Methodological Characteristics and Development Process of Social Return on Investment(SROI)

Abstract

  In the field of evaluation of non-profit organizations, process evaluation had been played its major role in the past. However, increasing financial pressure of the government and growing civil sector created recognition as a new actor in the provision of public services. In this trend, demand for methodology development for impact measurement started to be discussed.

  Social Return on Investment (SROI) is an emerging methodology for impact measurement. Although many point out the space for further improvement, expectation toward the SROI drove the development and implementation of the methodology in US, Europe as well as in Japan.

  In this paper, based on the characteristics and development process of SROI, its potentiality for consensus generation for social value for increased productivity is discussed.