecting collections, and using collections as tools for disaster risk reduction.
A4 • We are involved in local planning that protects, safeguards, and develops cultural and natural heritage, within the organisation and more widely.
A5 • We have plans in place to ensure cultural and/or natural heritage can withstand climate-related hazards and natural disasters.
A6 • Our collections-based activities support the conservation, restoration, and sustainable use of marine and coastal areas.
A7 • Our collections-based activities contribute to the conservation, restoration, and sustainable use of terrestrial and freshwater ecosystems.
A8 • Our collections-based activities contribute to prevent the degradation of natural habitats and loss of biodiversity.
A9 • Our collections-based activities combat illegal wildlife trafficking and poaching, and ensure that collection objects and specimens (e.g., ivory, rhino horn) are protected against theft and do not enter the illegal market.
A10 • Our collections-based activities provide support (financial and other forms) to projects that conserve and sustainably use biodiversity and ecosystems.
A11 • Our collections-based activities provide support (financial and other forms) to projects that conserve and sustainably use forests (e.g., reforestation and supporting local and Indigenous peoples).
A12 • Our collections-based activities provide support (financial and other forms) to combat poaching and illegal killing of wildlife, providing income sources for local communities.
A13 • Our collections-based activities combat organized crime, and we aim to identify and return any stolen or improperly acquired material culture.

B • Learning and Educational Opportunities

B1 • Our collections-based activities include education and awareness programmes to address the most extreme forms of poverty, i.e. people living on very low income.
B2 • Our collections-based activities include education and awareness programmes to address poverty in its different forms beyond monetary deprivation, e.g., poor health, lack of education, inadequate living standards, disempowerment, poor quality of work, the threat of violence, living in environmentally hazardous areas.
B3 • Our collections-based activities include education and awareness programmes to empower people to make use of social protection systems.
B4 • Our collections-based activities include education and awareness programmes to build people’s resilience to climate-related events and other shocks and disasters (especially for vulnerable groups).
B5 • Our collections-based activities include education and awareness programmes to promote healthy food, nutrition, and seasonal diets (especially for vulnerable and marginalized groups).
B6 • Our collections-based activities include education and awareness programmes that aim to end malnutrition (especially for vulnerable and marginalized groups).
B7 • Our collections-based activities include education and awareness programmes to support small-scale food producers and the preservation of traditional food-related knowledge.
B8 • Our collections-based activities include education and awareness programmes to promote sustainable food production, and reduce the impact of disasters on food-producing communities.
B9 • Our collections-based activities include education and awareness programmes to promote the conservation of crop and livestock genetic diversity, and promote the rights and protections of source communities regarding use of genetic resources and traditional knowledge.
B10 • Our collections-based activities include education and awareness programmes to address the causes, impacts and prevention of communicable diseases, with special support for marginalized and at-risk groups.
B11 • Our collections-based activities include education and awareness programmes to reduce and prevent substance abuse, including use of drugs or alcohol.
B12 • Our collections-based activities include education and awareness programmes to promote sexual health, reproductive health, and family planning.
B13 • Our collections-based activities include education and awareness programmes to promote universal access to healthcare, locally and globally.
B14 • Our collections-based activities include education and awareness programmes to address the negative health impacts of tobacco use, and aim to deter people from smoking (especially for marginalized and vulnerable groups).
B15 • Our collections-based activities include education and awareness programmes to reduce the impact of national and global health risks, through early warning, risk reduction and management of health risks (especially for marginalized and vulnerable groups).
B16 • Our collections-based activities include education and awareness programmes to support children as part of primary and secondary education, notably children at risk of not completing education.
B17 • Our collections-based activities include education and awareness programmes to support early childhood development and to prepare children for primary education.
B18 • Our collections-based activities include education and awareness programmes to support equal access to education, and the development of skills for work and to support employment.
B19 • Our collections-based activities include training programmes to ensure that staff have appropriate skills for employment and enterprise, and that they can support and contribute to sustainable development and the Sustainable Development Goals effectively.
B20 • Our collections-based activities include educational and training programs that accommodate the needs and aspirations of women and minorities, including Indigenous peoples, children in vulnerable situations, persons with disabilities, and other minorities and groups at risk of being marginalized/under-served.
B21 • Our collections-based activities include education and awareness programmes to support literacy and numeracy among youth, adults, and people belonging to groups at risk of being marginalized/under-served.
B22 • Our collections-based activities support all learners to acquire the knowledge and skills needed to promote sustainable development, including through education for sustainable lifestyles; human rights; gender equality; a culture of peace and non-violence; global citizenship; and appreciation of cultural diversity and of culture’s contribution to sustainable development.
B23 • Our organization provides a safe, non-violent, inclusive, and effective learning environment for everyone, regardless of age, ability, gender or any other characteristic.
B24 • We provide scholarships to support educational and training programs directed towards people from developing countries.
B25 • We provide support to people who are training to be teachers in developing countries.
B26 • Our collections-based activities include education and awareness programmes to reduce and eliminate all forms of discrimination against women and girls everywhere.
B27 • Our collections-based activities include education and awareness programmes to reduce, prevent, and eliminate all forms of exploitation and violence against women and girls.
B28 • Our collections-based activities include education and awareness programmes to reduce and eliminate harmful cultural practices including child marriage, forced marriage, and female genital mutilation.
B29 • Our collections-based activities include education and awareness programmes that support women and girls’ leadership, in activities and beyond the organisation.
B30 • Our collections-based activities include education and awareness programmes to promote people’s participation in managing water resources.
B31 • Our collections-based activities include education and awareness programmes that promote enterprise, creativity, and innovation, and to support people to form their own businesses.
B32 • Our collections-based activities include education and awareness programmes to support young people into employment, education, or training.
B33 • Our collections-based activities include education and awareness programmes to help eradicate forced labour, modern slavery and human trafficking.
B34 • Our collections-based activities include education and awareness programmes to promote labour rights, especially the rights of migrant workers and others in unstable employment.
B35 • Our collections-based activities include education and awareness programmes to empower people to take part in sustainable tourism, as tourists and producers of cultural goods.
B36 • Our collections-based activities include education and awareness programmes to empower people to take part in society and public affairs.
B37 • Our collections-based activities include education and awareness programmes to support migrants and refugees, and to address issues related to migration, mobility, and refugees.
B38 • Our collections-based activities include education and awareness programmes to promote access to adequate, safe, and affordable housing and basic services.
B39 • Our collections-based activities include education and awareness programmes to strengthen the protection of cultural and/or natural heritage, and to use cultural and/or natural heritage to meet the needs of communities, stakeholders, and the Sustainable Development Goals.
B40 • Our collections-based activities include education and awareness programmes to reduce the exposure and vulnerability of people and communities to disasters of all kinds.
B41 • Our collections-based activities include education and awareness programmes to support access to information on sustainable development and promote lifestyles in harmony with nature.
B42 • Our collections-based activities include education and awareness programmes to support impact reduction, early warning, mitigation, and adaptation to climate change.
B43 • Our collections-based activities include education and awareness programmes to build capacity for climate change planning and management in least developed countries and/or small island developing states (with particular attention to women, youth, and marginalized communities).
B44 • Our collections-based activities include education and awareness programmes to reduce and eliminate marine pollution and waste of all kinds.
B45 • Our collections-based activities include education and awareness programmes to promote the conservation, restoration, and sustainable use of marine and coastal areas.
B46 • Our collections-based activities include education and awareness programmes to promote the conservation, restoration, and sustainable use of terrestrial and freshwater ecosystems.
B47 • Our collections-based activities include education and awareness programmes to promote the conservation, restoration, and sustainable use of forests.
B48 • Our collections-based activities include education and awareness programmes to support the protection of soils and land use (especially from desertification, drought, and floods).
B49 • Our collections-based activities include education and awareness programmes to promote the conservation, restoration, and sustainable use of mountain ecosystems.
B50 • Our collections-based activities include education and awareness programmes to prevent the degradation of habitats and loss of biodiversity.
B51 • Our collections-based activities include education and awareness programmes to prevent poaching and trafficking of wildlife.
B52 • Our collections-based activities include education and awareness programmes to prevent the introduction and spread of invasive species.
B53 • Our collections-based activities include education and awareness programmes to reduce violence everywhere.
B54 • Our collections-based activities include education and awareness programmes to help eliminate child exploitation and trafficking, and violence against children.
B55 • Our collections-based activities include education and awareness programmes to promote the rule of law, equality before the law, and justice for all.
B56 • Our collections-based activities include education and awareness programmes to promote the identification and return of stolen assets and to reduce organized crime.
B57 • Our collections-based activities include education and awareness programmes to combat corruption and bribery.
B58 • Our collections-based activities include education and awareness programmes to support public access to information and to human rights more generally.
B59 • Our collections-based activities include education and awareness programmes that support laws and policies for sustainable development.
B60 • Our collections-based activities include education and awareness programmes that promote people’s involvement in global actions and initiatives for sustainable development.
B61 • Our collections-based activities include education and awareness programmes that promote people’s involvement in cross-sector and local initiatives for sustainable development.

C • Cultural Participation and Social Inclusion

C1 • We provide collections-based programmes to ensure that marginalized/under-served people and groups can make use of services on the same basis as others.
C2 • We provide collections-based programmes that aim to support the health and wellbeing of all people.
C3 • We provide collections-based programmes that meet the needs and aspirations of girls and women, and minorities (such as Indigenous peoples’ groups, children in vulnerable situations, people with disabilities, and/or other minorities).
C4 • We provide a safe, non-violent, inclusive, and effective learning environment for all people.
C5 • We are actively working to identify and remove practices and processes that discriminate on the basis of gender.
C6 • We are actively promoting inclusion and removing barriers that prevent people from different social groups from making use of services and from equal participation in society.
C7 • We are actively working to identify and remove practices and processes that prevent social groups from making use of services on an equal basis as others.
C8 • We are actively working to ensure that migrants and refugees can make use of services on an equal basis as others.
C9 • We actively promote people’s involvement in decision-making on the development of their communities.
C10 • We provide safe and welcoming public space, and green space (where appropriate), notably for women, children, elderly people, persons with disabilities, and minorities.
C11 • We are working with other sectors to ensure that the community’s policies and plans are integrated, to promote social inclusion.
C12 • We are committed to involving people and communities in decisions regarding the institution.
C13 • We are committed to providing public access to information and supporting human rights more generally.
C14 • We actively promote laws and policies for sustainable development.
C15 • We support awareness of global agendas and initiatives, to promote people’s involvement in current affairs and global action, to ‘think global and act local’.
C16 • We take part in and support cross-sector and cross-society partnerships locally, regionally and/or nationally.

D • Sustainable Tourism

D1 • Our tourism-related activities, drawing on collections, are directed towards benefiting poor/marginalized people and groups.
D2 • Our tourism-related activities, drawing on collections, aim to benefit small-scale food producers and the preservation of traditional food-related knowledge.
D3 • We are working to enhance the positive contributions of collections-based tourism to sustainable development, for example by providing markets for culture-related products, providing employment for local communities, and removing the negative impacts of tourism.
D4 • We are working to fully evaluate sustainable/responsible collections-based tourism activities, considering social, environmental and economic costs and benefits.
D5 • We are working to reduce and eliminate the negative impact of tourism activities on climate change.
D6 • We are working to end pollution of seas and coasts arising from tourism.
D7 • We are working to ensure tourism activities use coasts and seas in sustainable ways, promoting their conservation, restoration, and sustainable use.
D8 • We actively support sustainable tourism in small island developing states and least developed countries.
D9 • We are working to ensure that tourism activities contribute to the conservation, restoration, and sustainable use of terrestrial and freshwater ecosystems.

E • Support Research

E1 • Our collections contribute to research that aims to address the most extreme forms of poverty.
E2 • Our collections contribute to research that aims to address poverty in its different forms beyond monetary deprivation, e.g., poor health, lack of education, inadequate living standards, disempowerment, poor quality of work, the threat of violence, living in environmentally hazardous areas.
E3 • Our collections contribute to research that aims to empower people to make use of social protection systems.
E4 • Our collections contribute to research that aims to build people’s resilience to climate-related events and other shocks and disasters (especially for vulnerable groups).
E5 • Our collections contribute to research that aims to promote healthy food, nutrition, and seasonal diets (especially for vulnerable and marginalized groups).
E6 • Our collections contribute to research that aims to end malnutrition (especially for vulnerable and marginalized groups).
E7 • Our collections contribute to research that aims to support small-scale food producers and the preservation of traditional food-related knowledge.
E8 • Our collections contribute to research that aims to promote sustainable food production, and reduce the impact of disasters on food-producing communities.
E9 • Our collections contribute to research that aims to promote the conservation of crop and livestock genetic diversity, and promote the rights and protections of source communities regarding use of genetic resources and traditional knowledge.
E10 • Our collections contribute to research that aims to address the causes, impacts and prevention of communicable diseases, with special support for marginalized and at-risk groups.
E11 • Our collections contribute to research that aims to promote mental health and wellbeing.
E12 • Our collections contribute to research that aims to promote universal access to healthcare, locally and globally.
E13 • Our collections contribute to research that promotes sustainable lifestyles, human rights, gender equality, a culture of peace and non-violence, global citizenship, and appreciation of cultural diversity and of culture’s contribution to sustainable development.
E14 • Our collections contribute to research that promotes women and girls’ empowerment.
E15 • Our collections contribute to research that promotes access to drinking water for all.
E16 • Our collections contribute to research that improves water quality.
E17 • Our collections contribute to research that protects and restores water-related ecosystems.
E18 • Our collections contribute to research that promotes use of renewable energy.
E19 • Our collections contribute to research that promotes energy efficiency.
E20 • Our collections contribute to research that helps develop the circular economy.
E21 • Our collections contribute to research that aims to help eradicate forced labour, modern slavery and human trafficking.
E22 • We preserve and develop collections as a research infrastructure, to support sustainable development and human wellbeing.
E23 • We actively support and/or take part in scientific research activities, and ensure that collections are discoverable (e.g., online) for scientific and other forms of research, and are research-ready.
E24 • We support the development of research collections and infrastructures in the Global South, sharing resources (for example by sharing equipment and collections information, and engaging in joint projects).
E25 • Our collections contribute to research that promotes social inclusion, notably of minorities and marginalized groups.
E26 • Our collections contribute to research that aims to support migrants and refugees and address issues related to migration, mobility, and refugees.
E27 • Our collections contribute to research that aims to promote access to adequate, safe, and affordable housing and basic services.
E28 • Our collections contribute to research that supports the development of sustainable transport.
E29 • We support and/or take part in research activities that aim to protect and safeguard cultural and/or natural heritage, and to promote its effective use and development.
E30 • Our collections contribute to research that aims to reduce the exposure and vulnerability of people and communities to disasters of all kinds.
E31 • Our collections contribute to research that aims to reduce the negative environmental impact of towns and cities.
E32 • Our collections contribute to research that aims to use natural resources in sustainable ways.
E33 • Our collections contribute to research that aims to reduce food waste.
E34 • Our collections contribute to research that aims to manage chemicals in environmentally sounds ways.
E35 • Our collections contribute to research that aims to reduce waste generation, through prevention, reduction, recycling, and reuse.
E36 • Our collections contribute to research that aims to provide people with information for sustainable lifestyles in harmony with nature.
E37 • We support research activities that promote sustainable production and consumption in Global South countries.
E38 • Our collections contribute to research that aims to support climate mitigation, adaptation, impact reduction and early warning.
E39 • Our collections contribute to research that aims to build capacity for climate change planning and management in least developed countries and/or small island developing states (with particular attention to women, youth, and marginalized communities).
E40 • Our collections contribute to research that aims to reduce and eliminate marine pollution and waste of all kinds.
E41 • Our collections contribute to research that aims to promote the conservation, restoration, and sustainable use of marine and coastal areas.
E42 • Our collections contribute to research to minimize ocean acidification and its impacts.
E43 • Our collections contribute to research for the sustainable management and harvesting of fish.
E44 • Our collections contribute to research that supports the designation and management of marine protected areas.
E45 • Our collections contribute to develop research capacity for the conservation and management of marine biodiversity and habitats in developing countries.
E46 • Our collections contribute to research that supports the conservation, restoration, and sustainable use of terrestrial and freshwater ecosystems.
E47 • Our collections contribute to research that supports the conservation, restoration, and sustainable use of forests.
E48 • Our collections contribute to research that supports the protection of soils and land use (especially from desertification, drought, and floods).
E49 • Our collections contribute to research that supports the conservation, restoration, and sustainable use of mountain ecosystems.
E50 • Our collections contribute to research that aims to protect endangered habitats and species.
E51 • Our collections provide researchers with access to [biodiversity] genetic resources, and research benefits are fairly shared with source communities and countries.
E52 • Our collections contribute to research that aims to prevent poaching and trafficking of wildlife.
E53 • Our collections contribute to research that helps understand and manage invasive species.
E54 • Our collections contribute to research that aims to eliminate violence in all its forms.
E55 • Our collections contribute to research that aims to promote the rule of law, equality before the law, and justice for all.
E56 • Our collections contribute to research that supports people’s right to information and wider human rights.
E57 • We are involved in collections-based activities that enhance science and access to science as part of North-South, South-South, and triangular cooperation projects.

F • Organizational management: Employment (recruiting, training, safety)

F1 • We support ongoing skills development for those working with collections.
F2 • Our staff training and development programmes meet the needs of women, persons with disabilities, members of Indigenous peoples’ groups, and of other minorities.
F3 • Our training and development programmes aim to empower staff and trainees to have the knowledge, motivation, and skills to support sustainable development outcomes, considering human rights, gender equality, global citizenship and the role of culture and cultural diversity in sustainable development.
F4 • Our employment, training and development programmes promote gender equality.
F5 • Women have equal opportunities for leadership and decision making at all levels in our organization.
F6 • Our organization is committed to ensuring that policies promote gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls at all levels.
F7 • We promote staff skills and opportunities to develop and participate in innovation-driven projects that increase the range, diversity and benefits of collections-based activities.
F8 • Our organization is committed to creating and providing decent jobs, and supporting small-scale suppliers.
F9 • Our organization provides employment opportunities, including for local communities, young people, and persons with disabilities, with fair and equal pay, and with no exploitation across the supply chain.
F10 • Our organization provides opportunities and initiatives that aim to support young people’s employability and reduce youth unemployment.
F11 • Our organization is committed to ensuring that exploitation, forced labour and modern slavery have no place in the supply chain.
F12 • Our organization is committed to treating employees, contractors and potential employees fairly, legally and equally; that they work in safe environments; and in decent, secure work for which they are paid a fair wage.
F13 • Our collections-based tourism activities support employment, for example for craft producers.
F14 • Our employment and work-related activities are intended to be equally accessible to everyone.
F15 • Our organizational policies and practices are intended to prevent discrimination on any basis in order to ensure equality of opportunity for all.
F16 • Our organizational policies promote equality of opportunity, social protection, fair wages and additional protections for particular groups of people.
F17 • Our employees have information for sustainable development.
F18 • Our organization ensures that staff members are competent and confident in taking part in climate action, in terms of emissions reduction and adaptation to climate impacts.

G • Organizational management: Energy consumption, greenhouse gas emissions

G1 • Our energy comes from renewable sources.
G2 • Our organization is working to improve energy efficiency.
G3 • Our organization ensures that any new building developments prioritize sustainable use of energy (use of renewables, low energy use).
G4 • Our organization is replacing/has replaced equipment that consumes fossil fuels and/or that is inefficient.
G5 • Our organization is working to reduce energy consumption across its activities.
G6 • Our organization is implementing plans to measure and reduce greenhouse gas emissions in line with ambitious climate action, and acknowledging the full range of emissions sources it is responsible for.

H • Organizational management: Waste Management and Reduction

H1 • Our organization is implementing an action plan to reduce and eliminate the release of harmful pollutants to rivers and seas, notably more harmful chemicals and materials, with the aim of eliminating their use.
H2 • Our organization is implementing an action plan to reduce water use and/or increase water recycling.
H3 • Our organization is implementing a plan to maximize resource efficiency and promote the green economy, which minimizes waste by using end-products in other industrial processes.
H4 • Our organization ensures that any new building developments minimize waste production.
H5 • Our organization is upgrading existing buildings and facilities, to eliminate inefficient use of natural resources and production of wastes.
H6 • Our organization is implementing a plan to contribute to air quality improvement, e.g., by identifying sources of air pollution and rapidly eliminating these.
H7 • Our organization is actively reducing its use of natural resources, especially non-renewable resources such as fossil fuels, metals, and minerals.
H8 • Our organization is actively reducing food waste to eliminate food waste.
H9 • Our organization is actively reducing the production of chemical waste resulting from activities and working practices, to eliminate the release of chemicals into the environment.
H10 • Our organization is actively managing waste production towards ambitious targets, through processes to prevent, reduce, recycle and reuse materials wherever possible.
H11 • Our organization is committed to ending the release of pollution that can find its way into seas and oceans, notably plastic pollution.

I • Organizational management: Transport (forms of, energy use)

I1 • Our transportation methods involving collections use efficient, renewable energy sources.
I2 • People can access our collections by using affordable and sustainable transportation systems.

J • Organizational management: Commercial activities including copyright and intellectual property rights

J1 • Our organization adds value to the local economy by creating or supporting the creation of goods and/or services.
J2 • Our organization adds value to the local economy by supporting innovation and/or diversification.
J3 • Our organization adds value to the local economy by providing employment, and/or by providing opportunities for micro-, small-, and medium-sized enterprises.
J4 • Our organization is committed to ensuring there is no exploitation, forced labour or modern slavery across the supply chain, to ensure people are suitably compensated for their work.
J5 • Our organization is committed to supporting sustainable tourism, that provides markets for small-scale suppliers and artisans, and to reduce the negative impacts of tourism.
J6 • Considerations for human rights and the use of natural resources are a key part of our procurement processes, such as in adverts, contracts, and selection of suppliers.
J7 • Our policies and agreements ensure that any use of genetic resources or associated traditional knowledge benefits source communities in compliance with the Nagoya Protocol: Access to Genetic Resources and the Fair and Equitable Sharing of Benefits Arising from their Utilization to the Convention on Biological Diversity (https://www.cbd.int/abs/).
J8 • Our organization has policies and plans in place to ensure that creators’, artists’, authors’ and other rights-holders’ rights are respected and upheld.

K • Organizational management: Governance and management

K1 • Our organization has adopted sustainable practices and the Sustainable Development Goals as part of its visions, goals, strategies and plans, and reports on its progress and challenges openly and transparently.
K2 • Our organization is committed to upholding and promoting the rule of law across its activities, promoting justice, transparency and accountability.
K3 • Our organization is committed to operating in ways that are effective, accountable and transparent, in terms of fulfilling legal and ethical obligations, and as a basis for sound management and maintaining public trust.
K4 • Our organization involves people and communities in decision making relating to collections and/or the organization.
K5 • Our organization supports public access to information on collections and/or the running of the organization, through regular open communication with a range of stakeholders.
K6 • Our organization reflects sustainable development laws, policies and best practice in its own policies and practices.
K7 • Our policies are developed so that they support one another, and do not conflict with one another.
K8 • Our collections-based activities are evaluated to consider their social, environmental and economic benefits and negative impacts, to fully understand and manage their contribution to sustainable development.

L • Organizational management: Security, Disaster Preparedness, Risk Reduction

L1 • Our organization is prepared for national and global health risks, through early warning, risk reduction and management of health risks.
L2 • Our organization has policies, plans, and procedures to ensure that collections are protected and safeguarded.
L3 • Our organization has policies, plans, and procedures to reduce disaster risk, protecting collections, buildings, and other assets, and to minimize losses from disasters.
L4 • Our organization is part of integrated disaster risk reduction strategies and plans at the municipal/local level, contributing effectively to disaster risk reduction.
L5 • Our organization has policies and plans in place to enable collections, and use of collections to adapt to current and/or future climate impacts.
L6 • Our organization has policies and plans in place to reduce climate impacts, protecting itself and its collections.
L7 • Our organization has policies, plans, and procedures to ensure that collections are protected from theft and that the organization does not accept stolen cultural property.
L8 • Our organization has effective institutional arrangements in place for extraordinary circumstances such as disasters from natural and man-made hazards.

M • External Partnerships and Collaborations

M1 • We take part in collections-based partnerships that aim to address the most extreme forms of poverty.
M2 • We take part in collections-based partnerships that aim to address poverty in all its forms.
M3 • We take part in collections-based partnerships that aim to empower people to make use of social protection systems.
M4 • Our collections-based partnerships involve support for policies, framework and/or investment to eradicate poverty.
M5 • Our collections-based partnerships aim to promote access to good quality, sufficient food for everyone, to combat hunger (specifically for vulnerable and marginalized groups).
M6 • Our collections-based partnerships aim to reduce malnutrition (specifically through providing food and other dietary needs).
M7 • Our collections-based partnerships aim to support small-scale food producers and/or to preserve traditional knowledge.
M8 • Our collections-based partnerships aim to support sustainable food production and/or resilient agricultural practices; to help farmers adapt to climate change; and reduce the impact of climate change on food supplies.
M9 • Our collections-based partnerships contribute to the management of genetic diversity of seeds, cultivated plants, domestic animals, farmed animals, and/or related wild species, and associated traditional knowledge.
M10 • Our collections-based partnerships promote mental health and wellbeing.
M11 • Our collections-based partnerships promote access to healthcare and/or health coverage.
M12 • Our collections-based partnerships aim to reduce the impact of national and/or global health risks, through awareness-raising and early warning.
M13 • Our collections-based partnerships aim to ensure everyone has equal access to educational opportunities.
M14 • Our collections-based partnerships aim to end all forms of discrimination against women and girls.
M15 • Our collections-based partnerships aim to reduce, prevent and/or eliminate all forms of violence against women and girls (including trafficking and other types of exploitation).
M16 • Our collections-based partnerships aim to reduce the occurrence of child marriage, early and forced marriage, and/or female genital mutilation.
M17 • Our collections-based partnerships aim to promote women’s opportunities for leadership.
M18 • Our collections-based partnerships aim to support the efficient use of water, water recycling, and/or preventing water shortages.
M19 • Our collections-based partnerships aim to protect and support water-related ecosystems (for example: wetlands, rivers, lakes, forests, mountains).
M20 • Our collections-based partnerships aim to support sustainable water management and/or sanitation involving communities.
M21 • Our collections-based partnerships aim to encourage innovation and entrepreneurship.
M22 • Our collections-based partnerships aim to strengthen the circular economy.
M23 • Our collections-based partnerships aim to support the creation of decent jobs, notably for local communities, young people and persons with disabilities.
M24 • Our collections-based partnerships aim to ensure young people have skills for work, and opportunities for work.
M25 • Our collections-based partnerships aim to eradicate forced labour, modern slavery, and/or human trafficking.
M26 • Our collections-based partnerships aim to promote labour rights (specifically those of migrant workers and others in precarious employment).
M27 • Our collections-based partnerships aim to strengthen sustainable tourism, that creates good-quality jobs and promotes cultural products, and to reduce the negative impacts of tourism.
M28 • Our collections-based partnerships aim to produce products and/or services that add value to the economy and/or have a positive social and environmental impact.
M29 • Our collections-based partnerships aim to promote social, economic and political inclusion, and to provide effective services for all members of society (regardless of age, sex, ability, race or ethnicity, religion, or economic status).
M30 • Our collections-based partnerships aim to meet the needs of migrants, asylum seekers, refugees and displaced people.
M31 • Our collections-based partnerships aim to promote access to adequate, safe, and affordable housing and/or basic services.
M32 • Our collections-based partnerships aim to promote the development and uptake of sustainable travel options.
M33 • Our collections-based partnerships aim to empower local communities and/or minorities to participate in local planning and/or town management.
M34 • Our collections-based partnerships aim to identify and protect cultural and/or natural heritage (especially at-risk heritage), and empower people and communities to make use of heritage as a resource for sustainable development.
M35 • Our collections-based partnerships aim to reduce vulnerability and exposure to disasters of all kinds, both in terms of risks to collections, and using collections as a resource for Disaster Risk Reduction.
M36 • Our collections-based partnerships aim to ensure public and green spaces are safe and welcoming for all people, notably women, children, elderly people, persons with disabilities, and minorities.
M37 • Our collections-based partnerships aim to promote effective links between urban and rural areas.
M38 • Our collections-based partnerships aim to promote holistic planning for inclusion, sustainable development and Disaster Risk Reduction.
M39 • Our collections-based partnerships aim to support long- and/or short-term planning to adapt to climate-related hazards and/or natural disasters.
M40 • Our collections-based partnerships support climate change planning and/or management in least developed countries and/or small island developing states (specifically for local and marginalized communities).
M41 • Our collections-based partnerships support the conservation, restoration, and sustainable use of marine and coastal areas.
M42 • Our collections-based partnerships support the conservation, restoration, and sustainable use of terrestrial and freshwater ecosystems.
M43 • Our collections-based partnerships support the conservation, restoration, and sustainable use of forests.
M44 • Our collections-based partnerships support the protection of soils and land use (especially from desertification, drought, and floods).
M45 • Our collections-based partnerships support the conservation, restoration, and sustainable use of mountain ecosystems and their biodiversity.
M46 • Our collections-based partnerships aim to protect endangered habitats and species.
M47 • Our collections-based partnerships aim to combat poaching and trafficking of wildlife.
M48 • Our collections-based partnerships aim to prevent the spread and impact of invasive species.
M49 • Our collections-based partnerships aim to reduce all forms of violence everywhere.
M50 • Our collections-based partnerships aim to protect children from all forms of abuse, violence, and exploitation.
M51 • Our collections-based partnerships aim to promote the rule of law, equality before the law, and the right of all to justice.
M52 • Our collections-based partnerships aim to combat organised crime, notably in relation to collections.
M53 • Our collections-based partnerships aim to ensure our organization is effective, accountable and transparent in terms of fulfilling obligations, decision making, and communicating organizational performance.
M54 • Our collections-based partnerships include representation from diverse backgrounds, viewpoints, and interests in decision-making at all levels.
M55 • We take part in collections-based partnerships involving North-South, South-South, and/or triangular partnerships that support access to science, technology, innovation, and/or the sharing of knowledge.
M56 • We take part in collections-based partnerships involving North-South, South-South, and/or triangular partnerships that help to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals.
M57 • Our policies help to facilitate collections-based partnerships by incorporating policy considerations from outside the collections sector.
M58 • Our organization and/or collections contribute to international partnerships that share resources to help achieve the Sustainable Development Goals.
M59 • Our organization and/or collections contribute to local and/or national partnerships that aim to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals.
M60 • We incorporate all of social, economic and environmental considerations into monitoring and evaluation.