Investment made with the intention to generate positive, measurable social or environmental impact alongside a financial return.
Impact investing directs capital to projects and organisations that create positive change in society or the environment, with an explicit commitment to measure and report that change, and a financial return ranging from capital preservation to market rate depending on the opportunity.
Impact is the ultimate change in beneficiaries' lives, measured by indicators that have a definition, unit, baseline, target, data source and measurement frequency.
Defining impact
A clear, stated intent to create positive impact, not incidental impact.
Investment design grounded in evidence about the problem and the solution.
Tracking indicators and managing social performance as rigorously as financials.
Sharing lessons and practices to grow impact investing.
The platform's methodology aligns with widely used global impact-investing practices, adapted to the Saudi context.
Definitions and characteristics of impact investing and the IRIS+ indicator system.
Five dimensions of impact: what, who, how much, contribution, risk.
Linking every opportunity to one or more of the 17 goals.
Operating principles for managing impact through the investment cycle.
