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.
BEAM Exchange Evidence Map
This database classifies enterprises’ impacts by their level of evidence risk.
Social outcomes matrix
The outcomes matrix and measures are a tool to help social investment financial intermediaries and social sector organisations to manage their social impact.
Responsible Global Equity Strategy
This publication shares BMO Global Asset Management’s impact management strategy for listed equities – and how the IMP convention is used to shape it.
Case Studies in Youth Employment
This report explores the impact management practices of over 30 organisations – funders, investors and enterprises – working in youth employment globally.
Constructing a portfolio on the efficient impact-financial frontier
This report provides guidance for individual funds within a single asset class who are looking to build a portfolio with both financial and impact goals.
Datahub for Field Experiments in Economics and Public Policy
This repository contains mostly data from randomized experiments, run by researchers associated with IPA and J-PAL.
Demonstrating Additionality
This publication provides the key principles for demonstrating additionality in private sector development initiatives.
Net Contribution Framework
This podcast discusses Heron Foundation’s Net Contribution Framework.
Evidence Framework
This interactive resource outlines logic models for generating pro-poor impacts.
How do we know if impact has occurred?
This report explores how collecting evidence of impact is important for impact management.
How do we know if we’re contributing to the SDGs?
This infographic illustrates how we need to understand performance across the five dimensions of impact in order to understand an enterprise’s contribution to the SDGs.
Emerging Consensus about Impact Goals
Through the consensus-building efforts of the IMP, people around the world have been sharing their understanding of impact, and their insights into how we can talk about our impact goals in a way that everyone understands.
Exploring how beneficiaries describe their impact expectations
This report looks at how people’s experiences with social services and activities have influenced their impact expectations, goals and priorities.
How people describe the impact they experienced
This report help us to understand what people’s expectations are when buying or engaging with products or services.
Feedback Labs
Feedback Labs advocates for feedback loops to understand stakeholder perspectives.
Baseline Basics
This publication considers how enterprises can conduct reliable and useful baseline studies.
Core business resources
A set of environmental and social goals for businesses based on scientific research.
Impact management case study in off-grid energy
This study highlights the value of collecting data across all five dimensions of impact to conduct a full impact measurement and management process.
IRIS+
This database includes generally accepted metrics for measuring impact performance.
Impact Audits
This database of impact audits demonstrate how enterprises are making a positive impact on vulnerable communities.