SPOs that distribute a portion of their staking rewards to support social enterprise projects and environmental causes need powerful tools to measure and display the positive impact of their operations. Create an impact dashboard for SPO that allows to compare supported projects and promote those with the biggest social and environmental impact per stake. Here's a good way to help meet this challenge. This proposal can scale up the challenge to solve future problems it helps to make more people aware of Cardano. In this proposal, I have not seen the author raise the risks that the challenge may face.

Given the circumstances we currently find ourselves in, fostering an awareness of sustainability and environmental balance is of utmost importance. And other SPOs are doing their part by funding impact initiatives that are bringing about change in various parts of the world. However, the entry of additional cash to these delegation pools is hampered by the lack of transparency between the delegators of such Pools and the impact of the funded initiatives. The author aims to pull back this curtain and let delegations evaluate the effect that their contributions have strengthened. This response to the issue from various viewpoints, one of which is the influx of extra money and traffic across the chain and greater adoption when users are given a tool to evaluate the aforementioned data. This could also attract outside actors looking for a way to effect change. Through this concept, Cardano might become a blockchain of people who care about the environment and increase people's knowledge of it. The main issue, however, would be the standard criteria used to evaluate the impacts, which can wind up being biased toward one over the other given that not all effects might appear to be significant at first glance. Even though the author addresses this, the approach will never seem fair and acceptable unless a workable mitigation mechanism is developed.

In my understanding, this proposals goal is to create a dashboard where the staking rewards of mission-driven SPOs are tracked and measured, so that the delegators can follow the impact of their staking impact in the real world. Simply put, it is a product that aims to bring transparency to mission-driven SPOs and their delegators. The purpose is stated clearly, and the proposed solution addresses this problem.

This type of integration or improvement for people invested in mission-driven SPOs might seem non-impactful at first, but I believe (personal opinion) that this integration has the potential of attracting more users than most would think. For example: Let’s say person A invests in a charity organization, wouldn’t that person want to (1) ensure that the investment goes directly to the intended purpose, and (2) want to know if there are other organizations that could provide better support? That is where the relevancy and strengths lie within this proposal, in that brutal transparency. It will also benefit both delegators and SPOs, targeting different ‘roles’ in the Cardano ecosystem. As the proposer states in the proposal, it will also ‘incentivize the creation of quality projects and provide tangible ways to measure their performance’. 
Considering that many mission-driven SPOs are focused on improving the environment, I agree with the proposers statement that it addresses the challenge by increasing awareness, and potentially incentivising people into changing from environmentally damaging habits.

I love the plan of using an outside framework for measuring impact (by using the GIIN-network, linked in the proposal), by looking at things from another perspective it will increase the credibility of the framework and might also inspire new ideas. Another potential risk is mentioned under the same section in the proposal, what if SPOs are interpreting the framework as competition, and refrains from using it? A change to a more constructive and positive mindset will definitely be needed, and I would’ve liked to see a paragraph in the proposal on how the proposer aims to explain to SPOs what the benefits will be for them personally, without just seeing competition and challenge between them. 

There is definitely a long term plan to keep developing the proposal, and on the Cardano Blockchain. In my experience as a researcher, it is also see KPIs that not only measure the success of the product, but also the method used. In my 4 rounds as a PA, I think I’ve only seen it included once (which speaks very well for the competency and commitment of the proposer.) Overall, I strongly agree that this proposal effectively addresses the challenge.

Based on the information provided in this proposal, I believe that it addresses the challenge setting. The proposers aim to create an SPO impact dashboard that can show people the social and environmental impact of mission-driven pools using the Global Impact Investing Network (GIIN). These mission-driven pools use staked funds to do things like environmental conservation/restoration and education. From the dedicated web portal, users will be able to see the impacts generated by these stake pools. This proposal provides a unique solution to a problem on the Cardano blockchain – people who want to delegate their stake don’t have a way to measure whether their staked ADA will actually make an impact through these mission-driven pools. The proposal addresses the environmental part of the challenge setting by measuring the amount of awareness being produced and the number of people changing an environmentally damaging habit. Generating more interest in the mission-driven pools will increase the number of delegators, which will, in theory, provide more funding to the SPOs to follow through with their missions. This project is a great integration that will provide much utility to the Cardano ecosystem.

The proposers addressed the concern that SPOs may be hesitant to adopt the dashboard since they may see it as a way to generate competition. However, it is more beneficial for the SPOs to participate because they can generate more awareness for their causes. The proposers also addressed future sustainability (more on this in feasibility rationale).

Overall, I do not have any critiques for impact, so I can give it a score of 5. (score given: 5)

SPOs are the backbone of the whole network and being a SPO is hard work since you need to run a node plus you need to attract stake.

Many SPOs commit to a cause but as a community member it is hard to keep track of all of the SPOs and the success of their commitment.

The proposed application aims to fix this. If they would succeed this would have a positive impact on the community and the alignment of SPOs to sustainability goals.

The idea of the proposal is to create a website that has a control panel so that potential SPO delegates related to social and environmental impacts can see the ROI and other comparative metrics.

The problem observed is that the delegator who wants to associate his ADA with some SPO that has an environmental and/or social impact cannot make a comparison of its ROI, that is, what is the efficiency of that staking made for a given SPO.

This proposal aligns with the challenge in two different ways: a) directly: creating a new staking possibility, adding “features” to the blockchain; and b) indirectly: the more efficient the investments (the delegate will have the ability to choose the most efficient SPO, and the SPO will have the ability to verify their own efficiency and create strategies to increase it), the more visibility Cardano will have for society in general. Due to the increasing global concern about climate change, any institution that has sound and efficient investments in this area will bring attention to itself (and it may bring new people to contribute and use the blockchain).

The objectives and metrics are correlated with the success and construction of the proposal phases. Therefore, on the objective side, they explore the ability to deliver the four phases of the project, generating something concrete for each of them. In terms of metrics, the proposal presents two subdivisions: methodological and impact. All these aspects are correlated with the challenge and aim to fulfill the ADA's mission.

It should be mentioned that the project aims to create the PoC. Therefore, the scalability of the project will be related to future development. However, once it is tested and approved, it will be an essential tool for everyone who wants to make a difference by allocating their ADA in SPO with this social and/or environmental bias.

The team outline a plan to create a dashboard for SPOs that showcases the impact of each operator so that delegators can make informed decisions of where to stake their ADA. The team outline the methodology they intend to try and follow from the Global Impact Investing Network (GIIN) that has three main elements of intentionality, additionality and impact measurement. The proposal does not outline the way in which they will measure impact and have added this as part of the research phase for the proposal. This makes it much more difficult to understand and provide feedback on the potential impact of these impact factors and how they could apply to the impact focussed SPOs in the ecosystem. Another piece of information that would have been useful to try and determine whether this would be impactful is how many impact SPOs would be relevant for this application today? This would give some indication towards the realities of potential adoption and the amount of complexity faced by stakers to make decisions on which SPO provides the most impact.

The author has outlined four steps to make their progress easy to follow and measure: phase one will provide a freely available method for delivering specific impact measures tailored to Cardano SPOs; requirements analysis of the Impact Dashboard; a PoC that tests the feasibility of the joint proposal; a report on PoC both from a technical and user interaction perspective based on two months of impact dashboard availability in specific SPOs. These are the indicators that the author will focus on to develop. These metrics are completely trackable. The proposed funding budget is $12.975 less than 20% of the entire challenge budget. The budget is broken down by the author by hours taken in chunks that are relevant to the current challenge. The team consists of 4 members implementing this project, they include: Michele Soavi is the project designer; Mehul Derodra is the leader of the metrics team; Bencze Levente is the developer; Sean Murphy is the project auditor. These are elite members who have a lot of experience in many different professions. Their areas of expertise are well-suited to this challenge. This is a brand new project and waiting to be funded.

The proposer, who has described potential performance indicators that the community can use to measure the project's success, is aware of what success looks like. The KPIs and the challenge's metrics line up. By using concrete impact measures to analyze SPOs, a report on requirement analysis, and a report on Poc from a technical and user-engagement perspective, the proposer's intention is to inform the community of each outcome and proceed with the development step-by-step while keeping in mind the next phase. The proposal's success is determined specifically in two ways that address the issue, either by increasing the usage of impact-driven SPOs, which will increase Cardano engagement or by encouraging the development of SPOs, which will increase the overall impact produced by the Cardano chain and also provide a greater impact-driven ROI. Given the transparency of the indicators and the observable consequences, it should be simple to audit the proposal's success.

As stated under ‘feasibility’, the roadmap has very clear milestones, and the time horizon is as well. The proposing team seems to have experience in research given its methodical process (will share a public document for each proposed steps that will follow metrics that focus on both method and development progress). 
They will investigate the dashboards ability to cover at least 50% of the SPOs, which is ambitious but not impossible. It depends on whether or not they are talking about mission-driven SPOs (probable) or not. 
It is a good choice to measure not only how many SPOs that will use the dashboard, but also how many of the delegators who also check the dashboard (as the proposer intends). 
The measurements of success is once again hinting at the larger picture of the project. They intend to encourage more mission-driven SPOs that will impact more and more people in the world, through Cardano. It is potentially difficult and a bit intangible to measure this type of impact on a larger scale, which might be something to think on for future proposals: How will we measure what impact our framework or products will have on the world? 
If I would make a suggestion, I would just include some links on where the community could follow the development progress (I’m assuming it will be the official website or their official twitter channel) and communicate directly with the proposing team. It would also be nice to see if the proposer aims to include the community in providing feedback and if so, to what extent (and where). 

Conclusively, due to the reasons listed above: I agree that this proposal provides me with sufficient information to assess the progress in attaining its stated goals.

Based on the information provided in the proposal, I think that this proposal is mostly auditable by the Cardano community. The proposers mentioned that they will have a document or deliverable for each of their 4 phases. Phase 1 will deliver a method to derive impact measures adapted for SPOs in Cardano. Phase 2 will deliver the requirements for the impact dashboard. Phase 3 will deliver the PoC testing the feasibility of the general proposal. Lastly, phase 4 will deliver a report on the PoC from both the technical and user-engagement perspectives after 2 months of the dashboard’s launch.

Success for the metrics that will be used on the stake pools will be met if the measures/standards cover at least 50% of all stake pools, divided between the pools with social and environmental objectives. Success for the impact dashboard will be met if 20% of impact stakers use the dashboard to check their impact data. Both of these metrics of success are very good because they provide a concrete comparison number that the Cardano community can use to see if the proposal was successful.

The overarching goals of this proposal are to increase the interest in mission-driven stake pools and promote the development of SPOs that provide more impact-driven ROI. These goals are something that will definitely be trackable by the community and are also worthy goals to pursue.

My only critique of the proposal is that they did not mention how they will share out progress checks or documentation with the community. Is there a website that can be used? A GitHub page for the code? I see a GitHub page was linked, so I can guess that is where the information will be published, but explicitly stating that in the proposal would have helped me more easily make that connection.

I did not have any other critiques of this proposal’s auditability, except for the lack of mentioning where the information will be published, so I can give this proposal a score of 4 for auditability. (score given: 4)

The team provides extensive information on the development process. This information in combination with regular updates/documentation allows relatively easy audit by the community.

The team has a clear vision what success looks like. Their idea fits the challenge setting.

1 – roadmap w/ milestones: Because the project does not explode macro tasks into smaller tasks with “deliverables”, it is complex to audit. This is due to not knowing when these details will be made and delivered/shown to the public.

2 – Metrics and KPI:Metrics and KPI are well related to the PoC development and they are consistent to know if the development is going well or if they should change the strategy.

3 – Channel:A channel through which information can be shared was not explained. It would be interesting to let members of the cardano community participate in the development of metrics (in addition to the SPO).

In regards to tracking project progress the team outline the intention to document the different stages of the proposal delivery. This includes the first stage of the impact measures that need to be defined. This will be an important thing to document and showcase to the community as it will help to reveal some of the issues faced in trying to measure impact by defining what could be measured and any difficulties in tracking and extracting that data. The team also outline how they would intend to track the usage of the dashboard by SPOs. Success for this project is helping to identify the impact based SPOs in the ecosystem and start to help with creating benchmarks in which to compare and improve the impact being delivered. Given the evidence of previous execution with impactscope, the github source provided and the plan outlined it appears that this proposal should be auditable for the community and the intentions of the proposal have sufficient clarity.