The goal of impact measurement is to manage and control the process of creating social impact in order to maximise or optimise it (relative to costs). Based on best practices from the field, this guide is filled with tips on how to implement impact measurement in five easy-to-understand steps, at the level of both the social investors and their investees.
Launched in 2013, the guide was updated mid-2015 to include information on its uptake, the challenges that practitioners continue to face, its contribution to policy work, and EVPA’s future plans in terms of research on impact measurement and management.
The impact measurement standard used here is endorsed by the European Commission as the EU-wide best practice standard of impact measurement.
You can download this report for free. Should you want to add it to your website, please link to this webpage. This is the English version of the publication. You can download the French, Spanish and Swedish version at the bottom of this page.
Curious to see how we have combined our five-step process with SVI’s principles of social value? EVPA and Social Value International (SVI) work to help investors for impact and social purpose organisations (SPOs) set up impact management systems that are solid and deliver information that is useful to maximise the value for the final beneficiaries.
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Impact Management Principles - pdf 371.878 KBThis article was written by
Anna-Marie Harling
Dr. Lisa Hehenberger
Peter Scholten
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