Impact Advisory

SELECTED IMPACT-FOCUSED PROGRAMS

Arcan Impact supports the ecosystem, corporates, startups and SMEs with various impact-focused programs, courses and community circles that enables entities to enhance their understanding, improve their communications and articulate their impact offering. Key efforts include:

• Sustainable Impact: a 7-month long program, working closely with startups, scale-ups, funds and other companies on becoming better at articulating their impact through creating frameworks for measurement, management and reporting. Through a Train-the-Trainers approach, working with 20 ESOs, a minimum of 50 startups and SMEs, enhancing their understanding of impact and sustainability, articulating their impact offerings, creating impact statements, theory of change and more.

• Activate Impact: aimed at equipping participating SMEs with the tools and insights needed to enhance their impact, 15 participants from diverse companies and backgrounds took part in a 20-hour program delivered across 6 sessions, covering the importance of impact, climate and gender lens deep dives, theoretical & practical frameworks, Theory of Change, Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning, and SDG Assessments. The program also features engaging fireside chats, providing real-world impact stories.

• Impact Circles: Casual, informal and intimate conversations with startups and SMEs on their thinking and concerns around impact and sustainability. Honest conversations between entrepreneurs in groups of 5-7 with more than 10 Impact Circles conducted.