Australia

With the Australian Government recently bringing blended finance into their international development strategy, looking at how impact investment could bring real change in the region is timely.

Australia’s female immigrants’ physical and mental health urgently needs attention and assistance, and Wellsprings for Women’s activities have indeed brought many positive changes.

The Social Return On Investment framework is one of the tools we can use to evaluate projects, calculate the created social impact, and therefore bring societies closer to positive change.

The social enterprise sector in Australia is diverse. Social enterprises are facing significant challenges in communicating and measuring impact, but opportunities are arising to build capacity in impact measurement.