FAQ: Demonstrating and Measuring Societal Impact
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The aim of this FAQ is to share experiences on working with indicators that measure change at society-level i.e. exploring the different levels of impact such as raising awareness, changing behaviors, transforming people and their organizations, etc.
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What constitutes "societal impact" ?
- Change of behavior
- Awareness raising
- Ownership
- Empowerment
- Capacity building
- Level of income (not monetary but could be quality of life such as education,health, etc)
- Sustainable structures
- Policy change
- Legal institutions
How to make an international project generate positive societal impact?
How do you measure societal impact?
- Projects should measure changes in societal impact based on human development indices (HDI), which exist in all countries as a baseline to measure such impacts.
- Communities targeted by projects should be measured separately from the general population, so as to highlight changes that have taken place, otherwise they will be obscred within the national statistics.
