Translation of "théorie de l'impact social " (French → English) :

The U.S. Senate has just held hearings on social innovation, particularly on social impact bonds.

While innovation, diversification, and strategic investment will mean greater sustainability, collaboration, and long-term success, the Edmonton Police Service remains cautious about the evidence to support the necessity of social investment and about how reasonable investments would be determined, what oversight regime would support initiatives, what recourse mechanisms are in place for investors who believe their investment produced less than desirable outcomes, the risk profile of assets to be held by the social investment bond, the amount of funds that may be disbursed from a bond each year, a usage policy that indicates the purposes ...[+++] for which disbursements can be used, and how the effectiveness of social impact bonds will be assessed.

Certainly there are challenges with measurement, but there are also an increasing number of organizations globally and within Canada that are developing different types of metrics for measuring the social impact of social services and programs, and for measuring the social impact of enterprises in this space.

All governments have actually put money forward in the front end as opposed to allowing the private sector to make that initial investment, so we've not really seen a good test of that model.

15. Calls on the Commission to take full account of the correct horizontal social clause as specified in Article 9 TFEU, under which the EU has to take into account requirements linked to the promotion of a high level of employment, the guarantee of adequate social protection, the fight against social exclusion, and a high level of education, training and protection of human health, and calls on the Commission to specify how the Platform will affect assessments of the implementation of that clause; calls for more in-depth social impact assessments of EU p ...[+++]olicies, even where those policies are initiated by the European Council rather than the Commission, as in the case of the Euro Plus pact; takes the view that such in-depth analysis of the application of this clause will make it possible to avoid a levelling-down of social standards in Europe and facilitate the development of a common social basis in Europe; calls for this social impact assessment to be carried out in conjunction with associations active in combating poverty, and for it to take the situation of the poorest people in Europe as a benchmark; takes the view that such assessments should involve Parliament, the Committee of the Regions, the European Economic and Social Committee and the Commission departments responsible for social affairs, under the supervision of a director-general reporting to the Commission Secretariat;

15. Calls on the Commission to take full account of the correct horizontal social clause as specified in Article 9 TFEU, under which the EU has to take into account requirements linked to the promotion of a high level of employment, the guarantee of adequate social protection, the fight against social exclusion, and a high level of education, training and protection of human health, and calls on the Commission to specify how the Platform will affect assessments of the implementation of that clause; calls for more in-depth social impact assessments of EU p ...[+++]olicies, even where those policies are initiated by the European Council rather than the Commission, as in the case of the Euro Plus pact; takes the view that such in-depth analysis of the application of this clause will make it possible to avoid a levelling-down of social standards in Europe and facilitate the development of a common social basis in Europe; calls for this social impact assessment to be carried out in conjunction with associations active in combating poverty, and for it to take the situation of the poorest people in Europe as a benchmark; takes the view that such assessments should involve Parliament, the Committee of the Regions, the European Economic and Social Committee and the Commission departments responsible for social affairs, under the supervision of a director-general reporting to the Commission Secretariat;