The Sasakawa Peace Foundation set up the Asia Women Impact Fund (AWIF) with a clear intention to make positive social impact, especially on women and girls in Asia, through our investment. But then, how can we communicate our intentions to others?
We can only communicate our intentions through our Theory of Change and measuring and managing our impact based on a set criteria. Having an impact measurement and management (IMM) framework in place will help us stay focused on our intention, and also increases the effectiveness, accountability and transparency of our fund. Thus, IMM is an integral part of AWIF from sourcing to investing to monitoring our investments. By highlighting that impact matters as well as IMM is essential to be an effective impact investor and avoid impact washing, in order to collectively pursue impact and stay true to our contribution.
We would like to share our commitment to measuring impact as well as the logic behind measuring impact in this report. By doing so, we hope that we can add one more lived example to the list of successful cases to support the abovementioned statement. We also hope that our journey to become a genuine investor who cares for impact can inspire others to be the same and to learn from our experience.
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