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Impact Management Project
The Impact Management Project (IMP) is an unprecedented opportunity to reach consensus on how we measure and therefore manage impact.
Introduction
The Impact Management Project (IMP) is a forum for building global consensus on how to measure, report, compare and improve impact performance.
The IMP convenes a Practitioner Community of over 2,000 organisations to debate and find consensus on good impact measurement and management, and share best practices.
It also facilitates the IMP Structured Network – an unprecedented collaboration of organisations that, through their specific and complementary expertise, are coordinating efforts to provide complete standards for impact measurement, management and reporting.
Join Us
Impact Frontiers Asia: Get involved with our 15-month capacity building programme
A 15-month capacity building programme for impact investors in Asia to advance impact management and fully integrate impact into financial frameworks, processes, and systems.
Integrate impact-financial performance
- Use your own data to create your own approach, customized to your organization’s unique context, strategy, and goals.
- Get support in building buy-in and leading change within your organization.
- Lean on thought partnership from Impact Frontiers, AVPN, the IMP, and other initiative partners.
Collaboration drives learning and innovation
- Explore challenges specific to individual asset classes.
- Cross-fertilize ideas across asset classes, investor types, and geographies.
- Work together to find ways to improve the flow of impact information between companies, asset managers, and asset owners.
Emphasis on confidentiality
- Safe forum in which leading investors can experiment with new approaches, learn from peers, and advance shared goals.
- Workshops and meetings held under Chatham House Rule.
- All cohort members sign non-disclosure agreements to hold all materials confidential.
Measure Impact
The five dimensions to measure impact
After a series of consultations with its Practitioner Community, the IMP reached consensus that impact can be deconstructed into five dimensions: What, Who, How Much, Contribution and Risk.
Collecting data for each dimension enables enterprises, and their investors, to assess and manage their impact in a consistent and comparable manner, and then set goals against one or more dimensions to improve their impact.
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What
What outcome(s) do business activities drive? How important are these outcomes to the people (or planet) experiencing them?
02
Who
Who experiences the outcome? How underserved are the stakeholders in relation to the outcome?
03
How Much
How much of the outcome occurs across scale, depth, and duration?
04
Contribution
What is the enterprise’s contribution to what would likely happen anyway? What is the investor’s contribution that enables the enterprises they invest in to have an impact?
05
Risk
What is the risk to people and planet that impact does not occur as expected?
Supports
The IMP is supported by a diverse group of funders
The IMP is supported by a diverse group of funders and is shaped by the input of more than 2,000 organisations and practitioners from across the global investment value chain, including the following AVPN members:
Thailand
Aspen Network of Development Entrepreneurs
The Aspen Network of Development Entrepreneurs (ANDE) is a global network of organizations that propel entrepreneurship in emerging markets....
United States
Ford Foundation
The Ford Foundation is a private American foundation with headquarters in New York and regional offices in 10 other countries, including China. Established in...
United States
Global Impact Investing Network (GIIN)
The Global Impact Investing Network is a nonprofit organization dedicated to increasing the scale and effectiveness of impact investing around the world....
United Kingdom
Global Steering Group
Singapore
GreenArc Capital
GreenArc Capital focuses on sourcing and structuring scalable credit solutions to deploy capital with positive societal, economic and environmental outcomes in select Asian Emerging...
Singapore
Impact Investment Exchange Pte Ltd (IIX)
Impact Investment Exchange (IIX) is a Singapore-based impact enterprise that builds pathways to connect backstreets of underserved communities to the Wall Streets of the...
Japan
Japan Social Innovation and Investment Foundation (SIIF)
SIIF aims to catalyze a new capital flow model that transcends existing boundaries between private, public, and civil sectors. SIIF seeks to nurture a...
India
MacArthur Foundation
MacArthur Foundation supports creative people, effective institutions, and influential networks building a more just, verdant, and peaceful world....
Canada
Mennonite Economic Development Associates (MEDA)
For over 60 years, MEDA has been designing and implementing effective market-driven programs around the world, enabling millions of people to realize their economic...
France
OECD Global Network of Foundations (netFWD)
The OECD Global Network of Foundations Working for Development is a group of self-selected foundations committed to optimising the impact of philanthropy....
Hong Kong SAR China
RS Group
The RS Group is an organization that aims to use its resources to support the creation of a more sustainable and equitable global community....
United Kingdom
Social Value International
Social Value International is the global network focused on social impact and social value that aims to change the way society accounts for value....
United Kingdom
Thomson Reuters Foundation
The Thomson Reuters Foundation stands for free, independent journalism, human rights, women’s empowerment, and the rule of law....
United States
Toniic
Toniic is the global action community for deeper impact investing. Toniic’s members are high net-worth individuals, family offices and foundations from more than 25 countries...
Thailand
United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
Who we are UNDP Regional Bureau for Asia and the Pacific (RBAP), with 24 Country Offices covering work in 36 countries and decades of...
India
Vera Solutions Private Limited
Vera Solutions is a mission-driven global technology consulting company that works with non-profits, social enterprises, and foundations to transform the way they work. Our...
