Social Impact Finance Eligible Areas

Please find below a non-exhaustive list of activities eligible for the ISFA programme.

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Social Impact Finance Pillars

1. Decent Work across the Value-chain

An activity will be classified as contributing to Decent Work across the Value-Chain if it focuses on:

access to quality education;
equitable access to employment;
entrepreneurship and remuneration, access to rights and protections in work;
supporting workers in green and just transition.

2. Adequate Living Standards and Wellbeing

An activity will be classified as contributing to Adequate Living Standards and Wellbeing if it focuses on:

affordable housing;
access to quality healthcare;
food security and sustainable food systems;
access to clean water and sanitation;
access to affordable and functional economic infrastructure.

3. Inclusive and Sustainable Communities

An activity will be classified as contributing to Inclusive and Sustainable Communities if it focuses on:

social inclusion;
access to social services and support;
access to and preservation of culture.

Eligible Activities organized by Category

Category	Sub-categories	Examples of activities
1. Decent work across the value-chain	1.1 Access to quality education	Access to primary and secondary education Access to post-secondary, tertiary and vocational training Access to lifelong learning Extending educational capacities Improving the quality of the existing educational infrastructure and equipment In-workplace training
1. Decent work across the value-chain	1.2 Equitable access to employment, entrepreneurship and remuneration	Employment generation and retention initiatives creating and preserving decent jobs Support to the SMEs in the event of extreme events (e.g. natural disaster, extreme weather events, public health disaster…) Access to employment for people who are far removed from it or who live in vulnerable areas Increasing farmer income share in outgrower schemes and/or ensuring fair and timely payments Supporting entrepreneurship for marginalized or disadvantaged populations Access to employee leadership programs for historically marginalized or excluded workers
1. Decent work across the value-chain	1.3 Access to rights and protections in work	Providing grievance mechanisms and prevention of harassment/ discrimination Health and safety compliance (consideration for dangerous working conditions for contractors)
1. Decent work across the value-chain	1.4 Supporting workers in green and just transition	Creating and preserving decent jobs as part of a just, green transition Retaining and reskilling workers who have lost work due climate change and/or green transition Fairly distributing the benefits of biodiversity and natural capital amongst societies and communities
2. Adequate living standards and wellbeing	2.1 Access to quality healthcare	Developing or distributing healthcare products Extending healthcare capacities Improving the quality of the existing healthcare facilities Healthcare logistics services Providing access to healthcare services Providing access to disease prevention and management services Providing access to mental health services Providing health education and awareness Technology innovation and promotion of healthcare
2. Adequate living standards and wellbeing	2.2 Access to affordable housing	Extending the social and affordable housing supply Improving the quality of the existing social and affordable housing facilities Providing financial assistance to facilitate access to housing and ownership
2. Adequate living standards and wellbeing	2.3 Food security & sustainable food systems	Access to healthy and nutritious and sufficient food supply Addressing food waste Supporting farmers Supporting resilient agriculture production & processing Supporting resilient agriculture logistics, trade & retail Supporting innovations on improved agricultural productivity and resilience
2. Adequate living standards and wellbeing	2.4 Access to clean water and sanitation	Access to good-quality drinking water Access to sanitation services Water & sanitation infrastructure development Water & sanitation infrastructure maintenance Access to menstrual hygiene products Access to WASH education and awareness
2. Adequate living standards and wellbeing	2.5 Access to safe, affordable convenient and effective financial services	Access to bank banking services (bank accounts, mobile money and savings) for all Access to insurance services
2. Adequate living standards and wellbeing	2.6 Access to affordable and functional economic infrastructure	Access to transport Facilitating and supporting mobility Access to telecommunications Access to internet and digital infrastructure Access to electricity for vulnerable or remote populations Access to clean cooking - Access to green and public spaces
3. Inclusive and sustainable communities	3.1 Social inclusion, diversity and gender equality	Inclusion of people with disabilities Addressing recognised gender gaps in communities and society Having a transformative impact on gender equality and time savings for women (e.g. design features of mobility projects, access to finance for female entrepreneurs) Reducing inequalities of previously excluded or marginalized groups Addressing and promoting human rights National and international solidarity organisations working in the humanitarian field or for the common good
3. Inclusive and sustainable communities	3.2 Access to social services & support	Access to childcare services Access to caregiving services Access to support services for children Assistance and/or adaptation for elderly or differently abled individuals Access to long-term care Access to social services for all, including marginalized or vulnerable populations
3. Inclusive and sustainable communities	3.3 Access to and preservation of culture	Preservation of cultural heritage Supporting culture and the arts Reducing cultural inequalities

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The Initiative reserves the right to update this document at any time. The Initiative has final authority in case any conflicts arise between this document and any other classification systems, taxonomies, or policies.

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Social Impact Finance Eligible Areas