The contribution of impact management project for investors’ impact reporting

Abstract

While the impact investing market has grown rapidly in recent years, investors face the chal-lenge of managing, measuring, and reporting their impact. Investors have a wide range of tools and frameworks at their disposal without a standardized approach to impact reporting. The or-ganization Impact Management Project (IMP) has supported this process with consensus-build-ing. This thesis explores how the IMP can contribute to a potential standardization for impact reporting. Based on information obtained during interviews with IMP employees and impact investors, we propose guidelines and a framework for an impact reporting process for investors. The proposed framework contains five steps starting with a reporting committee. The study highlights the success factor of best-practice and the need for guidelines in impact reporting for investors.

Date of Award	26 Jan 2021
Original language	English
Awarding Institution	Universidade Católica Portuguesa
Supervisor	Filipe Santos (Supervisor)