Created in 1998, CERISE is a French non-profit organization, pioneer in social performance management. CERISE is dedicated to responsible and ethical finance, willing to find solutions for mission-driven organizations to make their social goals a reality. 

CERISE believes finance can be responsible, ethical and inclusive, as long as economic actors adopt approaches to measure and manage their social performance.

As a social innovator, CERISE works with actors in inclusive finance, social business and impact-investing to co-create social standards and social assessment tools that are free to all.

CERISE offers consultancy services to all types of mission-driven organizations equipping them with the skills and tools they need to define and achieve their impact thesis.

This BEAM module provides guidance on monitoring the performance of individual programme interventions. An intervention is understood here as a project which forms one component of the wider programme, with its own defined resources and implementation period.

Guidance on measuring intervention results has already been set out in detail in the DCED Standard for Results Measurement, and this module therefore makes extensive reference to those sections of the DCED Standard that are used in monitoring performance at intervention level. 

It is worth noting that the DCED also offers to audit monitoring frameworks to assess whether they comply with the standard. Such audits can help to improve the quality of a framework, and increase the credibility of results in the eyes of donors, governments and other stakeholders. It also allows programme teams to undertake future data-gathering and report-writing (rather than outsourcing this to consultants) in the knowledge that this will be audited by external experts.

IRIS+ makes it easier for investors to translate their impact intentions into impact results.

All investors and companies create positive and negative effects on society and the environment. Impact investors seek to maximize the positive and minimize the negative by using the IRIS+ system to integrate social and environmental factors into investment decisions alongside risk and return.

Credible, comparable impact data are needed to inform impact investment decisions and drive greater impact results. IRIS+ solves for this by increasing data clarity and comparability, and it provides streamlined, practical, how-to guidance that impact investors need, all in one easy-to-navigate system. It is a free, publicly available resource that is managed by the Global Impact Investing Network – the global champion of impact investing.

GIIN focuses on reducing barriers to impact investment so more investors can allocate capital to fund solutions to the world's most intractable challenges. GIIN does this by building critical infrastructure and developing activities, education, and research that help accelerate the development of a coherent impact investing industry.

In 2015, DCED decided to launch an initiative to harmonize a set of outcome and impact indicators that would be used, to report on results from advisory/technical assistance operations for private sector development. 

While the DCED Standard includes three universal indicators on jobs, income and scale, there was a need to have a set of indicators beyond these three. Since DCED focuses on technical assistance-related interventions to promote private sector development (PSD), members supported the concept of harmonizing the indicators for reporting results for these approaches. Harmonization would ease the reporting burden for clients and beneficiaries/partners that are required to report to multiple donors.

The DCED Standard is a practical seven-step framework for results measurement. It enables projects to monitor their progress towards their objectives and better measure changes, manage implementation, and demonstrate results.

The SPTF promotes social performance management (SPM): The systems that organizations use to achieve their stated social goals and put customers at the center of strategy and operations. SPM practices include defining and monitoring social goals, developing client-centric products and services, treating clients and employees responsibly, balancing social and financial performance, and stewarding environmental resources responsibly.

The Social Performance Task Force (SPTF) is a non-profit membership organization with more than 4,800 members from all over the world.

The DCED is a forum for learning about the most effective ways to create economic opportunities for the poor, based on practical experience in Private Sector Development (PSD).

Asocam Network for knowledge management in Latin America operates a website focusing on monitoring and evaluation of development initiatives oriented towards impact. This site presents Asocam's methodological proposal, including case studies, tools, a virtual library and more.

Welcome to the Project Cycle Management interactive platform (PCMi) of the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC). PCMi is part of the SDC's training and further education programme for strengthening development professionals' core competence 'results orientation in international cooperation'.