Social Performance Task Force

Assessing, improving, demonstrating:sptf has worked with one of its members, cerise, to develop a free assessment tool (called the spi4) that enables fsps to assess their social performance management practices against the universal standards. This tool allows fsps to understand their spm strengths and weaknesses and create an action plan for improvement. Sptf does not directly provide technical assistance to fsps because that would compete with its members. Rather, sptf works to make sure that the most updated trainings, resources, and tools are available to fsps and ta providers, and that they know how to use them. Sptf also conducts online trainings and provides free resources in several languages to help improve practices related to the universal standards.to advance work on demonstrating outcomes, the sptf runs the outcomes working group to develop guidelines both for investors and for fsps for measuring and managing outcomes as well as to create a list of common outcome indicators in the areas of poverty/housing/assets, business, and resilience.

Reporting & demonstrating:reporting on spm data helps the responsible inclusive finance sector be transparent, ensures the data is available to investors, and allows the industry to benchmark and analyze trends. Sptf plays a coordinating role in this activity as mix, cerise and the rating agencies conduct the vast majority of the direct work in collection of data. Sptf is managing discussion amongst these actors to consolidate this spm information onto a common data platform so that it is more accessible to users.