Can you measure the social return on community-driven change?
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Summary
Community-driven change can be difficult to measure. Organisations working closely with communities often work towards change and impact in areas such as agency, confidence, collective problem-solving, and social norms. These changes can take years to emerge and are not always captured by conventional monitoring and evaluation metrics. Social Return on Investment (SROI) offers one way of making these outcomes more visible. It helps assign an economic value to social outcomes. It also enables org