The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) SDG Impact Standards for Enterprise is a practical guide and self-assessment tool aiming to provide a common language and a clear system to integrate SDGs into all business and investment decision-making processes, thus aiding the delivering progress of the UN-SDGs by 2030. 

The SDG Impact Standards are framed across four interconnected,  interdependent themes familiar to all businesses and investors — strategy, management approach, transparency, and governance. Instead of creating a new assessment tool, the standards focuses on leveraging existing frameworks and specifically deal with the classification, identification, and management of material sustainable development issues, so that the Enterprise can make the most significant impacts on important outcomes.