SDG

Goal 1: End Poverty in All Its Forms

Everywhere

• Create employment opportunities

● Informal enterprises engage with poor

and marginalized populations

○ Informal enterprises - businesses that

are not officially registered with the

government. (e.g., street food vendors)

● MSMEs can take direct action in their

business practice:

○ Strict policies and practices that are

anti-discriminatory to the poor

○ Hire and train local community

members

● New business models/strategies of MSMes

to help achieve the goal:

○ Mobile phone penetration

○ Micro-franchising

Goal 2: End Hunger, Achieve Food Security

and Improve Nutrition, and Promote

Sustainable Agriculture

● Direct contributors to the goal: Smallholder

farmers and agricultural-focused

MSMEs

● MSMEs can take direct action in their

business practice:

○ Support and encourage small-scale

farming

○ Conduct nutrition education and

awareness programs

● New business models/strategies of MSMes

to help achieve the goal:

○ Climate-smart agriculture approaches

Goal 3: Ensure Healthy Lives and Promote

Well-being for All

● MSMEs are healthcare providers

● Bridges the healthcare gap:

○ Better-quality healthcare services

○ Provision of a wider range of basic

laboratory and imaging services

○ Challenges: Lack of strict regulatory

standards and lack of resources

● MSMEs can take direct action in their

business practice:

○ Make Investments in health a priority

○ Offer employee health benefits

● New business models/strategies of MSMes

to help achieve the goal:

○ Boosts healthcare with affordable care,

digital services, and better disease

management (e.g., low-cost surgery,

electronic medical records, etc.)

Goal 4: Ensure Inclusive and Equitable

Quality Education and Promote Lifelong

Opportunities

● Providers of technical and vocational

education

● Complementary formal education

providers

● MSMEs can take direct action in their

business practice:

○ Create corporate training programs

to prepare students

○ Provide employees with continuous

learning opportunities

○ Improve ECE importance awareness

among employees

○ Investment in education

programming by using their voices

● New business models/strategies of MSMes

to help achieve the goal:

○ Online/Remote learning and

educational opportunities

○ Digital Education

Goal 5: Achieve Gender Equality and

Empower All Women and Girls

● A significant proportion of MSMEs are

owned by women.

● MSMEs employ women

○ Women constitute 1⁄5 of the total

workforce

○ Issue: Face low pay, poor conditions,

and little social or legal protection.

○ Inclusive finance can bridge the gender

gap

● MSMEs can take direct action in their

business practice:

○ Adopt gender inclusive policies

Goal 6: Ensure Availability and Sustainable

Management of Water and Sanitation

● Deliver water and sanitation services.

● MSMEs can take direct action in their

business practice:

○ Ensures that the workplace has wash

facilities and practices proper

cleaning measures

○ Prioritize water efficiency

○ Prohibits the use of chemicals

● New business models/strategies of MSMes

to help achieve the goal:

○ “Clean Technology”

Goal 7: Ensure Access to Affordable, Reliable,

Sustainable, and Modern Energy

● Have the potential to become more energy

efficient

○ Issues: Lack of local service providers,

lack of availability of technologies, and

limited access to credit

● Can be incentivized by larger

enterprises

● MSME Finance - can contribute to Goal 7

● MSMEs can take direct action in their

business practice:

○ Pursue energy-efficient certifications

○ Prioritize energy efficiency across all

operations

○ Invest in skill development to enable

clean technology adoption

● New business models/strategies of MSMes

to help achieve the goal:

○ Renewable generators and equipment

manufacturers

Goal 8: Promote Sustained, Inclusive and

Sustainable Economic Growth, Full and

Productive Employment and Decent Work

● Contribute to GDP and economic growth

● Create jobs and have the potential for

promoting decent work and

entrepreneurship:

○ Issues: Low salaries, insecurity, and

not fully covered by social protection

● MSME Finance - a target for Goal 8

○ Issue: Credit gap

● MSMEs can take direct action in their

business practice:

○ Offer apprenticeship opportunities

○ Foster entrepreneurial culture

○ Invest in/mentor young entrepreneurs

○ Instill a firm policy against unfair

hiring

○ Promote decent work standards

Goal 9: Build Resilient Infrastructure, Promote

Inclusive and Sustainable Industrialization,

and Foster Innovation

● Directly relevant to the goal: Small-scale

industrial enterprises

● MSME Finance - small-scale industrial

enterprises will contribute to the goal

● Promotes innovation

● MSMEs can take direct action in their

business practice:

○ Set standards and regulations for

sustainable management

○ Enable stakeholders to propose

solutions to sustainability

challenges

● New business models/strategies of MSMes

to help achieve the goal:

○ Replicate and commercialize

technology

○ Add value in a range or areas (e.g.,

software, nanotechnology, etc.)

Goal 10: Reduced Inequality Within and

Among Countries

● Promote economic inclusion and have

the potential to regenerate underserved

geographic areas

● Increasing the productivity of MSMEs can

help reduce wage inequality

● MSMEs can take direct action in their

business practice:

○ Adopt equal remuneration policies

○ Provide social protection

mechanisms

○ Organizing skills training and career

coaching opportunities

● New business models/strategies of MSMes

to help achieve the goal:

○ Social enterprises

Goal 11: Make Cities and Human Settlements

Inclusive, Safe, Resilient, and Sustainable

● Provide employment and economic

growth in cities

● MSMEs can take direct action in their

business practice:

○ Jointly develop and/or participate in a

sustainable community

● New business models/strategies of MSMes

to help achieve the goal:

○ Business opportunities: Affordable

housing, road safety, shared offices,

electric/hybrid vehicles, etc.

Goal 12: Ensure Sustainable Consumption

and Production Patterns

● Have significant cumulative social and

environmental impacts

● Promotes public procurement practices

that are sustainable

● Can contribute to sustainability reporting

● MSMEs can take direct action in their

business practice:

○ Reduce manufacturing impacts

○ Significantly reduce waste

○ Conduct a simple audit

Goal 13: Take Urgent Action to Combat

Climate Change and its Impacts

● Have the potential to make vulnerable

populations and households climate

resilient

● Heavy energy users have the potential to

contribute to mitigation

● Can contribute to the adaptation of

economic activities/sectors

● MSMEs can take direct action in their

business practice:

○ Conduct energy audits and implement

changes

○ Assess climate risks and build asset

and supply-chain resilience

○ Promote sustainable forest

management via responsible sourcing

○ Create Green Travel Policy

○ Engage communities to encourage

adaptive practices

Goal 14: Conserve and Sustainably Use the

Oceans, Seas, and Marine Resources

● Directly relevant to the goal: Small-scale

fishery and marine-based enterprises

● Building MSME capabilities to promote the

sustainability of value chains

● MSMEs can take direct action in their

business practice:

○ Track the product life cycle

○ Record and disclose chemical and

material use

○ Prevent waste mismanagement and

littering

○ Assess climate risks and build

supply-chain resilience

○ Emerging trends: marine resources for

drugs and cosmetics, and marine

renewable energy

Goal 15: Protect, Restore, and Promote

Sustainable Use of Terrestrial Ecosystems

● Key roles in conserving land ecosystems:

Agribusinesses and smallholder farmers

play

● MSMEs can take direct action in their

business practice:

○ Measure and reduce impacts on

ecosystems and resources

○ Scale up best land-use practices

○ Implement responsible sourcing

beyond compliance

● New business models/strategies of MSMes

to help achieve the goal:

○ Commercial potential in the sector

related to ecological restoration

Goal 16: Promote Peaceful and Inclusive

Societies

● Have the potential to promote good

governance principles

● Have a role in conflict/violence

prevention

● MSMEs can take direct action in their

business practice:

○ Comply with laws to meet international

standards

○ Conduct risk assessment

○ Support or encourage employee

participation in violence-prevention

training programs.

● New business models/strategies of MSMes

to help achieve the goal:

○ Traceability schemes and initiatives

Goal 17: Strengthen the Means of

Implementation and Revitalize the Global

Partnership

● Account for a significant share of added

value in international trade when indirect

linkages are taken into account.

● A source of partnership to implement

SDGs

● A source of data for SDG monitoring and

reporting

● MSMEs can take direct action in their

business practice:

○ Take the initiative to collaborate with a

local charity that the organization

supports.

○ Partake in SDG-related partnerships

● New business models/strategies of MSMes

to help achieve the goal:

○ Global Value Chains (GVCs)

○ Constraints: Access to information,

skills, technology, finance, trade

facilitation, and connectivity