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The project aims to develop the scientific basis to generate models, processes and new methodologies to comprehensively evaluate impact in social, economic, environmental, and cultural dimensions departing from IMP framework applied to a social entrepreneurship fund of SCML.
The literature on impact evaluation is vast albeit fragmented, with coexisting methodologies that differ as to the field of vision, time horizon, scope, the approach, and the underpinnings of its effectiveness. This fragmentation has been leading to partial accounts that often conflate outputs with outcomes and that are criticized due to their tacit assumptions. There is a need to vertically integrate all levels of impact evaluation as well as horizontally integrate the indicators and methodologies that allow the comprehensive coverage of its true multidimensional nature. This is the challenge that drives this project, to systematize a methodology and a theoretical model that translate an integral impact evaluation.
The project develops on a mixed-methods approach (quantitative and qualitative) from a research-action perspective, by mobilizing knowledge to sustain the theory of change, the impact indicators, as well as the supportive methodologies and information processing.
Findings are expected to offer an integration of extant fragmented literature on methodologies and knowledge and set the basis for a comprehensive multidimensional impact evaluation framework. The empirical dimension of the project within the SCML fund evaluation constitutes an illustrative case study of the 4Dimpact framework.
Empirically, the project deals with a set of social entrepreneurship projects intending to evaluate their impact and social value. Within this setting, this project produces new methods and tools that allow a structured multidimensional approach to the evaluation in this domain. Thus, the social impact of the project is contingent upon its effectiveness in leveraging the measurement of the real impact of the socially oriented projects. Likewise, the economic impact lies in its ability to turn visible the economic valuation of the outcomes achieved by those social entrepreneur projects.
| Research Centre | Research Group | Role in Project | Begin Date | End Date |
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| BRU-Iscte | -- | Partner | 2020-08-19 | 2021-12-31 |
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| Name | Affiliation | Role in Project | Begin Date | End Date |
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| Nelson Jorge Campos Ramalho | Professor Associado (DRHCO); Integrated Researcher (BRU-Iscte); | Global Coordinator | 2020-08-19 | 2021-12-31 |
| Teresa Almeida | Associate Researcher (BRU-Iscte); | Researcher | 2020-08-19 | 2021-12-31 |
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With the objective to increase the research activity directed towards the achievement of the United Nations 2030 Sustainable Development Goals, the possibility of associating scientific projects with the Sustainable Development Goals is now available in Ciência_Iscte. These are the Sustainable Development Goals identified for this project. For more detailed information on the Sustainable Development Goals, click here.
