
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 Enterprise UK - Reclaiming the Future: Reforming Social Investment for the Next Decade
The Commission on Social Investment was an independent group set up by Lord Victor Adebowale CBE to investigate the current state of the social investment market and how the market could better enable the growth of social enterprises.
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.
Oxfam - A Feminist Approach to the Multidimensional Inequality Framework
This guide has been designed thinking of any research or practitioners’ team interested in piloting the MIF with a feminist perspective, both when framing and implementing the research process but also when conducting the analysis itself.
Association for Women in Development (AWID) - Moving More Money to the Drivers of Change: How Bilateral and Multilateral Funders Can Resource Feminist Movements
This report contains key practice-based insights on how funding modalities can succeed in providing sustained and direct resources to feminist movements.
Criterion Institute - Disrupting Fields: Addressing Power Dynamics in the Fields of Climate Finance and Gender Lens Investing
The thesis of this paper is that the awareness of power dynamics will lead to a more intentional design of field building efforts within gender lens investing and climate finance.
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.
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.
SheEO - Values and Practices
The SheEO model brings together women from all different backgrounds + ages, called Activators who contribute to a Perpetual Fund that is loaned out at zero percent interest to women-led Ventures who are working on the World’s To-Do List, who are selected by the Activators.
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.
Due Diligence 2.0 Commitment - BIPOC
Nine considerations to help shift and allocate more capital to BIPOC (black and Indigenous people of colour) managers.
Criterion Institute -How to Upgrade your Due Diligence with a Gender Lens (3.0)
A framework based on Values, Relationships and Processes for gender lens due diligence.
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.
Diversity VC - tools and practices
Provides VCs with the tools and practices to open their networks and make funding available to underrepresented founders, as well as the resources needed to cultivate an environment where founders and colleagues from all backgrounds feel they belong in the industry and the ecosystem.
Equileap - gender equality benchmark data
Equileap provides gender equality benchmark data built on over 3,000 companies across 19 data points to support investors to build gender lens financial products, from fair pay and recruitment to supply chain management.
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.