Social investment decision making and impact valuation

Social investment decision making and impact valuation

Parallel Session - Well-being-informed decision-making broadens the scope of potential efficiency outcomes and productivity drivers and aims to broadly align financial and economic goals alongside wider social, environmental, and distributional objectives. This in part requires a focus on preventative action, early intervention, and upstream (social) investment that looks beyond short-term returns on investment and aims to reduce crisis spending and overall expenditure over a longer timeframe. It also necessitates more accurate ways of valuing and assessing the social, environmental, distributional, and financial impacts of investing in people’s well-being. This session gives an overview of a range of research and practice examples related to social investment decision making and impact valuation.