Social Impact Measurement for a Sustainable Future: The Power of Aesthetics and Practical Implications

Acknowledgements
Contents
Notes on Contributors
Acronyms
List of Figures
List of Tables
1: Introduction
	1.1	 Introduction: Social Impact and Social Value
	1.2	 The How, What, Why and Whom of Social Impact Measurement
	1.3	 Agency, Expertise and Partnerships
	1.4	 Politics and Public Good
	1.5	 Power, Accountability and Ethics
	1.6	 Conclusions
	References
Section I: The How, What, Why and Whom of Social Impact Measurement
	2: The Development of Social Impact Measurement
		2.1	 Introducing Social Impact Measurement
		2.2	 Defining Social Impact
		2.3	 Social Impact Measurement and the SDGs
		2.4	 Existing Frameworks and the Future of Social Impact Measurement
		2.5	 Summarising Social Impact Measurement
		References
	3: Placing People at the Centre of Social Impact Measurement: Current Approaches, Challenges, and Future Directions
		3.1	 Beneficiaries and Impact
		3.2	 Current Approaches in Social Impact Measurement and the Scope of Stakeholder Engagement
		3.3	 Towards People-Centred Social Impact Measurement: Legitimising Social Value
		3.4	 Power in Social Impact Measurement and the Power of Social Impact Measurement
			3.4.1	 Why Is Power Analysis in Social Impact Measurement Important?
			3.4.2	 What Can Be Done? Elements of the Framework to Analyse Power Relations
			3.4.3	 Important Questions to Ask
			3.4.4	 The Utility of the Framework
		3.5	 Participatory Methods
			3.5.1	 What Can Practically Be Done to Incorporate Participatory Methods into Social Impact Measurement?
		References
	4: Why and What to Measure? The Justification for Social Impact Measurement
		4.1	 The Sustainable Development Goals and Impact Measurement
		4.2	 Systems Context for the Goals
		4.3	 Making It All Possible: Vision, Mobilisation, Legitimisation
		4.4	 Delivering Against the SDGs: What Are We Seeing?
			4.4.1	 Fragmented Governance Models
			4.4.2	 Non-aligned Activities and Resources
			4.4.3	 Strategies for Change Tend Towards the Linear
			4.4.4	 Insufficient Focus on Communication and Engagement
		4.5	 Closing the Gap: How Can Social Impact Measurement Help?
		4.6	 Is Measurement Key?
		References
Section II: Agency, Expertise and Partnerships
	5: Impact and Gender: Agency and Capability in Empowering Women in Kenya
		5.1	 Gender Equality
		5.2	 SDG 5 and the Challenge of Achieving Gender Equality and Empower All Women and Girls
			5.2.1	 Challenges of Social Impact measurement on Gender Equality and Development
		5.3	 Social Innovation and the Capability Approach
			5.3.1	 Capabilities Approach and Social innovation in Kenya
		5.4	 The Capabilities Approach as a Means for Gender Inclusion
		References
	6: Competing Discourses of Impact Measurement: Insights from the Field of Impact Investment
		6.1	 Impact and Investors
		6.2	 Diverse Rationales of Impact Measurement
			6.2.1	 Impact Measurement, Accountability, and Legitimacy
			6.2.2	 Impact Measurement, Strategising and Decision-Making
			6.2.3	 Impact Measurement and Organisational Learning
			6.2.4	 Impact Measurement and Stakeholder Dialogue
		6.3	 Critical Discourse Analysis
			6.3.1	 Case Selection
			6.3.2	 Data Collection and Analysis
		6.4	 Discourses on Impact Measurement
			6.4.1	 Impact Measurement as Legitimacy
			6.4.2	 Impact Measurement as Decision-Making
			6.4.3	 Impact Measurement as Identity
			6.4.4	 Impact Measurement as Reflection
			6.4.5	 Impact Measurement as Learning
			6.4.6	 Impact Measurement as Dialogue
			6.4.7	 Impact Measurement as a Response to Grand Challenges
		6.5	 Impact Measurement as Performative and Multi-Disciplinary
		6.6	 Researching Impact Measurement
		References
	7: Putting Stakeholders at the Centre: Multi-Stakeholder Approaches to Social Impact Measurement
		7.1	 Economic, Social and Financial Accounting
		7.2	 Social Impact Measurement and the Control Over Output and Outcome/Impact
		7.3	 The Role of Stakeholders in Social Impact Measurement
		7.4	 Social Impact Measurement to Foster Sustainable Development
		7.5	 Sustainable Change at the Micro and Macro Levels
		References
Section III: Politics and Public Good
	8: The Politics of Social Impact Measurement in Indonesia
		8.1	 ‘Just’ Impact Measurement
		8.2	 The Politics of Social Impact Measurement
		8.3	 Social Impact in Indonesia
		8.4	 Government-Driven Social Impact Measurement Initiatives
		8.5	 Social Impact Measurement in the Private Sector and in the Third Sector
		8.6	 Social Impact in the Social Entrepreneurship and Impact Investment Sector
		8.7	 The Importance of Context in Social Impact Measurement
		8.8	 Contextualism and Localism
		References
	9: Social impact Measurement in Public Service Delivery in the Age of Austerity: The Case of Community Libraries in Vietnam
		9.1	 Impact Partnerships
		9.2	 Public Service Delivery and Social Impact Assessment
		9.3	 How Partnership Can Facilitate Social Impact Creation?
		9.4	 Does Partnership Benefit or Challenge Social Impact Measurement?
		9.5	 Multi-level Social impact measurement Approach
		9.6	 Transformational Impact in Public service Delivery
		References
	10: Classification of Social Impact Assessment Models in South Korea
		10.1	 Impact Measurement in South Korea
		10.2	 Social Impact Assessment
		10.3	 Social Impact Assessment in the Korean Context
		10.4	 Social Impact Assessment Model Classification Methods
		10.5	 Classification of Korean Social Impact Assessment Models
		10.6	 Common Characteristics of Korean Social Impact Measurement Models
		References
	11: Monetising Social Impact: A Critique of the ‘Financialisation’ of Social Value
		11.1	 What Is Value?
		11.2	 Fictitious Commodification
		11.3	 Social Impact Bonds
		11.4	 Social Return on Investment (SROI)
		11.5	 The Evolution of Homo Economicus?
		11.6	 Moving Beyond the Market?
		References
	12: Measuring Outcomes in Social Care
		12.1	 Social Care Outcomes: An Introduction
		12.2	 Economic Evaluation in Social Care
			12.2.1	 Adult Social Care Outcome Toolkit (ASCOT)
			12.2.2	 Broader Measures of Capability Well-Being: ICECAP
		12.3	 Social Return on Investment (SROI)
		12.4	 Comparison of Our Three (Economic) Approaches
		12.5	 Making Sense of Impact Measurement in Social Care
		12.6	 Empowerment in Social Care
		References
Section IV: Power, Accountability and Ethics
	13: Enhancing Impact Materiality: Lessons from Evidenced-Based Policy Making
		13.1	 Impact and Policy Evidence
		13.2	 Impact Measurement and Materiality
		13.3	 Impact Materiality: Validity of Data and Risk
		13.4	 Impact Materiality: End-User Voice
		13.5	 Evidence-Based Policy Making
		13.6	 Impact Materiality: Validity of Data
		13.7	 Impact Materiality: End-User Voice and Accountability
		13.8	 Accountable Impact Models for Evidence-Based Policy-Making
		References
	14: Mapping SDGs in Sub-Saharan Africa: Highlighting System Effects
		14.1	 Mapping SDGs in Sub-Saharan Africa: Highlighting System Effects
		14.2	 Wicked Problems and the SDGs
		14.3	 Systems Theory
		14.4	 Mapping the SDGs as a System
		14.5	 Mapping SDGs in Sub-Saharan Africa
		14.6	 Interacting Issues Related to Cooking
		14.7	 The Influence of Urbanisation
		14.8	 Food Supply, Hunger and the SDGs in Africa
		References
	15: Ethical Issues with Social Impact Measurement
		15.1	 Ethics in Social Impact Measurement
		15.2	 Ethics: The Fundamental Principles for Social Impact Measurement
		15.3	 Ethical Issues in Evaluation Research
		15.4	 Guidance for Evaluation Research
		15.5	 An Ethical Framework for Social Impact Measurement
		15.6	 Ethics and Impact
		References
	16: Impact in the Twenty-First Century: Utilising Measurement to Empower the Disadvantaged
		16.1	 Impact Must Empower
		16.2	 The How, What, Why and Whom…
		16.3	 Human Agency, Knowledge and Collaboration
		16.4	 The Politics of Value
		16.5	 Ethical Evidence as Power
		16.6	 Final Thoughts: Ensuring Inclusive Impact Measurement
		References
Index