Social Impact Assessment for Non-governmental Organisations
Objectives
- To promote the idea of Social Impact Assessment (SIA)
- To verify and test a framework for conducting SIA in Hong Kong
- To develop a protocol and guidelines for implementing a SIA framework
Principal Investigator
- Dr Law Chi Kwong, Department of Social Work and Social Administration
Collaborator
- The Hong Kong Council of Social Service
Achievements
- Promoted the ideas of SIA across stakeholders
- Organised a regional dialogue and invited experts from Japan, Thailand, Singapore, and Taiwan to introduce the development of SIA in their countries/regions
- Incorporated SIA elements in a Social Innovation camp to introduce SIA to social engineers recruited from different sectors
- Refined a SIA framework to be used in Hong Kong
- Refined the SIA framework by conducting SIA on social service projects
- Constructed an indicator bank for measuring social impact
- Educated the NGO sector in using the SIA framework
- Organised 2 workshops to introduce different approaches/tools to conduct SIA. Invited representatives from the Social Return on Investment (SROI) Network and Group SOS to introduce their tools for SIA respectively
- Developed a protocol and guidelines for frontline practitioners to use the SIA framework
- Constructed a resource website to serve as a platform for SIA interface, including uploading the SIA framework for educational purposes
Impact
- Facilitated the NGO practitioners and stakeholders involved in social services to understand the concept of social impact assessment, and apply the SIA Framework
- Refined the framework through a number of applications to various social service programme
- Developed a protocol and guidelines codified as a training manual for interested parties to use this SIA framework
Event Highlights
Nov 28, 2012 Regional Dialogue on Experience of Social Impact Assessment
Feb 25, 2013 Accounting for Social Impact: Workshop on Social Return on Investment (SROI)
Mar 22, 2013 Follow up meeting on SROI workshop
ExCEL3 Coordinator: Mr Larry Kwan
PowerPoint Presentation 1
PowerPoint Presentation 2
PowerPoint Presentation 3
Project Website