Learning objectives
Review of the financial evaluation methodologies of investments.
In-depth, study of social investment evaluation methodologies.
We are deepening of the SROI methodology and development of skills related to the development of this evaluation.
Prerequisites
Financial calculation elements
Course unit content
Investment projects, in general, and the planning of urban and infrastructural interventions, in particular, are always accompanied by values relating to financial sustainability and their profitability. This module proposes reflections and methodologies for the assessment of social externalities, i.e. for an appropriate assessment of social repercussions for the inhabitants, the community and stakeholders in general.
Full programme
Methods for assessing financial sustainability of a project
Methods for evaluating economic convenience
Methods for assessing social convenience
The SROI methodology
Bibliography
A guide to Social Return on Investment, The Sroi Network, January 2012
Kelly J. Watson, James Evans, Andrew Karvonen, Tim Whitley, Capturing the social value of building: The promise of Social return on Investment (SROI), Building and Environment, 2016.
Kelly J. Watson, Tim Whitley, Applying Social Return on Investment (SROI) to the built environment, Building Research & Information, 2016
Mercedes Ruiz-Lozano, Pilar Tirado-Valencia, Antonio Sianes, Antonio Ariza-Montes, Vincente Fernadez-Rodriguez, M Carmen Lopez-Martin, SROI Methodology for Public Administration Decisions about Financing with Social Criteria, a Case Study, Sustainability, 2020
Teaching methods
Seminar work for the presentation of the methodology and insights relating to project interventions
