SIGMA Project - Sustainability Integrated Guidelines for Management

The SIGMA Project - Sustainability Integrated Guidelines for Management was launched in 1999 with the support of the UK Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) and is led by:

• British Standards Institution - the leading standards organisation
• Forum for the Future - a leading sustainability charity and think-tank
• AccountAbility - the international professional body for accountability.

The SIGMA project has developed the SIGMA Guidelines and a series of tools to provide clear, practical advice to organisations to enable them to make a meaningful contribution to sustainable development.

The SIGMA Guidelines consist of:
• a set of Guiding Principles that help organisations to understand sustainability and their contribution to it.
• a Management Framework that integrates sustainability issues into core processes and mainstream decision-making. It is structured into phases and sub-phases.

The SIGMA Toolkit, consists of targeted tools and approaches to help with specific management challenges, and case studies explaining how organisations have used the SIGMA Guidelines and Toolkit to tackle real issues.
More information including the full SIGMA Guidelines and the accompanying SIGMA Toolkit are available at: www.projectsigma.com.

The Sigma Guidelines - TOOLKIT here