The UN SDGs consist of 17 goals and 169 targets with 230 agreed upon indicators. Aligning to the SDGs requires planning and understanding not only the SDGs framework, but also many different other standards from your industry. SoPact's Impact Cloud can help create and align an organization's theory of change with SDG indicators, while also combining other standard metrics (and/or custom metrics) in a smart way. It makes SDG reporting simple, whatever the size of the organization.
Already gathering impact data?
If you are a corporate entity, an impact investor, an international development agency, or a philanthropic organization and you need to align your metrics to SDG goals and targets you need metrics mapping. A SaaS Platform like the one SoPact has built has 2,500+ metrics which help make this process seamless and cost-effective.
For example, a business would likely use SDGCompass-based mapping with 10+ standards such as GRI, CDP and others. Impact investors might use TONIIC T-100 mapping between SDG and IRIS. The Sopact platform includes all these frameworks. In addition, users can cross-link various other standards such as GRI (which tends to use more qualitative metrics) with IRIS (which tends to have quantitative metrics). By linking them together different users can create a rich reporting end result.
If you are just starting the impact measurement process, the first step is to define the goals and targets as per a Theory of Change. Then you'll align to other standards as described above and select appropriate metrics.
WHERE CAN YOU FIND SDG DATA?
