Within the framework of the United for the SDGs Alliance, which includes the United Nations Global Compact Network Colombia, the Corona Foundation, the Bolívar Davivienda Foundation and the Bogotá Chamber of Commerce, and where the Development, Innovation and Sustainability Group (Grupo DIS) and the Center for Systemic Economics Studies (ECSIM) are its Technical Operators, this document is the Executive Summary version of the results of the Second measurement of the private sector's contribution to the SDGs.

To serve as input for the formulation of public policies, among other objectives, the National Planning Department (DNP), UNDP and the GRI, created the SDG Corporate Tracker tool that evaluates the business contribution around the 17 SDGs.

To help understand the private sector's contribution to the SDGs, the United for the SDGs Alliance has conducted two measurements of corporate contributions, including this one. For the second measurement of the private sector's contribution to achieving the SDGs, the Alliance, through its partner the Bogotá Chamber of Commerce, joined the SDG Corporate Tracker. With this new source of information, this measurement included two data sources. First, the information reported by 86 companies on the SDG Corporate Tracker platform, and second, a systematic review of 285 GRI or Sustainability Reports (164 for 2018 and 121 for 2019).

In aggregate, the 2018 sample includes the analysis of 228 companies with more than 760,000 employees¹ representing more than 270 trillion pesos; the 2019 sample includes 121 companies with more than 460,000 employees that generated more than 220 trillion pesos. In the aggregated sample, which compares the same companies in both time periods, there are 75 companies with more than 365,000 employees and 180 trillion pesos generated.

Author(s): DIS Group, ECSIM Foundation. An alliance of Global Compact Colombia, Bolívar Davivienda Foundation, Bogotá Chamber of Commerce and Corona Foundation.

Year: 2021