Social Investment and Finance:

Developing opportunities
Key Note Speech for Journeys to Impact,
Riga, November 2014
Jim Clifford OBE
Head of Impact and Advisory , Bates Wells Braithwaite
Co-founder and Chair, Its All About Me the Adoption
Bond
Co-chair, GECES sub-group on standards for Social
Impact Measurement
Member of UK Advisory Board, and of Social Impact
Measurement Working Group for the G8 Social Impact
Investment Taskforce

Jim Clifford OBE

Tel: +44 (0)7860 386081
www.bwbadvisory.com
www.bwbimpact.com
j.clifford@bwbllp.com
@bwbadvisory; @bwbimpact @Clifford_Jim

Definitions: what are we talking about ..?

.and can you measure it .?

September 2014

What do we mean by social

Definitions from the GECES report
http://ec.europa.eu/internal_market/social_business/docs/expertgroup/20131128-impact-measurement-subgroup_en.pdf

Social

Social Outcome

Social Impact

Relating to individuals and communities, and the

interaction between them; contrasted with economic and
environmental.
Social effect (change), both long-term and short-term
achieved for the target population as a result of the activity
undertaken with a view to social change taking into account
both positive and negative changes.

The reflection of social outcomes as measurements, both

long-term and short-term, adjusted for the effects achieved
by others (alternative attribution), for effects that would have
happened
anyway
(deadweight),
for
negative
consequences (displacement), and for effects declining over
time (drop-off).

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What is social impact.......?

Views from Maas and Liket Do we know what we are talking about at ARNOVA 2011

Four key elements :

Value created as a consequence of someones activity

(Emerson,

Wachowicz & Chun, 2000)

Value created is that experienced by beneficiaries and all others

affected (Kolodinsky, Stewart, & Bullard, 2006)
Impact is the sum of both positive and negative effects (Wainwright, 2002)

It must be judged against a benchmark of what would have been the

status without the activity (Clark, Rosenzweig, Long, & Olsen, 2004)
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Categorising Financial Measures of Social Impact

Full Social
Impact
Limited view
social impact
Local area
economic (LM3type)
Wider
cashable
savings

THINK
Timescale and
measure
Viewpoint
Purview

Narrow
cashable
savings

Clifford 2013
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Where do outcomes fit ?...

Inputs

Activities

Outputs

Primary

Outcomes

Impacts

Secondary

Social Impact measurement

in context
They measure

Why we want to know

How we measure it

So we can.......

Financial Accounts
Economic transactions: the
cash flows, assets and
liabilities
Manage our finances
Cash flow forecasts; I&E
accounts, balance sheets;
financial or proxy KPIs
Manage resources
Influence funders and partners
Assess our ability to fund our
work
Explain our finances

Social Impact
Social transactions: the
difference we make, to whom,
and how we make it
Manage the effectiveness of our
work
SROI
Social Accounting
Total cost accounting
Improve effective delivery
Focus resources where most
needed
Influence funders and partners
Explain our work

Impact measurement:
How does it work ?
Impact =

Outcomes (deadweight + alternative attribution + displacement)

Deadweight
The outcome that would have happened anyway

Alternative attribution
The outcome that arose as a result of other interventions importance of recognising the work of others

Displacement
The disadvantage or reduction in positive outcome, or social cost arising as a consequence

5 steps for Social Impact Measurement from EVPA guide

and the GECES report

Standardisation ?
.is it possible.?

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The search for standardisation

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GECES Report as a key to uniting G7 thought

Common Positioning

Common Definitions

GECES

Impact
Materiality
Outcome
Output
Proportionality
Reliability
Stakeholder
Theory of Change

No one size fits all

measurement solution
Measure what is
needed for decisionmaking
Set the measurement
to suit the goals
Report the data fairly
and transparently,
stating assumptions
Some commonality of
frameworks and
indicators can be
achieved

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Four desires
1. Embrace Impact Accountability
as a common value
2. Apply best practice guidelines
3. Establish common language and
data infrastructure
4. Evolve strive continuously to
improve

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Impact Performance Measures..?

.how do they work.?

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Outcomes to performance indicators: finding

informed outputs

Inputs

Activities

Outputs

Outcomes

Impacts

Think:

Behaviours
needed

Good PIs are:

Reporting
and
behaviours

Desirable
outcome

Simple

Natural

Perverse
incentives

Certain

Improvement

Change

Arising from
the flow of
activity to
outcome

Determine
milestones

How it is
caused

Assess
timescales

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Social Impact Measurement in

Action
In planning and design
In engagement
In performance measurement
In payment and accountability

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Some background:
whats a social impact bond ?

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A contract for delivering services

Deliberately creating social outcomes
changes in the lives of individuals
or communities
Generally paid-for on the basis of
success in delivering those
outcomes, or
delivering other value
With its own embedded way of
financing its work up-front

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Its All About Me. IAAMin a nutshell

Of 7,000+ children a year who seek an adoptive family, 2,000+
dont find one. Many that do struggle.
A child in State care costs 1m to age 18, and more into adult
life.
IAAMs solution:
Creating a new, alternative, UK-wide, virtual market
In which

adoption works differently: children find parents

Local Authorities can choose if, when, and how
..on a child-by-child basis
adoption support pre-, during and post-placement is built in
Local Authorities pay by results, out of savings theyve
already made.

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Its All About Me SIB Structure

CVAA

Investors

The Consortium for

Voluntary Adoption
Agencies

1st Close 2M

IAAM - Funding &

Investors Relationship flows

2M
1st Close

Return of funds +
min 4% profit
share

IAAM Sharing
Ltd
(Profit Co.)

Local Authority:
Profit Share

SOF
1M

Pays 54,000 in four stages

Saves 50,000+ p.a.

Adoption
Register

Admin
IAAM Fund
Fee &
IAAM Service
SLAMInter-agency
(LLP)
Comparator:
Standard
fee
Co (Ltd)
IAAM
Fund
27,000
(LLP)
Outcome
based
payments

Network of
VAAs

Outcome
based
payments

LAs
The Local Authorities

Service Providers

SLAM
Psychiatric Assessment
Service Provider

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Its All About Me SIB Structure

CVAA

Investors
1st Close 2M

IAAM Fund:

Advances 46,500 in
same four stages
Recovers that from LA
payments.
Takes risk up to first 10%
of breakdowns
Funds IAAM Service Co
as the referree of the
scheme

Investors

2M
1st Close

The Consortium for

Voluntary Adoption
Agencies

IAAM Funding &

Relationship
IAAM Sharing
Ltd
flows
Return of funds
+
(Profit Co.)
min 4% profit
share

Profit Share

SOF
1M

Adoption
Register

IAAM Fund
(LLP)
IAAM Fund
(LLP)

Admin
Fee &
SLAM

IAAM Service
Co (Ltd)

Outcome
based
payments

Provider VAA:

Takes excess risk over

10%

Network of
VAAs

Outcome
based
payments

LAs
The Local Authorities

Service Providers

SLAM
Psychiatric Assessment
Service Provider

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Its All About Me SIB Structure

IAAM Funding &

Relationship
flows

Investors

2M
1st Close

Investors:

Fund 2m
Get a return of 4% p.a.
plus a with profits
element from the surplus
Capital repaid at year 10

Cabinet Office

Top up funding for first

100 children

CVAA:
Gets the first 1m surplus
plus half the remaining
surplus
Recapitalises the scheme
at year 10
Saves 50,000+ p.a.

CVAA

Investors

The Consortium for

Voluntary Adoption
Agencies

1st Close 2M

Return of funds +
min 4% profit
share

IAAM Sharing
Ltd
(Profit Co.)

Profit Share

SOF
1M

Adoption
Register

IAAM Fund
(LLP)
IAAM Fund
(LLP)

Admin
Fee &
SLAM

IAAM Service
Co (Ltd)

Outcome
based
payments

Network of
VAAs

Outcome
based
payments

LAs
The Local Authorities

Service Providers

SLAM
Psychiatric Assessment
Service Provider

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Hows it doing.eleven months in?

Network is working and developing

First registrations after 6 weeks

Psych/medical reports delivered within 6

weeks

Engaged with 60+ of a target 75 (50%) local

authorities

60 children referred; 20 registered; 12 being

considered

1 placed in new homes

LAs decision-making changing

Wider VCS discussions about whats

possible

Interest from wider finance markets.and

individuals

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Can you see the impact were having ?

Lives

changed,

using

behaviours

re-

engineered
Children into new homes
Adoptive families stabilised and supported

Costs saved for State

Wider systemic learning

Understand it, deliver it, measure it

if you like
but above all VALUE IT
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