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Sugarcane. Photo © Didier Gentilhomme, Fairtrade International Welcome to the Demonstrating Impacts project blog where you can follow the progress of ISEAL's Demonstrating and Improving Poverty Impacts (DIPI) project. You can find out more about the project, which is funded by the Ford Foundation, at our Demonstrating Impacts page.

Calls for proposals to support ISEAL's work on impacts

Marta Maireles González
19 Sep 2012
ISEAL has announced two calls for proposals to support ISEAL's members work on demonstrating and improving impacts

Webinar recording about the status of the project - Sept. 2012

Marta Maireles González
12 Sep 2012
Are you wondering where we stand on the project? Do you want to know about the main progress since we started in October last year? Would you like to hear about the next steps?

Agenda to drive increased knowledge about standards and poverty reduction

Marta Maireles González
25 Aug 2012
The group of ISEAL members participating in the DIPI project have agreed on a common agenda for the pivotal research questions that must be answered to better understand the contribution of sustainability standards to poverty reduction

Building the Bridge between M&E and Audit Data

Marta Maireles González
27 Jun 2012
As ISEAL members move forward with implementing the Impacts Code and building their monitoring and evaluation systems, they depend on credible and high quality information about how certification is leading to sustainability objectives. Can the assurance process help to generate this data? A session at the ISEAL conference looked at how audits could be strengthened to support M&E.

Standards & the Private Sector: Mutual Interest in Impacts

Kristin Komives
15 Jun 2012
In a frank and earnest session during the ISEAL conference, standards-setters and top companies discussed their shared need to learn more about the impacts of certification. Debating the challenges involved collecting and analysing data, they looked at how collaboration could help deliver the high quality information that is needed about impact.

Project update: Help shape the research agenda for the Demonstrating Impacts project!

Marta Maireles González
1 May 2012
In this update we would like to invite you to provide input to help shape the research agenda that ISEAL members participating in the DIPI project are working on... Where are the gaps? What are the research priorities?

Project update: The Demonstrating and Improving Poverty Impacts has been launched

Marta Maireles González
31 Oct 2011
In October 2011 the Demonstrating and Improving Poverty Impacts (DIPI) project was launched with a two day workshop hosted by FSC International.