Understanding Impact in Social Investments 5
How we’re doing this
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Sustainable Development Goals
We link each of our social investments to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) they are contributing to. Each social investment has a primary SDG, and up to two secondary SDGs. This helps us understand the impact being targeted and communicate this clearly to a wider audience. We are part of an ecosystem of other social investors, charities and social enterprises with whom we collaborate, share learning, and learn from. The SDGs act as a common language to help communicate our priorities and where we are funding. This aids sharing our learning in a broader context, and identifies partners and collaborators who are working towards the same goals.
The SDGs our investments contribute towards Figure 1 shows the eight SDGs that our strategy-aligned investments are working towards. Strategy-aligned investments refers to the 62% social investments (by value) that are contributing towards the three aims of our strategy. The remaining 38% were made under our previous strategy and do not align with our new approach.
2 Strategy-aligned investments refers to the 62% towards the three aims of our strategy. The
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social investments (by value) thatOur are contributing Home Introduction approach
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How we’re doing this
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Understanding the impact of our portfolio
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What we’ve done so far
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Looking ahead
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