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title: Impact Measurement
description: This topic focuses on assessing the social and environmental outcomes of projects and organizations. Learners will understand how to design evaluation frameworks, collect qualitative and quantitative data, and use metrics to demonstrate and improve organizational efficacy.
category: personal-development
subcategory: social-impact
difficulty: beginner, intermediate, advanced
url: /subject/impact-measurement
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# Impact Measurement

This topic focuses on assessing the social and environmental outcomes of projects and organizations. Learners will understand how to design evaluation frameworks, collect qualitative and quantitative data, and use metrics to demonstrate and improve organizational efficacy.

## Available Resources

2 Books • 2 Websites

## Websites

### 1. Social Value International

The global standard-setting network for social value and impact management. Publishes the Principles of Social Value, SROI assurance standards, and practitioner guidance, so users can value the outcomes stakeholders care about and report them consistently.

**Difficulty:** Beginner | **Price:** Free

**Link:** https://www.socialvalueint.org/

**Tags:** sroi, social-value, impact-management, measurement-standards, stakeholder-engagement

### 2. impactmanagementproject.com

A global collaboration offering a practical framework and resources to measure and manage social and environmental impact. It provides the IMP framework (five dimensions of impact), guidance, case studies, and tools to help organizations plan, measure, and compare impact across sectors.

**Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Free

**Link:** https://impactfrontiers.org/norms/

**Tags:** websites, social-services, social-impact

## Books

### 1. Impact Evaluation in Practice

**Author:** Paul J. Gertler, Sebastian Martinez, Patrick Premand, Laura B. Rawlings, Christel M. J. Vermeersch

A World Bank textbook covering randomized assignment, regression discontinuity, difference-in-differences, matching and instrumental variables. Readers finish able to choose a credible counterfactual for a given program, size a sample, and read evaluation results critically.

**Difficulty:** Beginner | **Price:** Free

**Link:** https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/handle/10986/25030

**Tags:** impact-evaluation, randomized-controlled-trials, quasi-experimental-methods, development-economics, program-evaluation

### 2. Measuring Social Change

**Author:** Alnoor Ebrahim

Ebrahim argues that measurement should match the kind of social problem an organization tackles, offering a contingency framework across four operating models. Readers learn when tracking outputs suffices and when chasing causal attribution is worth the cost.

**Difficulty:** Beginner | **Price:** Paid

**Link:** https://www.amazon.com/dp/1503601404?tag=edmonddante07-20

**Tags:** social-impact, nonprofit-management, performance-measurement, accountability, theory-of-change

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