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Step 1

Check what changes your organisation should start implementing. This stage requires your involvement in the institution's self-diagnosis but does not require the help of external experts or financial expenditure. All the steps from this stage can be carried out using your own resources. They are not time-consuming and mostly consist of increasing internal awareness, changing habits and implementing simple solutions.

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Step 2

This stage includes implementing changes which require time. It is connected with reformulating some solutions functioning in your organisation, such as decisions and changes concerning procedures, small infrastructure, materials and equipment, as well as operation strategy related to particular areas. This may necessitate consulting with experts and, in some cases, financial investment. It requires inter-departmental cooperation and a wider engagement of employees, so that the implemented changes may support one another and be cohesive throughout the organisation.

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Step 3

The third stage concerns systemic measures – implementing previously prepared processes and solutions. This also includes the initiatives which require big infrastructural changes and/or large financial expenditure, and/or involvement of other entities. Institutions and organisations should ensure that an external audit of the changes implemented be carried out at the end of the process. Its conclusions would show the direction for eco-strategy for the years to follow.