Getting started with the assessment

It can be challenging to get started with social assessment. Where do you get started and what do you need to consider?  The goal of the application guidance is to help you with this. It aims to guide you through each of the steps of the product social impact assessment:

• Define business goal and specify initial:
  • Boundaries of the assessment, including choosing stakeholders
  • Data requirements linked to communication
• Perform or check materiality assessment to prioritize topics
• Understand and draw the value chain
  • Distinguish known and unknown value chain actors
  • Use three questions to create longlist of concerns in this chain
• Prepare for hotspot assessment per material topic
  • Get access to data tools, and prepare for desk research
  • Assess data
• Detailed PSIA assessment of hotspots (if required by business goal)

Tools to get started

General introduction for your company

For  a successful product social impact assessment, it is important to inform and involve the relevant departments and suppliers in the process. It helps to be clear on the value of product social impact assessment and what is needed from them. This introduction can form the basis of your communications. Download general introduction for your company. 

Step by step guidance for data collection

Data collection for a social impact assessment can be challenging this guidance takes you through the process step by step.

Download step by step guidance for data collection and processing

Data quality assessment

After data collection it is important to assess the quality of your data. We have developed a data quality matrix which can support you with this. Data quality assessment