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IMPACTS
Ninti One’s organisational focus is on having
a positive impact. This means generating
things that society and individuals value –
things that contribute to social functioning
and to individual wellbeing for people in
remote Australia. It means demonstrable
improvements in people’s lives and expansion
of their options.
Measuring social impact is complex. Only a
minor proportion of Ninti One’s impacts are
goods and services for final consumption, and
few are traded in competitive markets that
convey a price signal. Much of Ninti One’s
impacts are in the form of “public goods” from
which benefits are diffused widely among
individuals, communities and across time.
Even where tangible impacts can be readily
identified, the sparseness of markets in remote
Australia means that prices do not always show
the value of alternative uses of those resources.
This year, Ninti One has invested in detailed
evaluation of the costs and impacts of selected
projects, methods to assess the net social
benefits and a benefit to cost ratio in each of
the key areas listed.