SIMI 社会的インパクト・マネジメント・イニシアチブ

Guiding Documents

GUIDING DOCUMENTS FOR SOCIAL IMPACT MANAGEMENT (SIM)

There are three guiding documents for SIM as recognized by SIMI:

Principles for Social impact Intention

The SIMI considers the social impact intention is a way of thinking that emphasizes the improvement of social impact generation through various initiatives that contribute to the resolution of social issues and the creation of social value. The SIMI has established the following principles that amplify the social impact intention.
Regardless of our differences in positions and roles in society, we collectively aim to create a better society by engaging in projects and activities with the following social impact intention.

  • 1. Work on project development and improvement with an emphasis on social impact

    Clarify the path, period, and resources for solving social issues and realizing the creation of social value with a long-term perspective, evaluate the social impact against the intended outcome, and run the PDCA cycle. Stakeholders that support businesses in various ways should proactively identify and support those that place a strong emphasis on social impact.

  • 2. Working together with various stakeholders

    Bring together nonprofits, corporations, funders, intermediary support organizations, citizens and government agencies to best utilize their respective strengths such as knowledge, experience and technology in order to solve social issues and create social value.

  • 3. Disseminate good business models

    Proactively disseminate and share knowledge gained from individual efforts to create a business model that can spread to diverse regions and sectors, and increase social impact by replicating those business models.

Social Impact Management Framework

This Framework outlines business management methods that increase social impact by adhering to the principles for social impact intention. Click here (URL: Japanese only).

Social Impact Management Guidelines

These Guidelines expand upon the Social Impact Management Framework and provide a concrete direction. Click here (URL: Japanese only).

The Practical Guide and tools

The Practical Guide illustrates the steps that businesses can take to advance social impact management. It provides guidance for the construction of logic models, the identification of outcomes to be measured, and the selection of measurement methods. In the Practical Guide, the 10 steps are described for working through the impact management cycle based on the “5 + 2 principles” of evaluation for social impact. Click here for the details of each step (URL: Japanese only). Logic models and specific cases by sector In Step 4: Verification of logic for strategy implementation of the Practical Guide, a few examples of logic models by sector are introduced. In the social impact management, it is recommended that the companies or nonprofits running the project and stakeholders, who are supporting or are benefiting from it, work together as much as possible by: •Sharing the understanding of the causal reasoning represented by the logic model through learning and discussion; •Implementing the project based on intended outcomes, and; •Evaluating the project success or failure by using the agreed upon indicators.

The following logic models by sector are available:

Click here (URL: Japanese only) for more information on the logic model of each field.

Outcome Indicator Database

In the Outcome Indicator Database, some commonly used indicators to measure outcomes are presented along with how to measure those indicators.

Click here (URL: Japanese only) for the Outcome Indicator Database.

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