The Equality Impact Investing (EII) Project
Investing for Good is taking part in the inaugural Leading Equality Impact Investing course this month. This is based on the Equality Impact Investing (EII) project, which aims to explore and advance ways to increase the positive equality impact of impact investing. Supported by Social Investment Business and Connect Fund, the report outlines the multidimensional and intersectional nature of inequality and makes recommendations on equality impact investing principles, strategies and practices to advance equality and human rights. The report brings together partners and collaborators from both impact investing and equality and human rights.
The report defines equality impacting investing, what it implies and involves, both in theory and in practice, and what conditions help it to flourish. It also assesses the extent that these conditions exist, and the equality approaches being used in UK social investment. In particular it assesses how social purpose organisations are realising benefits from adopting an equality focus. Finally the report makes recommendations on how conditions for a flourishing equality impact investing market could be advanced, and how the sector could be better engaged.