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Overview

The SDG Impact Assessment Tool is an interactive online platform designed to assist organizations in evaluating their activities' alignment with the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Developed through a collaborative effort by academic institutions and supported by regional funding, this tool serves as a learning resource to deepen the understanding of SDG complexities and to guide strategic decision-making towards sustainability. It is structured around a self-assessment methodology that encourages collaborative analysis and prioritization of actions. While it is not a scientific verification of SDG impact, it provides a structured approach to identifying positive and negative impacts, as well as knowledge gaps, related to the SDGs.

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Dimensions

Resource type: The SDG Impact Assessment Tool is a learning tool that visualizes the results from a self-assessment of how an activity, organization, or innovation affects the SDGs.

• Tags: tool, online

Objective: The primary goal of the tool is to facilitate the assessment of activities in relation to the SDGs and to promote strategic sustainability alignment.

• Tags: map assess, align

Target audience: The tool is designed for a diverse audience, including those involved in education, research, and various organizational roles focused on sustainability.

• Tags: researchers, students, educators, practitioners, policy-makers, nonprofits, corporations

Sustainability focus: The tool emphasizes all three pillars of sustainability and encourages users to consider the environmental, social, and economic impacts of their activities.

• Tags: environmental-sustainability, social-sustainability, economic-sustainability, SDGs

Innovation type: The tool supports organizations in developing social, technological and policy innovative approaches to sustainability challenges.

• Tags: social-innovation, business-model-innovation, technological-innovation , policy-innovation

Entrepreneurship stage: The tool is applicable across various stages of entrepreneurship, from early ideation through to mature organizations seeking to align with SDGs.

• Tags: ideation, design, development, implementation, startup, growth, scale-up, maturity

Scope of relevance: The tool has a global scope, as it is based on the universal SDGs, but it can be contextualized to national or local settings.

• Tags: global, national, local

Methodological approach: The tool's methodology is based on a structured self-assessment process that involves qualitative analysis and discussion.

• Tags: qualitative-research, theoretical-frameworks

Skill development: Using the tool can enhance skills in systems thinking, strategic planning, and sustainability assessment.

• Tags: systems-thinking, strategic-planning, sustainability-assessment

Source and credibility: The tool is developed by reputable academic institutions and is based on SDGs framework. The tool is used in several pilot projects.

• Tags: academic-institutions, recognized-experts, SDGs

Prerequisites and requirements: The tool is designed to be accessible to a wide audience, with no specific prerequisites required for its use, although a basic understanding of SDGs can be useful.

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Collaboration level: The assessment process encourages collaboration among team members to leverage diverse expertise and perspectives.

• Tags: team, community-engagement, cross-team-collaboration

More information can be found at SDG Impact Assessment Tool.

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