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IMPACT is an international initiative which focusses on preventive and social health and promote awareness and intervention to prevent avoidable disability. Founded in 1980s by Sir John Wilson, IMPACT was formed as a part of the UN's Decade of disabled people. The UK IMPACT Foundation (UKIF), which is the central organisation to its sister ...
The IMPACT initiative was first announced by the fifth prime minister of Malaysia during the closing ceremony of the 15th World Congress on Information Technology (WCIT) Archived 2013-01-10 at the Wayback Machine 2006, held in the Austin, Texas, United States.
IMPACT co-constructs and shares knowledge, tools and practices that enable key humanitarian actors to make evidence-based decisions. IMPACT implements evaluation and monitoring programs, surveys and diagnoses, as well as organizational capacity-building programs in direct partnership with humanitarian actors or via its inter-agency initiatives.
Investing with ESG considerations is sometimes referred to as responsible investing or, in more proactive cases, impact investing. [1] The term ESG first came to prominence in a 2004 report titled "Who Cares Wins", which was a joint initiative of financial institutions at the invitation of the United Nations (UN). [2]
During the 2024 election, the Washington GOP claimed the Attorney General’s Office “weaponized” the ballot impact statements for the initiatives, which is required under a state statute.
Initiatives must meet five criteria in order to be considered collective impact: [2] Common agenda: All participating organizations (government agencies, non-profits, community members, etc.) have a shared vision for social change that includes a common understanding of the problem and a joint approach to solving the problem through agreed upon actions.
Meals on Wheels America spokesperson Jenny Young said it was unclear how the directive would impact their programs given that the law governing grants for senior nutrition programs sends funding ...
The International Initiative for Impact Evaluation (3ie) was set up in response to this report. 3ie seeks to improve the lives of poor people in low- and middle-income countries by providing, and summarizing, evidence of what works, when, why and for how much. 3ie operates a grant program, financing impact studies in low- and middle-income ...