Resources and examples
Access practical tools and templates for impact management
As part of its consensus-building efforts for good impact measurement and management, the IMP has developed practical guidance, partnered with organisations to develop case studies, and championed others whose measurement and management approach demonstrates the norms agreed through the IMP. This page of resources and examples has been developed to support enterprises and investors working to better understand their impacts on people and the planet.
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- Reports and case studies that demonstrate the integration of the IMP norms into an enterprise or investor’s impact measurement and management practice
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In search of impact alpha
This case study uses impak’s sectoral, SDGs, revenue growth and share price analyses to understand the impacts of an investment portfolio.
Journey to impact in Asia
This inaugural impact report uses the impact management norms to analyse the environmental or social impact of ABC World’s prospective portfolio companies across a variety of countries and industries.
Impact reporting – disinvested communities
Sopact used the impact management norms to understand the impact of Capital Plus Financial’s services to support Hispanic homeownership in Texas.
Reporting on enterprise value: Illustrated with a prototype climate-related financial disclosure standard
Five leading organisations in sustainability and integrated reporting, who published a shared vision for a comprehensive corporate reporting system earlier this year, have published a paper that addresses one part of this system: standards for reporting on enterprise value, brought to life with a prototype climate-related financial disclosure standard.
Impact Champions case studies
BCtA’s case studies from its 2019 Impact Champions Programme use the five dimensions of impact to measure performance against goals set by the enterprises in the cohort. Click the link to access several case studies that demonstrate the impact management norms in practice.
Impact Investing Principles for Pensions
Together with Pensions for Purpose, the Impact Investing Institute developed four guiding principles for pension schemes that give an accessible, practical insight into the opportunity presented by impact investing and the concrete steps trustees can take to pursue an impact investing strategy.
10 years in search of impact: Impact report 2019
This report demonstrates how the impact management norms have helped Impact Finance to track and improve the impacts of its investments.
Managing for impact
Snowball’s report analyses the additional impact which the fund managers in its portfolio bring to the investments in their portfolios. Snowball surveyed 21 fund managers across its five categories of manager impact and moderated the managers’ self-assessed scores against its own proprietary impact framework, which was in part informed by the impact management norms.
Statement of Intent to Work Together Towards Comprehensive Corporate Reporting
Five global organisations, whose frameworks, standards and platforms guide the majority of sustainability and integrated reporting, announce a shared vision of what is needed for progress towards comprehensive corporate reporting – and the intent to work together to achieve it.
2014-2019 impact report
GROW uses social-franchising to establish financially sustainable Early Childhood Development (ECD) centres in disadvantaged communities across South Africa. This impact report – and accompanying impact statement – use the impact management norms to understand and track the performance of GROW’s impacts on its stakeholders.
Enhancing impact: Investor and enterprise contribution
This white paper explains the concept of enterprise contribution, as well as Wellington Management’s own contribution to the impact of its investments.
Impact-Financial Integration: A Handbook for Investors 日本語版 概要
IMPのワーキンググループ、Impact Frontiers Collaborationが公表した、「Impact-Financial Integration: A Handbook for Investors」の概要を日本語訳したものです。インパクト投資時のインパクト評価と財務評価の統合をどのように考えるべきか、投資家による実務的な課題と提案がまとまっています。
2019 impact report
Quona Capital illustrates how the impact management norms were used to understand the impact of its fintech investments to support financial inclusion in emerging markets.
Standardisation in impact management
This paper examines the IMP Practitioner Community’s views on what six elements of impact management can (or can’t) be standardised, following the discussions on the IMP’s discussion forum and corresponding huddles.
Impact ratings: Quantified, not monetised
This document summarises the conversations that took place with the IMP’s Practitioner Community around the usage, benefits and challenges of impact ratings.
Impact monetisation
The IMP convened its Practitioner Community to debate the challenges and merits of impact monetisation, which are summarised in this discussion document.
How to implement impact and financial integration techniques with Impact Frontiers
This webinar explores the key impact-financial integration concepts and methods developed by the Impact Frontiers Collaboration, and how they were applied to Calvert Impact Capital’s impact management processes.
Impact, a driver of value creation
This short study aims to support organisations with their impact management strategies by signposting to a variety of available frameworks and guidance.
Impact-financial integration: a handbook for investors
Impact Frontiers, an initiative of the IMP, is pioneering new ways to integrate impact management with financial management – now summarised in this investor handbook.
2020 impact report: Global Impact Pool
Kempen’s second publicly disclosed impact report summarises the impact that GIP is achieving at the level of the Fund, the underlying fund investments and at the investees level.