Distributor Individuals: Low Income (PI2125)

This metric is intended to capture self-employed, low income individuals who sell the organization's products or services - either to other distributors (wholesale) or to the ultimate consumer (retail).

Distributors do not need to exclusively sell the organization's products or services. Direct employees that distribute the organization's goods or services should be considered as employees and not as distributors.

The population classified as low income includes all those who fall below a fixed threshold and is inclusive of those classified as poor or very poor. Due to the complexities of assessing the poverty level of distributors, organizations will likely have to use specific assessment tools to report on this accurately. See the glossary definition for additional information on commonly used tools to help determine the absolute poverty level of individuals and households.

This metric is multi-dimensional in regards to the five dimensions of impact: it may help describe the WHO dimension when the stakeholder group represented by the metric is the stakeholder group targeted by the investment or organization. It may also help measure the HOW MUCH Scale dimension, which helps estimate the number of the targeted stakeholders experiencing the outcome. For more on the alignment of IRIS metrics to the five dimensions of impact, see specific guidance document. No single metric is sufficient to understand an impact; rather, metrics are selected as a set across all dimensions of impact. When possible, the selection of metrics to measure and describe the five dimensions should be based on best practice and evidence.