Tourism investment & finance 21 Unit 2: Evaluate Investment Environment

Organization description
: Organization mission, operational model, and location 
2. 
Product description
: Description of organization’s products and services and target 
markets 
3. 
Financial performance
: Commonly reported financial indicators 
4. 
Operational impact:
Indicators describe organization’s policies, employees, and 
environmental performance. 
5. 
Product impact
: Indicators describe performance and reach of the organization’s 
products and services. 
6. 
Glossary
: Definition of common terms referenced in the indicators
Current sector-specific categories of indicators include agriculture, education, energy, 
environment, financial services, health, housing/community facilities, and water (GIIN Global 
Impact Investing Network, 
http://iris.thegiin.org/iris-standards
). 
M
EASURING 
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CTUAL 
I
NVESTMENT AND 
I
NVESTMENT 
I
MPACT 
The World Bank Group’s Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency created a toolkit for FDI 
promotion that includes M&E of investment promotion. Figure 7.2 shows the steps to measure 
actual investment; descriptions of those steps follow.
 
RESOURCE 7.1 
T
HE 
G
LOBAL 
I
MPACT 
I
NVESTMENT 
N
ETWORK 
(GIIN)
 
 
The GIIN established the Impact Reporting and Investment Standards (IRIS)
 
for impact 
investors to develop a standard set of social and environmental performance metrics. IRIS 
objectives include increasing the use of non-financial data in the business sector by 
establishing performance comparisons and benchmarks while simplifying reporting 
requirements for companies and their investors.
http://iris.thegiin.org/iris-standards
  

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