Assessment Resource
| ID | INDIGO-ARES-0078 |
|---|---|
| Assessment Resource - Status | PUBLIC |
| Assessment Resource - Name | Social footprint |
| Assessment Resource - Who? - Public Sector | NO |
| Assessment Resource - Who? - Private Sector | NO |
| Assessment Resource - Who? - Third Sector | YES |
| Assessment Resource - Output Format - Agnostic | NO |
| Assessment Resource - Output Format - Monetary Valuation | NO |
| Assessment Resource - Output Format - Non-monetary quant index | YES |
| Assessment Resource - Output Format - Ordinal | NO |
| Assessment Resource - Output Format - Qualitative only | NO |
| Assessment Resource - Output Format - Quant but no index | YES |
| Assessment Resource - Time frame? - Ongoing | YES |
| Assessment Resource - Time frame? - Prospective | NO |
| Assessment Resource - Time frame? - Retrospective | NO |
| Assessment Resource - Scale? - Agnostic | NO |
| Assessment Resource - Scale? - Micro | YES |
| Assessment Resource - Scale? - Meso | NO |
| Assessment Resource - Scale? - Macro | NO |
| Assessment Resource - Impact Goal - Agnostic | NO |
| Assessment Resource - Impact Goal - Defence | NO |
| Assessment Resource - Impact Goal - Democracy | NO |
| Assessment Resource - Impact Goal - Development/ Poverty Reduction | NO |
| Assessment Resource - Impact Goal - Education | NO |
| Assessment Resource - Impact Goal - Employment/ Financial well-being | NO |
| Assessment Resource - Impact Goal - Health | NO |
| Assessment Resource - Impact Goal - Housing | NO |
| Assessment Resource - Impact Goal - Local rejuvenation | NO |
| Assessment Resource - Impact Goal - SDG oriented | YES |
| Assessment Resource - Impact Goal - Social impact | YES |
| Assessment Resource - Impact Goal - Sustainability/ Eco | NO |
| Assessment Resource - Impact Goal - Well-being | NO |
| Assessment Resource - Type - Case Study | NO |
| Assessment Resource - Type - Classification | NO |
| Assessment Resource - Type - Consultancy | NO |
| Assessment Resource - Type - Framework | YES |
| Assessment Resource - Type - Guide | NO |
| Assessment Resource - Type - Dataset | NO |
| Assessment Resource - Type - Principles | NO |
| Assessment Resource - Type - Reporting Standards | NO |
| Assessment Resource - Type - Resource Repository or Summary | NO |
| Assessment Resource - Type - Tool | NO |
| Assessment Resource - Type - Training Programme | NO |
| Assessment Resource - Sourcing? - Agnostic | NO |
| Assessment Resource - Sourcing? - Outsource to Vendor | NO |
| Assessment Resource - Sourcing? - Paid tool | NO |
| Assessment Resource - Sourcing? - Proprietary in-house | NO |
| Assessment Resource - Sourcing? - Self-driven | YES |
| Assessment Resource - Method? - Attribution | YES |
| Assessment Resource - Method? - Diff-in-Diff statistical analysis | YES |
| Assessment Resource - Method? - Ex-ante projections | NO |
| Assessment Resource - Method? - Focus Groups | NO |
| Assessment Resource - Method? - Framework agnostic | NO |
| Assessment Resource - Method? - Interviews | NO |
| Assessment Resource - Method? - Mission Alignment | NO |
| Assessment Resource - Method? - Observation | YES |
| Assessment Resource - Method? - Operational Data | YES |
| Assessment Resource - Method? - RCTs | NO |
| Assessment Resource - Method? - Surveys | NO |
| Assessment Resource - Method? - Theory of Change | NO |
| Assessment Resource - Method? - Before and After | NO |
| Assessment Resource - Used in sectors? - Charity | NO |
| Assessment Resource - Used in sectors? - CSR | NO |
| Assessment Resource - Used in sectors? - Development | NO |
| Assessment Resource - Used in sectors? - Governance/ Policy | NO |
| Assessment Resource - Used in sectors? - Green Book | NO |
| Assessment Resource - Used in sectors? - Healthcare | NO |
| Assessment Resource - Used in sectors? - Housing | NO |
| Assessment Resource - Used in sectors? - IGOs | NO |
| Assessment Resource - Used in sectors? - Impact investing | YES |
| Assessment Resource - Used in sectors? - Microfinance | NO |
| Assessment Resource - Used in sectors? - SIBs | NO |
| Assessment Resource - Used in sectors? - Social Enterprises | YES |
| Assessment Resource - Used in sectors? - Sustainability/ Eco | YES |
| Assessment Resource - Used in sectors? - Developed Countries | NO |
| Assessment Resource - Used in sectors? - Developing Countries | NO |
| Assessment Resource - Internal / External? - Internal | YES |
| Assessment Resource - Internal / External? - External | NO |
| Assessment Resource - Leader | Center for sustainable organizations |
| Assessment Resource - Purpose | The Social Footprint Method (SFM) is a context-based approach to measuring, managing and reporting the social sustainability performance of an organization. In this regard, the Social Footprint is simply a narrow application of Context-Based Sustainability, which in its broader form covers sustainability performance in all of its dimensions: social, economic and environmental. |
| Assessment Resource - Content | It measures the gap between resources people need and resources organizations decide to produce. Whereas sustainability in the case of ecological impacts is all about living within our means, sustainability in the case of our social (and economic) impacts is about creating and maintaining the means to live. What mainly differentiates the SFM from other sustainability accounting tools is the manner in which it measures and reports performance relative to organization-specific standards of performance (i.e., for impacts on anthro capitals). Such standards are set by reference to what an organization’s duties and obligations are to its stakeholders (by group) to have (or not have) impacts on anthro capitals in ways that can affect their well-being. No other sustainability method does this! |
| Assessment Resource - Link | https://www.sustainableorganizations.org/social-footprint-method/ |