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.
Buen Vivir Fund - Linking Participation and Economic Advancement
The Buen Vivir Fund seeks to promote financial models and practices that support communities’ holistic wellbeing, as opposed to focusing solely on maximizing individuals’ capital accumulation.
Social Investment Business - methodology
Social Investment Business’ data-led decision-making process has led to greater objectivity.
Village Capital - Flipping the Power Dynamics: Can entrepreneurs make successful investment decisions?
Peer-Selected Investment is a collaborative due-diligence model that takes a bottom-up approach to investing in early-stage startups.
Equality and Human Rights Commission - Human rights due diligence: questions for boards to ask of their executive teams
Board members may find these questions useful to guide discussions with senior management about the company’s salient human rights issues.
The Social Investment Consultancy - USERS: Putting Users’ Voices at the Heart of Evaluation
USERS methodology by The Social Investment Consultancy on inclusive monitoring, evaluation and learning.
National Lottery Community Fund - Learnings from National Lottery Community Fund on people with lived experience by sectors
Learnings from National Lottery Community Fund on people with lived experience by sectors.
LSE Case & Oxfam - Data resources for multidimensional inequality
List of data resources that can be looked at in addition to any national or regional sources on inequality.
Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport (UKJ) - Equality data (UK)
This series brings together all documents relating to Equality data in the UK.
European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights - Compendium of practices for equality data collection
The Compendium of Practices on Equality Data covers practices on different discrimination grounds and areas of life in which discrimination, inequality and exclusion can occur.
LSE Case & Oxfam - Multi-dimensional Inequality Framework
Developed by Oxfam and LSE’s Centre for the Analysis of Social Exclusion, this framework can be used to understand the drivers of inequality and root causes across seven key aspects of life, referencing goals such as the SDGs.
Equality and Human Rights Commission - Equality and Human Rights Measurement Framework
Used by the UK’s Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC; the UK’s statutory equality and human rights body) as a basis for monitoring and reporting on the UK’s adherence to, and progress on, domestic and international equality and international human rights legal standards.
Transform Finance - Grassroots Community Engaged Investment
What would investment in communities look like if those very communities were part of the process?
Resource Generation - Transformative Investment Principles
We ask, specifically as young people with access to wealth, how can we mobilize resources as effectively as possible in service to movements?
University of Colorado Media Enterprise Design Lab - Exit to Community: A Community Primer
Exit to Community (E2C) is an effort to develop alternatives to the standard model of the startup "exit."
The Democracy Collaborative, Open Society Foundations, Soros Fund Management - Guidelines for Equitable Employee Ownership Transitions
How investors, founders, and employees can share in the value created by broadly held enterprise ownership.
Enclude/Palladium Group - Systems Change: An Emerging Practice in Impact Investing
Impact investors are increasingly engaging in 'systems practice' to better understand the underlying causes to social and environmental problems and to identify high leverage solutions to advance positive systems change.
Pre-distribution Initiative - ESG 2.0: Measuring & Managing Investor Risks Beyond the Enterprise-level
Multi-stakeholder effort includes an invitation and a call to action for institutional investors to address the systemic and systematic risks in how they approach asset class allocation and the misaligned incentives of investment structures.
Bridgespan - Back to the Frontier: Investing that Puts Impact First
Impact investing has boomed over the past decade, driven by the ethos that financial performance goes hand-in-hand with social and environmental impact.
Big Society Capital - Diversity Practices in the Social Investment Sector
Examples of the equality, diversity and inclusion practices of fund managers in our portfolio and wider sector.
The Young Foundation - Nothing about us without us
The purpose of this report is to highlight the variety of social enterprises and inclusive businesses operating across Africa, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) countries, and to explore the barriers they face in accessing finance.