Impact Management

What does ‘social value’ actually mean? How is it used in practice? Stephanie Robertson and Ada Yip, co-chairs at Social Value International, have the answers in our latest explainer.

The Yang Sheng Foundation (YSF) launched the Self-Healing Enhancement Program for the elderly in Taiwan, bringing out significant social value, as demonstrated in the original report.

Impact-Weighted Accounts represent a significant leap forward in a quest for a more sustainable and equitable global economy. Developing and adopting a systematic IWA framework can guide us towards more responsible and transparent business practices, fostering an economic system that truly benefits all stakeholders.

Impact verification involves independent assessments of investors’ impact management processes or impact performance against industry standards. It plays a crucial role in building trust and credibility in impact investing, addressing concerns about impact-washing.

The amount of social activities has grown over the years, increasing transparency, accountability, and legitimacy needs. It incited a rapid increase in the development of different impact measurement methods.

Social enterprise pioneer Freer Spreckley explains why accounting for all costs is essential – and proposes an update of the social accounting and audit system he first designed in the 1980s.

Editor of Generation Impact highlights important themes of the book, elucidating the imperative of impact management and impact accounting for an equitable and sustainable future.

An analysis of the marketization and commodification of ‘Social Value’ within third-sector organizations, in the case of SIBs and SROI.

Assurance Framework Lead of SDG Impact Standards explains the new flagship decision-making tool of UNDP toward sustainability and against Impact Washing.

The complexity and progress in impact measurement focus mainly on four critical areas: choosing appropriate tools, the stakeholder’s involvement, the controversy over standardization, and the development of frameworks for large-scale evaluations.