Measuring our impact

Anchored on our Impact Metrics Framework, we measure our progress to provide a full and accurate representation of our impact

Building transparency through independent assurance

The Alliance exists to develop and demonstrate projects that help end plastic waste in the environment and advance towards plastics circularity. To effect change requires nurturing individual projects and programmes while creating enabling conditions for future replication – and even this requires ongoing trusted engagement and data-driven dialogue across various stakeholder groups to catalyse greater movement towards our mission.

Ensuring that we have robust processes to measure and independently verify our work is integral to providing an accurate view of our progress and to inform such dialogue. That is why we are on a journey to strengthen our reporting so we can share our experience and results based on transparent and independently assured metrics. We are raising the bar.

Our Impact Metrics Framework provides a consistent approach through which we can quantify, track, and report our progress. The framework outlines a suite of top-level metrics across five core and two associated impact areas most relevant to the work that we do.

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Impact metric framework

Develop Solution Model

  • Projects demonstrating Solution Models

Enable the ecosystem

  • Organisations engaged
  • Participants reached through education programmes

Mobilise capital

  • Total funding commitments
  • Total funding allocated

Reduce unmanaged waste

  • Cumulative reduction in unmanaged plastic waste
  • Potential forecasted capacity installed to collect and properly manage municipal solid waste

Capture value from waste

  • Cumulative plastic waste valorised
  • Potential forecasted capacity to recover/use waste

Create social benefit

  • People with new or improved access to waste management
  • New jobs created or informal sector workers operating under responsible working conditions

Mitigate climate impact

  • Annual estimated reduction in emissions

Our impact at a glance

128,240

tonnes since 2019

Amount of value captured from unmanaged plastic waste, primarily through recycling

Solution Accelerator Fund

118,580

tonnes since 2019

Amount of of unmanaged plastic waste reduced

Solution Accelerator Fund

270,551

participants

reached through education programmes since 2019

Solution Accelerator Fund

10

projects

demonstrating Solution Models

Solution Accelerator Fund

US$371

million since 2019

total revenue collected

Solution Accelerator Fund

US$271

million since 2019

allocated to mission-related activities

Solution Accelerator Fund

904

organisations in 2023

engaged by the Alliance to enable system change, finance and/or develop mission-related activities

Solution Accelerator Fund

7,926

informal waste workers in 2023

with improved income, working conditions and/or social benefits

Solution Accelerator Fund

Evolving the way we measure our impact

For the purposes of reporting our 2023 impact, we voluntarily sought external Limited Assurance for those metrics prioritised as ‘assurance-ready’ as well as an assessment of reasonableness in approach for those that we will continue to develop. Against the backdrop of the varied projects and solutions that we are testing and implementing, and challenging environments and systems, we are committed to the path of continuous improvement so we can present a full set of independently assured results in future reporting years.

Read about how we’re measuring our impact in our Basis of Reporting 2023.

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