Community development contributions

Definition: Amount of money spent by the client towards activities that benefit local communities during the reporting period.

Rationale:  This indicator captures the breadth of development effects that IFIs desire to measure and is easily reportable by clients. It yields data that IFIs may use for further analysis on client contributions as they deem fit, including possibilities for referencing contributions for community benefit against total project cost, turnover, profit or total number of beneficiaries. However, establishing a threshold may be challenging since the level of contributions may vary by country, sector and the relevant market in which an IFI client operates. Non-financial contributions of the client are not captured by the indicator due to IFI challenges in ensuring all clients use the same approach to monetize their contributions to local communities.

Unit: # currency