A Case Study about Monitoring and Evaluating Social Impacts in Australia
Executive Summary: Monitoring and evaluation (M&E) allows people to learn from past experiences, improve service delivery, plan and allocate resources and demonstrate results as part of accountability to stakeholders. M&E also assists in keeping projects on track, providing a basis for reassessing priorities and creating an evidence base for current and future projects.There is a growing interest in the measurement of social impact across the business, government and nonprofit sectors. In recognising the role that non-profit organisations play in ‘enhancing the economic, social, cultural and environmental wellbeing of society’, the Australian Government has recently focused onimproving the measurements of social impact
The Productivity Commission’s proposed framework does not seek to describe the mechanisms by which inputs are converted to outputs, outputs to outcomes and outcomes to impacts. The Commission found that measurement techniques such as SAA and SROI are consistent with, and can report within, the proposed impact mapping framework. The Commission also stated that it does not have a preference for any technique because they all have their advantages and disadvantages. keep reading
