Align your program with the SDGs: find out if it can be measured
Upload your program document and pick a goal from the 2030 Agenda. Each target comes back with the part of the program that addresses it and the page it is on.
Next to each target goes its official indicator: not just whether your program says something about it, but what it would be measured with.
- Target by target, with the page where it is covered
- The official indicator for each target, with its code
- The report is downloadable and ready to present
The text of the targets and indicators is the official United Nations text, and each report states which version it uses.
Where a mention becomes a commitment, and where it does not
Many programs cite the 2030 Agenda in the introduction and never come back to it. The comparison does not reward the mention: it asks which part of the document covers each target.
| Target | Where the program covers it | Completeness |
|---|---|---|
| 11.6 By 2030, reduce the adverse per capita environmental impact of cities, including by paying special attention to air quality and municipal and other waste management 11.6.1 · Proportion of municipal solid waste collected and managed in controlled facilities out of total municipal waste generated, by cities |
p. 4 The program provides for separate waste collection in six neighborhoods… p. 9 Waste is sent to the municipal transfer plant… |
4/5 · unconfirmed |
| 11.7 By 2030, provide universal access to safe, inclusive and accessible, green and public spaces, in particular for women and children, older persons and persons with disabilities 11.7.1 · Average share of the built-up area of cities that is open space for public use for all, by sex, age and persons with disabilities |
Not found. All 38 pages of the document were read and no passage was found. | — |
The second row is the typical finding, and the most uncomfortable one: the program was presented under the umbrella of SDG 11, and there are targets in that goal it does not touch. Knowing that before committing is worth more than discovering it at the first progress report.
The completeness score is an AI proposal with its reasoning, and it stays marked as such until a person confirms it. A number nobody has looked at, printed in a management document, is a measurement that never happened.
When you have to report and nobody built the chain
Local programs against global targets
A recycling, mobility or public space program that was presented as aligned with an SDG. See which targets it really touches.
Sector plans and their follow-up
Before committing to indicators in a plan, check what they will be measured against.
Externally funded projects
Funders ask for explicit alignment. HILO shows it target by target, with the quotation.
Diagnoses and evaluations
The document review that opens every evaluation, done in an afternoon and with citable evidence.
Three steps, nothing to install
- Upload the program document. Word or PDF, as it is.
- Pick the goals. Once the document opens, the tool switches to the “SDGs” tab, with the 17 goals of the 2030 Agenda in view and their official text: tick one or more and click “Continue”. If you report against another framework, the “Check against a list” tab lets you upload your own list of targets or type it in.
- Check, read the table and download the report. Review the targets, click “Check” and get the table target by target, with the pages where it is covered and the official indicator for each one.
In English, from the official United Nations document, the global indicator framework for the SDGs. In Portuguese, the targets come from the UN in Brazil and the indicators stay in English, because the UN does not publish them in Portuguese. Each report states which source and version it used.
Yes. Besides the published standards, you can upload your own targets document or type them in. The tool compares against whatever you give it.
This tool tells you which targets your program addresses, which it does not, and what official indicator each one would be measured with. To build the full chain of objectives, outcomes and your own targets with their indicators, HILO has a separate tool: build the results chain.
It can. The search is by meaning and not by words, so a target covered with very different vocabulary can be missed. That is why each target comes back with its evidence and not a verdict: the table is for someone to review.
Up to 50, which is enough for two complete goals.
The document you review is, in your browser, so you can come back to it. The standard you compare against is not saved: it is read and discarded.
Try it with the program you have at hand
Upload the document, pick a goal and see which targets it addresses and which it does not.