Social Return on Investment - Doing More with Less: Evidence Based Operational Research on the KHANA Integrated Care and Prevention Project in Cambodia

The Social Return on Investment(SROI) method is a form of cost benefit analysis to monetize project outcomes. It has been adapted and simplified for the community level with the incorporation of social, health, environmental and economic costs and benefits enabling the calculation of a ratio of cost to benefit. This is an appropriate approach, in line with the current donors’ growing emphasis on cost efficiency and effectiveness and the Paris declaration on aid effectiveness - demonstrating value for money, “doing more with less”.