SBG already holds the Initiative's expert record: evaluations, improvement plans, monitoring. The opportunity is everything that happens between evaluations (site visits, trainings, shipments, premium flows) captured as structured events on that baseline. That layer turns forty KPIs from an annual exercise into a live programme view, turns premium claims into records traceable from buyer to producer, and makes each new country or actor a matter of configuration, not engineering.
A structured record of every premium generated and allocated, from buyer to producer and through the SBG Fund, with each funded project tracked from proposal to completion.
Programme indicators and disclosure reports built from live records rather than annual spreadsheet exercises, shaped to the standards the Association already engages with.
Members, donors and certification bodies consult programme data within access rules the Association defines, with an audit trail of who consulted what.
Site visits, trainings and technical assistance captured as structured events with participants, photos and location, linked to the producers and projects they serve.
Recorded activity rolls up into producer, implementer and programme indicators, including progression clocks on each producer's path from one accreditation step to the next.
Producers consult their own record and submit updates and documents directly, validated by their implementer. The compilation burden in the field goes down as the network grows.
Onboarding a new implementing partner is configuration, not engineering: a new account, a language pack where needed, and country-specific means of verification on the same criteria.
Processing plants, exporters, aggregators and miners' associations enter the model with their own forms and linkage rules, as the Initiative's sourcing models evolve.
Additions such as climate indicators at mine-site level travel as configuration on the existing framework, with reporting uptake from day one.
SBG runs on the same application framework as WAZI and other responsible-sourcing platforms. Shared structures for stakeholder records, documents and information sharing mean programme data can connect to the wider responsible-minerals data landscape, on terms the Association governs. SBG stays the focused expert tool it is; interoperability is built into its foundations.
For development opportunities and possible expansion of the Swiss Better Gold platform, contact the Association.