Impact · Global South
Impact work in emerging markets.
Impact methodology applied to Extended Producer Responsibility and circular economy programmes in the Global South, where measurement is hardest and matters most.
Talk to usWhere the value chain really sits.
For most consumer-facing organisations, the bulk of social and environmental impact occurs in emerging markets, in production, materials, waste and the informal economies that handle them. Measurement here is harder, and too often skipped.
We bring the same methodological rigour to the Global South that we apply elsewhere, rather than treating it as a footnote.
EPR and circular economy.
Extended Producer Responsibility and circular economy programmes are expanding rapidly across emerging markets. We help organisations design and measure these programmes so that obligations are met and outcomes are real.
Measured, not assumed.
Impact in these contexts is frequently asserted rather than evidenced, greenwishing by another name. We use the HIE® Framework to quantify what is actually changing on the ground.
Programmes
The programmes we work on
Landfills2Landmarks
A UN-accredited NGO working on second-hand textile waste, extended producer responsibility and circular infrastructure in Ghana and the UK. The HIE® Framework is applied to its impact reporting.
Read moreBALWA Africa Enterprise
A tailoring and skills enterprise in the Kakuma refugee settlement in Kenya, where livelihoods, training and local production are measured rather than asserted.
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What we do
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