SDG Impact Standards for Enterprises, Bond Issuers and Private Equity Funds developed for Enterprises, Funds, Bond Issuers and other actors as a public good to inform and encourage increased private sector investment towards advancing the SDGs. Part of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) SDG Impact Initiative. The SDG Impact Standards are internal decision-making standards to help users integrate impact management and contribute positively to sustainable development and the SDGs into strategy, management approach, transparency and governance practices. The Standards also help users to connect to and work with actors across the system through a shared system, conventions and language.

United Nations Development Programme. (2021). SDG Impact Standards Glossary. https://sdgimpact.undp.org/assets/SDG-Impact-Standards-Glossary.pdf