Social Impact Management

Social Impact Management (SIM)

ACCIONA has its own methodology for identifying, assessing and managing all impacts derived form its business.

A key tool for measuring and improving the environment and communities with which we assess impacts, common but adapted to the corporation's business and based in all the countries where we work.  

The corporation's own methodology is based on international standards and these four main phases:

1. Social risk characterisation: Study of the degree of the project's social risk by characterising the social risk from the design and tender phase.
2. Social evaluation of the project: Analysis of the sociodemographics of the population in the project's area of influence, identification and assessment of the prositive or negative social impacts and preparation of a proposal of social measures.
3. Communication and dialogue with the communities: Depending on the type of project, lines of communication or dialogue are set up with the local communities and other stakeholders in order to inform them about the project, its main impacts and the social measures that are going to be carried out.
4. Implementation and monitoring of measures: Launch of the measures identified to prevent and mitigate any negative social impacts and to bolster the positive impacts.