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The SDG Impact Standards for Private Equity Funds provide a decision-making framework for integrating the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) into one or more funds.

This is a cross-cutting resource, meaning that it supports the internal impact management process as a whole, rather than one or a few of the Actions of Impact Management.

Country-level data and insights about SDG-enabling investment opportunities. This work focuses on the gap between interest in investing in SDGs and the business models that could provide investable opportunities.

Use this resource to:

• Identify: Identify investment themes in emerging markets which have significant potential to advance the SDGs that are aligned to government policies and sustainable national development needs.

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This certification process assesses to what extent the Principles of Social Value are embedded in an organisation’s systems and processes. The certificate has three levels that set out a progression pathway for organisations looking to continuously improve how they optimise social value for their stakeholders.

Use this resource for the following Actions of Impact Management:

• Verification, assurance and certification: Certify that an organisation’s systems and processes adhere to the Principles of Social Value.

Standard and guidance on how to apply the first of SVI’s Social Value Principles.

Use this resource to:

• Identify: Use the guidance on identifying stakeholders and engaging with them to understand actual and potential significant impacts.
• Set targets and plan: Use the guidance on identifying stakeholders, engaging with them, and collecting information to help shape strategy and objectives.

Standard and guidance on how to apply the second of SVI’s Social Value Principles.

Use this resource to:

• Measure, assess and value: Engage with stakeholders to collaboratively agree on which outcomes to measure. This practice standard contains guidance on how an organisation can examine ‘chains of events’ and engage with stakeholders to decide the most appropriate point of measurement to support management decision-making (framed as ‘well-defined’ outcomes).

Forthcoming: Standard and guidance on how to apply the second of SVI’s Social Value Principles.

Use this resource to:

• Measure, assess and value: Design custom metrics. This practice standard builds on Part 1, which outlines how to design custom metrics to measure a ‘well-defined’ outcome.

Standard and guidance on how to apply the third of SVI’s Social Value Principles.

Use this resource to:

• Measure, assess and value: Use the guidance to value impacts from the perspective of affected stakeholders. This standard emphasises the importance of using data collected directly from stakeholders.

Standard and guidance on how to apply the fourth of SVI’s Social Value Principles.

Use this resource to:

• Measure, assess and value: Follow the guidance to determine whether an impact is significant to people or the environment, requiring management.

This document sets the SVI Standard to apply Principle 6: Be Transparent. The essence of this Principle is to take action; to make decisions about social value in response to data and measurement.

Use this resource to:

• Communicate: Demonstrate the basis on which the analysis may be considered accurate and honest, and show that it will be reported to and discussed with stakeholders.