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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Seed impact studies
Many of Stanford’s students have used the impact management norms to help research how its Seed companies across Africa and India are contributing to the SDGs.
Classifying a company’s types of impact on people and the planet
This webinar discusses how the impact management norms can help enterprises to better understand their impacts positive and negative impacts on people and the planet, so that they can work to reduce the negative and increase the positive.
Impact measurement for complex porfolios
This primer demonstrates how the IMP’s impact management norms can be applied to globally diversified, multi-manager portfolios.
L’investissement d’impact: Le troisième facteur de l’équation risque-rendement
Ce rapport explique comment Fiera Capital a adopté la ligne directrice de l’IMP et l’a utilisé pour quantifier l’impact d’une société en lui donnant le pointage d’impact Fiera (PIF).
Impact investing: A third factor to the risk/return mindset
This report demonstrates how the IMP’s guidance has helped Fiera Capital to quantify a company’s Impact in the form of the Fiera Impact Score, and then use it to rate investment opportunities and determine its suitability.
Technology enabled impact reporting practice across the investment chain
This report highlights that while progress in impact reporting practice is being made, the challenges to effective impact reporting practice are great.
SVT integrated report 2017-2018
SVT Group shows how it considers its social, environmental and financial performance as part of its annual reporting process.
What we’ve learnt about measuring impact
This handbook provides investors, businesses and private sector development practitioners with an overview of tools and methods for effective and appropriately tailored data collection for impact measurement and management.
Impact Report: 2019 Financial Year
This report illustrates how the IMP norms have helped the IIG to screen investments, and manage and assess its impact performance.
A guide to classifying the impact of investments
This provides asset owners and managers with high-level step-by-step guidance to classify the impact of individual investment products.
Emerging consensus on investor contribution
Everyone knows that enterprises have enormous impacts on people and the planet, but what do investors specifically add to those impacts? The IMP is facilitating discussions around investor contribution via the use of this discussion document.
Having a positive impact through public markets investments
Neuberger Berman illustrates how it is possible to have a positive impact at scale through public markets strategies to guide investor decision-making, both during diligence and as they engage to improve impact performance.