Security Return on Investment

For a long while, social investors have sought a “triple bottom line” – to extract social, environmental and economic returns from their investments in impact projects. Alongside this we have seen a vast expansion in the amount of regulatory reporting required around Environmental, Social and Governance practices.

Streamlining all this into simple frameworks that are suitable both for deep-tier supply chains, emerging markets and Africa in particular, but also that reflect the increasing need for financial institutions to justify their work in defence and security, has given rise to my Security Returns on Investment Framework as a means of providing quantitative metrics around societal and security benefits from trade, trade finance and investments.

I am grateful to the support of the ITFA and its ESG working group that allowed me to develop this methodology.