60 Decibels — Impact Measurement

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The 2024 MFI Index

The Microfinance Index is a landmark financial inclusion study that provides high-quality, comparable impact data for the microfinance industry, driven entirely by client voices. This annual initiative has expanded to collect more than 1.4 million unique global data points in 2024.

Introducing 60dB Signal: Customer Data to Transform Your Investments

Our new platform spotlights the companies that are making the most impact for their customers – hosting a diverse range of organizations, built on the world’s largest dataset for social impact measurement.

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Digital Agriculture Services in Kenya: The Farmer Perspective

Explore our latest report based on 1,484 farmers sharing their experiences with digital agriculture in Kenya, in collaboration with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and Busara.

A Better Way to Measure Social Impact (Harvard Business Review)

Explore how Bayer’s Crop Science division has developed reliable stakeholder reported measures of the social impact of its inclusive growth projects with the support of 60 Decibels.

CSDDD Guide: Navigating the Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive

CSDDD is a new regulation that expands corporate responsibility across entire value chains, presenting a new challenge for businesses. Download our practical guide for your first steps implementing CSDDD.

7 Things We Learned From Farmers in the Coffee Supply Chain

Introducing the 2024 Coffee Farmer Thriving Index! We spoke to thousands of coffee farmers in Uganda and Rwanda to answer a simple question: are farmers in coffee supply chains thriving, or barely surviving?

India Impact Report

Based on interviews with more than 24,000 respondents in India, this report identifies key challenges and opportunities to improve social impact performance for organisations and investors alike.

Why Off-Grid Energy Matters 2024

Why Off-Grid Energy Matters 2024 is the world’s most comprehensive social impact assessment of off-grid energy to date, featuring insights from 79,000 energy customers in over 30 different countries.

60dB Impact Due Diligence, Explained

We’re excited to share our 60dB Due Diligence solution – built to make pre-investment impact measurement simple, fast and affordable.

Cambodia Microfinance Report

This report provides an in-depth look at the Cambodian microfinance sector and its impact on clients’ businesses, households, resilience, financial management, and agency.

2024 Off-Grid Energy Social Impact Awards

Ranked across 3 areas in the Energy Impact Index, these energy organizations are the Social Impact Award winners featured in Why Off-Grid Energy Matters 2024.

Insights from three top-performing financial service providers

60 Decibels’ Microfinance Index Top Impact Awards are a recognition of top performance in delivering financial services and making a positive impact on the lives of their clients, relative to their peers. We asked 3 of our 2023 awardees to share insights into how their business operations have contributed to achieving top scores across multiple indicators – here’s what they had to say!

Why this Latin American venture fund is listening to customers to drive impact and returns

Throughout the last five years, while investing their first Fund, ALIVE has demonstrated that a deeper impact measurement strategy is not only attainable, but highly beneficial to all stakeholders.

The relationship between microfinance and climate resilience

Our research reveals a positive correlation between microloan borrowers’ ability to handle a major emergency expense and their improved financial management and savings balance. This underscores the critical role of microfinance in enabling clients, especially women, to build resilience against financial shocks.

Disability Insights Report: Transforming Energy Access

This report delves into energy product/service customer households, differentiating between those with and without disabilities.

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How we work

Data built by listening.

Who knows your impact best? The people who experience it. That’s why we listen to them directly, building measurement tools around what they say matters most to their lives.

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Speedy and standardized.

Most impact measurement is either too complex to be scalable or too simple to be useful. Ours is a Goldilocks approach: 15-minute, standardized surveys built for repetition and comparability.

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By phone, by real people, anywhere.

Nothing gets to the root of impact better than a direct conversation. Our Research Assistants speak, by phone, in local language, to the people you impact.

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Over thousands of impact measurement projects, we’ve designed measurement tools for multiple sectors and themes. Can’t see your sector here? Get in touch and we’ll work with you to build something new.