Accreditation and Its Alignment With Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

Accreditation and compliance with Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in the education, health, and business arenas on quality education (SDG 4), good health (SDG 3), and industry innovation (SDG 9), respectively. Systematic review of 50 multidisciplinary studies identifies that accreditation models increasingly work with the principles of sustainability using ISO and EFQM standards to enhance accountability and quality of services through the taking up of emergent applications such as AI-influenced curriculum mapping and collective networks. Nonetheless, incidental coverage and infrequent long-term analysis of effect continue to hold back progress. Barriers vary from resource deficiency and institutional resistance to fractional reportage whereas leadership and governance emerge as success facilitators. The synthesis identifies a need for standardized metrics and integrating frameworks to best accomplish the contribution of the SDGs with the optimization of policy, practice, and future scholarship in the direction of robust assessment and cross-sectoral standardization.