Download - Common Ground - Jeremy Nicholls
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Towards common principles of Social Impact analysis
Big Society Capital Outcomes Matrix
www.globalvaluexchange.org
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SASB
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And shared explanations
IRIS – SROIGIIRS – SROIIRIS - GIIRS
Sources of Confusion
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Sources of Confusion
There are lots of ways of measuring social impact
Sources of Confusion
There are lots of ways of measuring social impact
There are many impacts which may need different tools to measure them
But
There are NOT many ways of deciding which outcomes to measure
Sources of Confusion
Level of accuracy required depends on the audience
Sources of ConfusionWhat are we trying to do with all this measurement?
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What questions do you think we need to answer to know
How much of a difference we have made?
Have we made as much of a difference as we can
with the resources available?
Results for what
These questions would be the principles
What do we need to know? 1. What are the outcomes/issues?
2. How can we measure the outcome?
3. Which outcomes are important enough for us to manage (be accountable for)?
4. To what extent were the outcomes/issues caused by our activities?
5. Do we need to choose between different activities creating different outcomes?
6. Who answered these questions?
7. How accurate do we need to be?
8. Are the results credible so that we can use them?
Most consistent principle but……Stakeholders….
stakeholder involvement
Is not the same as
stakeholder consultation or engagement
Main groupingsThose approaches that recognise many outcomes and so need an approach to deciding which to manage materiality
Those that recognise that without benchmarking or counterfactual we don’t know how much difference we have made
Those that put different things on a single yardstick to help decision making
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Advantages of standardising principles? – Why? Why not?
How would we get more standardisation of principles?