EII RESOURCES FROM THE FIELD
As a collaborative endeavour that seeks to build the field of equality impact investing, EIIP gathers resources that demonstrate or support social impact investing putting equality impact principles and strategies into practice. These resources are made available for the benefit of the entire community, to catalyse and advance knowledge and action for equality impact.
You are welcome to submit resources for the EIIP Knowledge Hub through this form. These can include resources developed through by your own organization or any other resources that you would like to see featured and made available to the EII community.
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Resources can be examples of funds, practices, processes, research or data. Formats can include web links, case studies, reports, research articles, policy documents, application forms, communications strategies or assessment criteria.
Social Tech Trust - Equality Transformative Tool
This interactive Equality Transformative Tool can be integrated into impact investors’ due diligence and portfolio management processes to identify ventures that remove barriers for the most marginalised and underserved people in society, supporting alignment with one of five EII strategies.
Criterion Institute - Introducing standards of practice for gender lens investing
Criterion's Standards of Practice aim to make the negative and usually hidden impacts of power, privilege and bias visible within investment practices, and provide concrete steps to address them.
Criterion Institute - Community-Centered Blended Finance: Towards a Transformative Approach
This report from Criterion Institute examines ways that blended finance is currently being deployed to address unequal dynamics of power and promote flourishing communities, and offer some new perspectives and alternative approaches to using this tool.
Institute for Fiscal Studies Deaton Review - Evidence Volume on UK inequalities
Led by Professor Sir Angus Deaton, Nobel Laureate, and the Institute for Fiscal Studies, the Deaton Review is the most ambitious study of its kind to examine a range of inequalities in the UK and the forces driving them.
UNDP - From Fragmentation to Integration: Embedding Social Issues in Sustainable Finance
This paper aims to generate momentum within the financial system to tackle inequality and improve a common understanding of the social impacts of a market-based economy.
Diversity Forum - Manifesto 2.0
Manifesto 2.0 is a bold new way to address equity, equality, diversity and inclusion in the social investment sector.
GenderSmart - Justice, equity, diversity and inclusion (JEDI) investing
The tools and resources on this site have been developed to help allocators and investment influencers incorporate a gender lens alongside racial and ethnic justice* across the investment process.
Equally Ours - Levelling Up: Firm foundations
This report presents an evidence base and a narrative for ‘levelling up’ from an equality and human rights perspective, with recommendations to improve opportunity and outcomes for everyone, where no-one is left behind.
Social Tech Trust - Listening to Founders: Designing approaches for investing in social tech
Shares insights from 23 Social Tech ventures exploring the current funding landscape for Social Impact initiatives and what can be done to help ventures scale their impact.
Big Society Capital - EDI Plan
BSC's EDI plan rests on three focus areas - People and Culture, Engagement and Market Building and Investment and Portfolio.
Social Economy Data Lab - Diversity DAshboard
The Diversity Dashboard reflects the data from seven funds and programmes over the last 2 years: totalling 5,189 applicants with 1,404 approved, and contains key organisational information on 4,737 unique social sector organisations.
Impact Investing Institute - Estimating and Describing the UK Impact Investing Market
As well as producing an estimate of UK market size for the first time, the report analyses the key attributes and actors within the market today, the levers and drivers that can support its growth and the trends that are likely to dominate it in the future.
Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI) - Diversity, Equity & Inclusion: Key Action Areas for Investors
This paper outlines how and why investors can contribute to equity for all and provides the case for integrating DEI into investment and ownership decisions.
Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI) - Why and How Investors Should Act on Human Rights
With regulation on human rights due diligence already implemented in some jurisdictions, more measures in the pipeline and policy making converging around the UNGPs and OECD standards, investors can future-proof their approach to ESG issues by implementing these frameworks now.
Thomson Reuters Foundation - Amplifying the ‘S’ in ESG: Investor Myth Buster
ESG investing is plagued by many challenges and misperceptions about why social issues – such as a company’s labour practices or community relations – matter and how or whether they can be integrated into investment analysis.
B Lab Global - SDG Insights Report
B Lab Global’s Insights team has created a report that leverages the thousands of users (and data points) of the SDG Action Manager to conduct a comprehensive analysis of where companies are prioritizing actions on the SDGs, how they are performing, and what they are looking to improve upon.
The Investment Integration Project (TIIP) - Systemic Stewardship: Investing to Address Income Inequality
To support investors in confronting and managing the systemic risk of income inequality, TIIP offers a six-step process for investors to tackle systemic issues, such as income inequality.
Big Issue Invest - Diversity, equality & inclusion measurement tool
The DEI Tool is designed to support organisations to measure their diversity characteristics internally and within the different groups that use their services.
DEI Data Group - DEI Data Standard
The DEI Data Group is an independent working group convened by Fozia Irfan and Josh Cockroft, and includes a range of foundations and funders from across the United Kingdom.
Engineers Without Borders Canada - A Transformative Evaluation Toolkit for the Impact Investing Sector
This toolkit is designed to help entrepreneurs, investors, consultants, evaluators or other practitioners deepen their social impact measurement and management process in the impact investing sector.