Learn how responsAbility combines

Impact & ESG

What is Impact Investing?

Impact investing is investing with the expectation to receive attractive financial returns plus measurable impact returns, meaning targeted positive social and/or environmental outcomes. This type of investing accounts for 100% of responsAbility's activities.

What is ESG Investing?

ESG Investing means investing only where you can ensure that your capital will be used in a way that will do no harm. Assessments for ESG investments must be carried out in order to guarantee this, such as reviewing labor conditions or ensuring that local biodiversity is maintained.

responsAbility's approach: how ESG & Impact work together

how impact and ESG work together diagram

ESG

This assessment process measures a portfolio company’s Environmental, Social and Governance risks. responsAbility then uses the ESG Engagement approach to manage and mitigate portfolio companies’ ESG risks. This ensures that all our investments have only positive impact.

Impact

We actively target positive impact that is linked to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). To quantify this impact, we use a framework that is similar to the IFC Impact Principle’s 5 dimensions and metrics that utilize industry definitions (IRIS+, GOGLA, 2X).

*Impact numbers shown are for responsAbility products in aggregate, not fund-specific.

Our Impact & ESG Team

Paul Hailey

Head of Sustainability & Impact Link to full profile

Prajakta Saraph

ESG Analyst LinkedIn

Mahendra Gunasekera

Senior ESG Officer LinkedIn

Tanya Philip

Impact Analyst LinkedIn

Technical Assistance and Impact

Our Technical Assistance Team are capacity builders. They engage with our portfolio companies and do everything from trainings on how to become a "green" bank, to driving awareness of environmental and social risks when building solar power plants, to ensuring that portfolio companies have access to local consultants who can support them in their sustainability goals.

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