Impact Investment and ESG
We help foundations, corporates with CSR programmes, charities, social enterprises and impact investors to not just capture data but also design, implement and refine an impact assessment process tailored to the stakeholders’ needs.
Advisor to Impact Investors
- Develop ESG strategy, E&S management systems (ESMS), and governance capabilities
- Conduct portfolio-level analyses to decide on investment strategies to align and accelerate investment pipeline
- Provide KPI measurement framework
- Contribute to robust ESG due diligence and enable measurement verification and reporting
- Build capacity of staff members
Our regulated service on investment advisory in the UK covers non-retail clients and investors only
Consultant to Investee Firms or Corporates and Social Enterprises:
- Develop and/or support them in implementing the E&S Management Systems and reporting
- Facilitate linkages with investors
- Develop their Theory of Change/Impact Framework
- Build ESG capacity of staff members
- Align CSR investments to SDG Goals
Advocate to and for Beneficiaries:
- Directly engage with diverse groups of product or service end-users and beneficiaries to understand their E&S needs and identify emerging investment opportunities
- Collect user voices and advocate for them in investors forums and publications
- Promote civil society’s interests and influence impact investors and ESMS ecosystem
Highlights of our work
Investment Climate Reform (ICR) facility: We supported ICR Facility to convene Webinars and author policy papers, which are available in English and French, focused on impact investing in Africa, Pacific and Caribbean countries. Links here:
Investing in adolescent girls and young women: We were commissioned by SPRING Accelerator, a programme funded by FCDO, USAID and Australia Aid, to create an interactive toolkit:
Equality Impact Investing Project (EIIP): We supported EIIP to launch their inaugural training programme for over 80 impact investors and author their digital toolkit:
Our Managing Director co-authored “The nexus between climate finance and gender-smart investing” with the Chair of 2X Challenge, an initiative of Development Finance Institutions (DFI) to mobilise capital. The article was included in a compendium published by the ODI, titled ‘The catalytic effects of DFI investment: gender equality, climate action, and the harmonisation of impact standards: an essay series’.
This report is based on in-depth conversations with a range of stakeholders— funders, asset managers, intermediaries, and social purpose organisations — unearthing their approaches, best practices and challenges in hearing and integrating end-community voices in the design, deployment, and measurement of their work.