Impact-Driven & Action-Based Research¶
About IMPACT-R¶
Understanding the needs of the population, beyond national statistics or studies focusing on population samples, is crucial to achieving sustainable development without leaving anyone behind. Despite the growing awareness of sustainable development topics, the monitoring of progress at the household level remains a major challenge for the research, public, and private (investors, NGOs, financial institutions, and small and medium enterprises) sectors.
The goal of the project IMPACT-R is to establish collaborative frameworks for researchers, impact makers, and sustainable entrepreneurs sharing a common motivation: develop concrete actions and recommendations, driven by achieving a concrete impact on the vulnerable population, and based on data.
Water-Energy-Food Nexus¶
The research will focus on the nexus between access to energy, access to clean water and sanitation, and food security, at the level of both households and microenterprises (productive uses). One of the main objectives of the research will be to propose - and field test - assessment methodologies for measuring the impact of modern credit mechanisms for financing clean energy technologies (green loans) and clean water solutions (water credits). To this end, the relationships between existing frameworks for the assessment of energy access (at the household level and for productive use) and access to WASH (at the household and community levels) will be investigated.
Action-Based Research¶
Exploiting available data sources and innovative data acquisition technologies and fostering close interaction between researchers and practitioners, the second phase will tackle research questions-relating access to energy with access to water and sanitation-that can be translated into concrete recommendations and solutions for organizations working with vulnerable populations.
Support¶
Sponsors¶
IMPACT-R is currently hosted at the Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies (IASS, Potsdam).
The Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies conducts research with the goal of understanding, advancing, and guiding processes of societal change towards sustainable development. Its research approach is transformative, transdisciplinary, and co-creative: IASS researchers collaborate with diverse actors from science, policymaking and public administration as well as business and civil society to develop a common understanding of sustainability challenges and generate potential solutions.
HEDERA¶
HEDERA is a Berlin-based startup that develops digital solutions for sustainable development.
HEDERA offers the platform to share and scale sustainable investment activities & monitor impact and progress towards the SDGs at the household level. Through its mobile tools, HEDERA empowers institutions to collect information at affordable cost, offering then automatic analysis and web-based visualization tools. The analysis and reporting follow the latest international standards of impact measurement. In addition, through its network, HEDERA allows the efficient connection of stakeholders in the whole impact investing sector.
This jupyter-book has been generated using the HEDERA Impact Toolkit for digital reporting.