PROPARCO

Over the past three years, Proparco has worked hard to improve our impact monitoring systems and the Impact Model is one of the tools we have adopted to achieve this goal.



What is particularly exciting about the JIM is that it has been a joint effort to develop and improve methodologies and assumptions between a number of development finance institutions. Working together means that we can produce and publish impact results that are comparative between institutions, a real step forward towards transparency and accountability.



Proparco’s impact focus lies on three main themes: maintaining and creating high quality jobs, supporting a sustainable environmental transition, and providing access to essential goods and services such as healthcare and finance.



Today, Proparco uses the JIM to gain a greater insight into the indirect effects of our investments. We have previously reported on direct jobs and services to beneficiaries based on reporting received from our clients. The JIM allows us to go further and explore the indirect impacts of investments by looking into the potential of clients to support jobs in the value chain or via the re-spending of salaries..



In addition, Proparco aims to establish a carbon footprint analysis for each new project. Although we already have internal tools for achieving this, we are exploring the comparability of the results between the JIM and our internal tool, with promising initial results. As the financed emissions component of the JIM is developed further, Proparco will be looking into using the JIM as a simpler way of estimating the emissions of our operations.