Social Impact Assessment
Social impact assessment (IA) is a tool used to assess the social impacts—both positive and negative resulting
from planned interventions (such as policies, programs, projects or actions), as well as any social change invoked by those interventions. The goal of social IA is to help decision-makers produce more socially, economically, and environmentally sustainable results. Social IA draws on knowledge gained through collaborative, community-based tools, and is therefore complementary to many other sustainability tools discussed in this document