Common Impact Indicator_SE

This action-research report addresses a critical gap in climate action: how to measure the social and justice contribution of corporate programs to the energy transition. As clean energy deployment accelerates, conventional reporting remains dominated by output indicators such as people trained, beneficiaries reached, equipment donated or systems installed. These measures are useful but insufficient to show whether people and communities gain the capabilities, resilience and agency needed to participate in a just transition. The report develops and tests a common impact indicator framework for programs linked to energy education, digital learning, equipment donation, volunteering, impact investing and access to energy. It combines a multidisciplinary literature review on just transition, energy justice, empowerment and impact measurement with semi-structured interviews and participatory work across seven programmatic streams. The resulting framework proposes three operational dimensions: capacity building, resilience to climate change, and participation in the sustainable transition. The evidence shows that a just energy transition must be assessed not only through technology deployment or beneficiary counts, but through whether individuals and communities acquire transition-relevant skills, experience improved access to basic services through green electricity, and engage in sustainable transition projects or actions. The report provides methodological guidance, caveats and recommendations for applying the indicator, including disaggregation by gender, geography and marginalized groups, attention to attribution, and stronger micro-level data collection.