How to select the best methodology to evaluate the social impact of your initiative?

• Autor(a) principal: Pinto, Miriam Magdala
• Data de Publicação: 2019
• Outros Autores: Veronez, Larissa Honorato, Wulpi, Liara Pazini, Gaigher, Lhais Corradi
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Revista Tecnologia e Sociedade (Online)
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.utfpr.edu.br/rts/article/view/7821
• topic: Área: 3.08.00.00-5 Engenharia de Produção/ Sub-área:3.08.03.00-4 Engenharia do Produto; Metodologias de avaliação; Impacto social; Avaliação de impacto; Validação de estrutura; Fluxograma.; Methodologies of evaluation. Social impact. Impact assessment. Structure validation. Flow chart

Social Impact Initiatives (SII) can be organizations, programs or projects that aim to promotepositive social impact through significant change in society. However, despite the positiveexpectation of results, negative effects may occur. Therefore, it is crucial that SII adoptImpact Assessment Methodologies (IMA) in order to measure and understand the realeffect of their efforts. Several IMA are available, but there is a lack of mechanisms to helpthe processes of identification and selection of the most appropriates. This articlecontributes to close this gap by proposing a structure that guides the selection of IMA.Eleven IMA were selected by bibliographic research and SII consulting. Using thedimensions: type of methodology (structural or operational) and type of SII (governmentalorganizations, companies, businesses with social impact and non-governmentalorganizations); we proposed a flowchart that guides the selection of IMA, adjusted after useand feedback from SII’s executives.