Who Should Take This Program?
The Certificate in Professional Impact Analysis is for leaders and managers involved in identifying, designing, financing, implementing, monitoring, or evaluating social interventions, public policies, or international development projects, including:
Leaders
Promote the use of evidence in future strategies and ensure that your team applies the correct, industry-standard impact measurement techniques. Improve your ability to maximize your organization’s impact and improve accountability to stakeholders. The program also provides a thorough introduction to the use of impact bonds and other performance-based financing opportunities.
Policy specialists and social sector leaders
Learn about the leading tools and techniques for identifying, designing, financing, evaluating, and managing the performance of policies and programs that make meaningful and sustainable impact on society. Integrate evidence-based decision making into your department or organization, and improve its efficiency.
Advocates who drive change
Explore how your arguments can go further when supported by evidence-based analytics. Learn how to measure impact, compare alternatives, and communicate effectively to better inform decisions and drive change.
Investment professionals
Learn about measurement and reporting methods and tools for the analysis social and environmental impacts with the same credibility applied to financial reporting. Explore how to identify and structure financing arrangements that ensure the social and institutional or organizational sustainability of projects and policies. Assess the quality of evidence regarding impact.
Social impact investors
Acquire the skills needed to properly assess, track, and report on the impact of your capital when the primary focus is on financing impact. Gain the skills required to choose the right impact measurement and management frameworks and stand ahead of the competition.
Accountants
Learn how to include impact assessment as part of your practice. Explore the techniques to integrate financial and impact analysis to track and report performance in an entirely new way. Learn about standardized impact and impact analysis statements.
Communication leaders
Learn how (and how not) to report impact. Obtain the skills for translating complex impact analysis assumptions, methods, and results into easily digestible information for your audience.
Technical or subject matter experts in any area related to ESG and sustainability
Learn how careful analysis can improve the design and implementation of existing and new operations, strategies, policies, and projects. The course will highlight how impact analysis at the various stages of a decision’s lifecycle are tied together and inform one another, as well as how to identify appropriate analytical approaches such as CBA, RCTs, and various quasi-experimental techniques to utilize existing and generate new evidence.
“With the growing focus on sustainability, ESG investments, EDII and ethical cap ex initiatives, there is a risk that companies get caught up in (or duped by) green-washing and lip-service efforts in the space of social impact. We need empirical rigour and discipline to measure doing good in the community and among stakeholders, as well as accounting measures that gauge business and profit success.”
CEO
Material Insights (materialinsights.ca)