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AVPN-SROI Network Workshop on Social Impact Assessment – Hong Kong

By Asian Venture Philanthropy Network (AVPN)

Location

British Council, 3/F (Training Room)
3 Supreme Court Road, Admiralty, Hong Kong

MARKET

Hong Kong SAR China

Date & time

13 April 2015

9:00am

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13 April 2015

4:30pm

About this event

AVPN-logo-include-name_CMYK    sroi

Hong Kong Training

Course outline
The course covers current social impact environment in the UK, theoretical topics, methodology and the day-to-day practical application of social impact measurement tools and thinking.
PART ONE
History, context and current environment of SIA
  • What is social impact? Brief history of social impact assessment and the virtue ethics model
  • Trends in the UK and US: Moving to outcomes-based social impact investing and measurement and the advantages and disadvantages of this trend
  • General environment for social impact assessment in UK: policy environment; and practices in different sectors (government, corporate and non-profit).
  • The main methods and tools for outcomes-based social impact measurement (cost-benefit analysis, SROI, CEA etc) plus discussion of their relative advantages and disadvantages.
  • Benefits of measuring social impact for organizational decision-making and social investment.

PART TWO

Measuring social impact

  • Understanding your impact: An introduction to quantitative and qualitative research methods for understanding impact. This will be a non-technical introduction to the main concepts of impact analysis with guidelines on what types of impact assessment are acceptable and which to avoid.
  • An introduction to monetary valuation methods for use in cost-benefit analysis and SROI (including the Wellbeing Valuation approach, the latest thinking in social impact measurement).
    This will be a non-technical introduction covering the main concepts and rationale for monetary valuation.
  • Embedding social impact in you organisations, decision-making and investment strategy. Includes techniques for data collection for impact analysis, assessing impact reports and interpreting and using the results from social impact tools like cost-benefit analysis and SROI.
  • Key problems in social impact measurement. What it can and can’t do for your organization.

Speaker:

daniel_fujiwaraDaniel Fujiwara is the founding Director of SImetrica, a leading research consultancy in the field of social impact measurement and policy evaluation, and a member of the Centre for Economic Performance at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). He has over 10 years of experience working in government and in international organisations such as the Department for Work and Pensions (UK),the Cabinet Office (UK), the Ministry of Defence (UK) and the Ministry of Finance (Tanzania) and research positions at the United Nations (UNDP and UNOPS). Daniel’s research and work specializes in microeconomic theory, econometrics, non-market valuation, normative ethics and behavioural science as applied to policy evaluation. In 2012 Daniel was awarded the John Hoy Memorial Prize in Economics for his contribution to policy evaluation in the UK Government. Daniel holds a BSc and MSc in Economics, an MPhil in Social Policy and is completing a PhD in policy evaluation methodology at the LSE.

Course Fee:   HKD3,100 (USD400) [non-member]; HKD2,800 (USD360) [AVPN or HKI-SIA member]
Please register here to ensure a seat.
Should you have any questions, please contact [email protected].

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