Our Focal Square

  • Monitoring Sustainability Performance

    Monitoring CSR Sustainability performance allows for an evaluation of the organization’s success in achieving strategic CSR/Sustainability ob...

  • Social Return on Investment (“SROI”)

    Social investment is only sustainable if organizations manage to prove its value to the financial bottom line and quantitatively measure the social...

  • GRI Sustainability Reporting

    Reporting about sustainability performance is an important way for organizations to manage their impact on sustainable development.  ...

  • Socio-Economic Impact Analysis (SEIA)

    SEIA is the systematic analysis used during Environmental Impact Assessment (“EIA”) to identify and evaluate the potential socio-econom...

  • Community Needs Assessment

    A Social Needs Assessment is an ongoing analysis of social care needs of a population and making recommendations for changes to meet these needs. I...
CSR & Sustainability in the Middle East (23-May-2013)
  Interview conducted by Abeer Aslam, a Sustainability Practitioner in the Middle East on April 8th, 2013. Monaem Ben Lellahom is a Co-founder and Head of Sustainability Consultancy services at ...
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Welcome to Our Sustainable Square Office in Dubai (21-May-2013)
Sustainable Square is located in the Al Amiri building in the Tecom area of Dubai.  We are pleased to be a part of the Tecom family, a Dubai government organization that provides a platform for various businesses and non-profits in telecommunications, education, training, and spread of knowl...
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Sustainable Square Team at World Future Energy Summit Abu Dhabi 2012 (02-May-2013)
The founding members of Sustainable Square attended the opening of the 2012 World Future Energy Summit in Abu Dhabi on Monday the 16th of January to engage with professionals in the booming global sustainable energy market.  His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Crown Prince of A...
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Sustainable Square Officially in Business (02-October-2012)
Sustainable Square is official as of the 31st of January 2012.  Sustainable Square received its trade license as a consultancy firm registered in the emirate of Dubai, United Arab Emirates under the trade name Sustainable Square Consultancy and Think Tank LLC.  To our knowledge we ...
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The Issue of the UAE and GCC Water Footprint (02-May-2013)

The Issue of the UAE and GCC Water Footprint Note: This article is what we call a rolling issue article.  In effect we are creating a live document that we may eventually publish or connect to a chain of other documents aided by our lovely supporters.  The reason for making it live even during editing is to engage the community for...
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The Issue of the UAE and GCC Water Footprint (02-October-2012 )

The Issue of the UAE and GCC Water Footprint Note: This article is what we call a rolling issue article.  In effect we are creating a live document that we may eventually publish or connect to a chain of other documents aided by our lovely supporters.  The reason for making it live even during editing is to engage the community for...
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Monaem Ben Lellahom
Monaem Ben Lellahom – Head of Sustainability Services A Co-founder of Sustainable Square Consultancy & Think Tank, Monaem is a pioneer and thought leader in the Sustainability practices in the broaden Middle East and North Africa region and awarded to be the 1st Social Return on Investment (SROI) practitioners in the Arab world from the UK SROI Network mastering soc...
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Eric Hensel
Eric Hensel – Head of Think Tank Services Eric Hensel is a pioneer in the booming “people and society” sector in the United Arab Emirates and broader GCC. He started off with bachelor’s degree in Economics from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, USA. He has been at the forefront of social startups in the GCC since 2004 including stints with A...
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