The European Investment Bank Group supports the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals throughout the European Union and around the world. This brochure explains how the two arms of the Group, the EIB and the EIF, track and assess their contributions to the goals through rich data and a number of case studies.
In financial and project output and outcome terms, the EIB’s methodology for SDG
reporting is comparable to those adopted by other multilateral development banks.
All EIB-supported projects are designed to have positive socioeconomic impact as well
as sound financial returns. The impact of the Bank’s work is measured by gathering
a detailed set of output and outcome data for all its projects. This ensures that the
tangible benefits of the Bank’s activities are calculated not only in the context of each
project, but also at the sectoral, national and international level.
The EIB’s mapping methodology defines the relationship between its projectlevel
indicators and the SDGs. All indicators are mapped to the appropriate SDGs
independently of project context, and each indicator may be mapped to up to two
different SDGs. Each project thus contributes to all of the SDGs to which its data has
been mapped. This approach takes into account the full range of interactions and
interlinkages among the SDGs and minimises the number of arbitrary decisions
required in the mapping process.
