Impact Value Added (IVA)

Abstract

Impact Investing is a trending topic. The market experiences increasing standardization from defining or measuring to managing impact. More and more impact investing institutions professionalize. Now, it is possible to start thinking beyond institutional improvement to more systemic, market-wide analysis. By separating the impact investing market by their impact target indicators, it is possible to use performance metrics such as the Impact Value Added (IVA). This short paper shows first the I) IVA’s prerequisites, then introduces the II) IVA concept to discuss finally the implementation of an IVA.