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
- Open source guidelines that enable organisations to better understand their impacts
- Academic papers or research articles that aim to advance progress in the area of ESG and impact measurement, management and disclosure
- Databases of research and evaluations around impact measurement and management, that promote best practice and transparency in reporting data.
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.
Using self-reported data for impact measurement
This guide shows how surveying can be used to collect data for each of the five dimensions of impact.
Impact @ Impax
Impax Asset Management’s 2019 environmental impact report uses the IMP norms to measure and disclose the impact performance of its individual portfolio companies.
Impact due diligence guide
The Guide is a how-to for engaging in impact due diligence and contains actionable advice and guidance for both novices as well as seasoned experts in impact measurement and management
Impact due diligence: Emerging best practices
This report surfaces the shared impact due diligence approaches employed by leading impact investors.