Client Organizations: Total (PI9652)

Number of enterprises that were clients of the organization during the reporting period.

Reporting Format Unit Referenced within Metric Definition
Metric Type Metric
Metric Level Product/Service, Organization
IRIS Metric Citation IRIS, 2021. Client Organizations: Total (PI9652). v5.2.

Footnote

Organizations should footnote all assumptions used, including source of data. Organizations should also footnote the types of enterprises that were clients, using Client Type (PD7993).

Usage Guidance

This metric is intended to capture the number of unique client organizations (enterprises) of the reporting organization during the reporting period.
This metric is multi-dimensional with regard 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 IRIS+ and the Five Dimensions of Impact (https://iris.thegiin.org/document/iris-and-the-five-dimensions/). 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.

Impact Categories & Themes

Cross Category

Metrics identified as "cross-category" are those that are relevant to any IRIS+ Impact Category or Impact Theme (i.e., these metrics are not specific to any particular industry/category or theme).