Impact Measurement and Management
Recommendations:
Projects:
Published report: Making Better Decisions: Impact Measurement and Management in South Africa
Supported development of The Responsible Investment and Ownership – A Guide for Pension Funds in South Africa
Contributor to Alexander Forbes Collective Insights publication
Objectives:
Raise awareness
- Accelerate adoption of globally accepted terminology
- Support market participants to map investments according to emerging, best in class, classification systems
- Build case for impact measurement and management
Improve IMM Practice
- Build trainings to address capacity gaps at (i) senior leadership (ii) practitioners/investors (iii) M&E sector/service providers level
- Assess existing capacity and track improvement
Enable greater harmonisation by adopting market-leading frameworks
- Drive the adoption of leading frameworks that address activities across the investment process
- Encourage the participation of local practitioners in global market building efforts to develop frameworks/ tools/ taxonomies
Build a culture of transparency and disclosure
- Support development of social compact around measuring and managing impact (including incentives and consequences)
- Support efforts to strengthen mandatory, specific reporting on sustainable indicators through existing initiatives
- Drive efforts to strengthen voluntary reporting on SDG-aligned impact outcomes
- Promote third party verification of impact
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Working Group members:
Chair
Candice Morkel
Asgar Bhikoo
Development Bank of South Africa
Tshikululu Social Investments
Next Generation Consultants