Social Impact
Measurable outcomes for people and communities. Social Impact in SEAM builds the evidence behind your project’s wide-ranging effect on the people and communities it reaches.
Contextual Analysis
Understand your project's social impact before you build by identifying who it affects, mapping your value chain, and establishing a social baseline.
View on the SEAM Standard →Impacted Party Engagement
Build processes to collect, analyze, and respond to feedback from the people most affected by your project throughout development.
View on the SEAM Standard →Monitoring + Evaluation
Track whether your project's social impact is moving in the right direction using established indicators and regular assessment cycles.
View on the SEAM Standard →- IA IAa1.1Establish project understanding and governance frameworkIA01Driver
- IA IAa1.2Gain a good understanding of the communities likely to be affected by the project by preparing a Community ProfileIA01Driver
- IA IAa1.3Map the proposed project value chainIA01Driver
- IA IAa1.4Identify and scope the likely social and human rights impacts of the commercial real estate projectIA01Driver
- IA IAa1.5Determine the 'social area of influence' by identifying the likely impacted partiesIA01Driver
- IA IAa1.6Create a reliable, credible, equitable, and efficient impacted party engagement planIA01Driver
- IA IAa1.7Assemble relevant baseline data for key social issuesIA01Driver
- IA IAa2.1Fully inform community members about the project and likely impactsIA02Impact
- IA IAa2.2Collect feedback from impacted partiesIA02Driver
- IA IAa2.3Develop and implement ways of addressing impactsIA02Driver
- IA IAa2.4Establish a community grievance mechanism for direct reporting of complaints to the OwnerIA02Driver
- IA IAa2.5Draft and publish the Social Impact Management Plan (SIMP)IA02Driver
- IA IAa3.1Develop and implement ongoing social performance monitoring plan that addresses obligations from the SIMPIA03Impact
- IA IAa3.2Undertake evaluation and periodic review (audit)IA03Impact
Why it matters
Buildings shape lives. Impact proves it.
Without a structured way to measure what’s happening, social equity commitments are just that: commitments. Social Impact gives your project the process and the proof to show that your work is making a real difference for the people it reaches.
Ready to measure the impact that matters?
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