Valuing Impact

🔍Super-charging due-diligence processes with impact valuation screening assessment🌍 Quantitative impact assessment has traditionally been considered impractical for investor due diligence due to data gaps and resource limitations. Valuing Impact is breaking old barriers by supporting SRF Impact in using the eQALY impact valuation method to be used in due diligence assessments and operationalized through an Excel tool with a user interface and dashboard. This dashboard provides both the absolute societal valuation of those companies and their societal return on investment or IMOIC (Impact Multiple On Invested Capital) We tested the impact valuation approach on three potential deals in the USA tackling issues such as: ▶️ Professional skills acquisition for immigrants. ▶️ Employee stock ownership. ▶️ Affordable real estate for underserved communities. This case study taught us valuable lessons, including: ▶️ It is possible and practical: Impact valuation helps effectively in making pre-investment decisions in a very short period of time (usually less than 1-2 weeks). ▶️ Comparing capabilities is key to avoiding human biases: Without quantitative impact data, comparing deals and understanding their absolute impact is impossible. ▶️ Understand risk and opportunities based on the same method: Impact valuation provides a deep understanding of the most critical impact drivers at the deal level and highlights risks and opportunities to structure a deal on its material impact. ▶️ Impact scale-up opportunities are established from the due diligence phase: Realizing an early-stage impact valuation allows us to establish a strong foundation to manage an investment and collect the right data actively. Read more about this project in our blog: https://lnkd.in/dXVtdNka Exciting times ahead as we pave the way for more inclusive and impactful investment strategies! 💼✨ #ImpactInvesting #DueDiligence #SocialImpact #FinancialInclusion Impact Valuation Hub, Samuel, Noelia napoleon

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📌"Health & Safety investments can generate returns of 200–400%." (European Agency for Safety and Health at Work) At the People Sustainability Global Summit 2024, Valuing Impact participated in the panel "Accounting What Matters," moderated by Natalie Nicholles, alongside Adele Tharani, Madeleine Evans, and Tom McKenna. 💡We shared key insights from Nike's case study on applying the #ImpactValuation Framework to a Health & Safety program.: ✴️ NIKE generates $6.7 million in reputational value, highlighting its societal and business impact. ✴️ Evolving EHS KPIs could better capture broader value for society and business.  Capturing this value to society and business will open new opportunities to partner with stakeholders to further improve business value and provide valuable insight for organizational strategy. ✴️ #Impactvaluation enhances visibility into EHS contributions, revealing value and scale beyond traditional KPIs. Read more here: https://lnkd.in/dE4__iqV Thanks to the organizers! American Industrial Hygiene Association (AIHA), Capitals Coalition, @Global Solutions Inc, IIRSM, @Institute of Advanced Risk Management, L'Oréal, NEBOSH, Pinsent Masons, and Protex AI.

It was an honor to be part of the Building Bridges event in Geneva, Switzerland! Our live-streamed session, "A Solution-Oriented Approach: Impact Accounting within International Regulations," at the Geneva International Conference Centre featured pioneers of impact valuation and leaders from sustainable finance. The event concluded with audience engagement and valuable insights into the future of valuing impacts in the financial market. Many thanks to the speakers for the insightful conversation: - Sonja Haut, Novartis - Pavan Sukhdev, GIST Impact - Noelia (She/Her) Pacharotti, Valuing Impact - Dr. Dimitrij Euler, Value Balancing Alliance - Rui Oliveira, BFA - Banco de Fomento Angola - Chris Turpin, Greenings - Rachel Whittaker, Robeco - Dennis West, University of Oxford If you missed the live stream, watch the recording here: https://lnkd.in/gvEy_Wxt #ValueBalancingAlliance #BuildingBridges2024 #ImpactValuation #ImpactAccounting #DoubleMateriality #CSRD

🇨🇭We're at Building Bridges 2024 in Geneva this week!🇨🇭 Our Founder and CEO, Pavan Sukhdev, presented alongside pioneers of impact valuation and leaders from sustainable finance in a live-streamed panel titled 'A Solution-Oriented Approach: Impact Accounting within International Regulations'. The esteemed line-up included: - Sonja Haut, Novartis - Noelia (She/Her) Pacharotti, Valuing Impact - Dr. Dimitrij Euler, Value Balancing Alliance - Rui Oliveira, BFA - Banco de Fomento Angola - Margarita Pirovska, UN Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI) - Rachel Whittaker, Robeco Thank you to the Value Balancing Alliance for bringing this group together, and to Dennis West for your expert moderation. 👉 Watch the panel recording here: https://lnkd.in/gvEy_Wxt #ImpactValuation #SustainableFinance #BuildingBridges

Last Friday, we launched our Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene (WASH) Impact Valuation Framework with a webinar. Our discussion emphasized the importance of a holistic approach to evaluating WASH initiatives, considering factors beyond just output. As our experts noted, the WASH Impact Valuation Framework (WIVF) addresses a gap in existing evaluation methods for these initiatives, offering insights that were previously unavailable. Reflecting on our conversation, we’ve identified some key insights worth sharing again this week as a reminder of the valuable discussion we had with our experts: ▶️ “We saw the comparison from different programs in different countries, and that was interesting for us to see because some of the programs that we evaluated with this framework are essentially the same program across different countries, but the results were very different, and that is really what this framework was able to highlight. Of course, once you understand that, you can go to the impact pathway level to understand why it is different. The impact in a lower-developed country will always be more valuable than in a European country.” Philipp @ Reckitt ▶️ “For us, this piece is for that missing middle ground, where it allows us to make the case to companies to demonstrate the value of investing beyond the factory, so for us that’s a really critical component” Thérèse Rudebeck @ WaterAid ▶️ “The conversation today has completely changed. It is really tied to the business case, the resiliency of companies, and the impact of companies as related to WASH. The entry points for how companies enter the equation will be different. It might be the risk driver, it might be the opportunities driver, or reputational aspects around it. The valuation impact provides another aspect for those companies interested in understanding how their WASH investments manage both their own internal risk and also contribute toward societal benefits. This creates another entry point into those needs and identified areas and issues.” Mai-Lan @ WaterAid ▶️ “If you tell a shareholder or stakeholder that you delivered a certain volume, it´s very difficult to understand the value that has been provided to a community landscape or the business...because the same volume of water means very different things in different places. That is where this work really comes in.” Paul @ Bluerisk ▶️ “I think that the Impact Valuation Framework really does a great job of showing that crosswalk with the WASH benefits accounting framework. That really allows companies who are looking to go the next mile in terms of social, societal, and business valuation of their WASH projects.” Cheryl @ WASH4work Find out more about WIVF by downloading the full report: https://lnkd.in/d-TQycGt Valuing Impact Samuel Noelia #ImpactValuation #ImpactThinking #WASH #Water #Sanitation #Hygiene #WIVF

Last Friday, we launched our Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene (WASH) Impact Valuation Framework with a webinar. Our discussion emphasized the importance of a holistic approach to evaluating WASH initiatives, considering factors beyond just output. As our experts noted, the WASH Impact Valuation Framework (WIVF) addresses a gap in existing evaluation methods for these initiatives, offering insights that were previously unavailable. Reflecting on our conversation, we’ve identified some key insights worth sharing again this week as a reminder of the valuable discussion we had with our experts: ▶️ “We saw the comparison from different programs in different countries, and that was interesting for us to see because some of the programs that we evaluated with this framework are essentially the same program across different countries, but the results were very different, and that is really what this framework was able to highlight. Of course, once you understand that, you can go to the impact pathway level to understand why it is different. The impact in a lower-developed country will always be more valuable than in a European country.” Philipp @ Reckitt ▶️ “For us, this piece is for that missing middle ground, where it allows us to make the case to companies to demonstrate the value of investing beyond the factory, so for us that’s a really critical component” Thérèse Rudebeck @ WaterAid ▶️ “The conversation today has completely changed. It is really tied to the business case, the resiliency of companies, and the impact of companies as related to WASH. The entry points for how companies enter the equation will be different. It might be the risk driver, it might be the opportunities driver, or reputational aspects around it. The valuation impact provides another aspect for those companies interested in understanding how their WASH investments manage both their own internal risk and also contribute toward societal benefits. This creates another entry point into those needs and identified areas and issues.” Mai-Lan @ WaterAid ▶️ “If you tell a shareholder or stakeholder that you delivered a certain volume, it´s very difficult to understand the value that has been provided to a community landscape or the business...because the same volume of water means very different things in different places. That is where this work really comes in.” Paul @ Bluerisk ▶️ “I think that the Impact Valuation Framework really does a great job of showing that crosswalk with the WASH benefits accounting framework. That really allows companies who are looking to go the next mile in terms of social, societal, and business valuation of their WASH projects.” Cheryl @ WASH4work Find out more about WIVF by downloading the full report: https://lnkd.in/d-TQycGt Valuing Impact Samuel Noelia #ImpactValuation #ImpactThinking #WASH #Water #Sanitation #Hygiene #WIVF

Open source ▶️ 5,900 valuation factors for natural capital accounting! Valuing Impact released a significant update to its natural capital valuation factors, which are already in the public domain as part of the eQALY method publication. This new version of the valuation factors covers 5,916 data points across 204 countries and regions and 18 impact drivers aligned with the Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) method ReCiPe. Plastic in the oceans was added as an additional indicator that was not traditionally addressed in LCA methods. Some of the impact indicators are further split for different contexts: ▶️ Air pollution – Particulate matter emissions split for rural and urban locations ▶️ Freshwater and marine eutrophication split for direct and diffused emissions ▶️ Land use split per occupation type of pasture/meadow, arable and permanent cropland The factors are published as part of an impact valuation tool template, which is at the basis of most of the projects we do at Valuing impact, encompassing various datasets to facilitate the speed of developing those impact valuations for an organization. The datasets include the Health Utility of Income and Taxes (to value employment and wages, for instance), the Global Living Wage Dataset published by Valuing Impact, the wages database per skill level, and so on. We need to share knowledge and data so that any organization can get started on the topic and internalize the learning. Let's actively share knowledge and data, empowering every organization to dive into the topic and truly embrace the learning! The dataset and the eQALY methodology report are available here: https://lnkd.in/dd2_n47d. Please feel free to contact us to learn more or if you have any questions.

🚿Our working paper, WASH Impact Valuation Framework, is now live. The WASH Impact Valuation Framework (WIFV) presents a new, open-access methodology to measure the societal and business value of WASH access initiatives, as well as their social return on investments (SROI). The WIFV has been applied in 30+ countries worldwide and countless projects across various WASH activities. The key insights from the case studies results presented in the report tell us that: ▶️ # beneficiaries and m³ of water are not well correlated with societal value creation. We have to change our standard KPIs metrics to measure project impact. ▶️ The efficiency of WASH investment can vary tremendously. The Social Return On Investment (SROI) calculated over a portfolio ranges from 1:0 to 1:26. Many projects might be worth the investments! ▶️ The impact profile of WASH investments varies greatly, including negative and positive impacts covering GHG emissions, increased costs, improved health, education benefits, etc. ▶️ Ultimately, measuring and valuing the impact of WASH investment can lead to much better and more efficient investment decisions that will scale up our societal impact, so let’s do it! Fundamentally, the WIVF is a tool to be celebrated because it will ultimately inform better investment decisions to improve water access for many communities worldwide. Find out more about WIVF by downloading the full report: https://lnkd.in/eyQyMfBn Check out our blog for a summary of the report: https://lnkd.in/dsqMaBcS Bluerisk, Reckitt, WaterAid, WASH4work, Philipp Küst, Mai-Lan Ha, Thérèse Rudebeck, Paul Reig, Cheryl Hicks, Samuel Vionnet Noelia Pacharotti #ImpactValuation #ImpactThinking #WASH #Water #Sanitation #Hygiene #WIVF