The issue of demonstrating impact was another cause for concern among panellists.
The clearest way to demonstrate impact is by translating data into something donors want to read and listen to.
A charity that is failing to demonstrate impact may find it difficult to source funding, for example.
More than ever, those donors expect the groups to demonstrate impact before they write checks.
"Companies in general have struggled to demonstrate impact, but [the SDGs] will enable the corporate community to align towards a common way of talking about impact," she said.
The policymaking process is far more complicated than the impact debate often assumes, and our understanding of how to demonstrate impact remains in its infancy.
Unless the charity is able to demonstrate impact, it will not be achieving its objects and is unlikely to receive future funding.
Even NGOs – the traditional corrective agents of government or market failures – are experiencing greater scrutiny to demonstrate impact around the causes they advocate for and claim to be solving.
Access to solutions in agriculture are demonstrating impact on operations, leading to direct impact on household incomes.
These programmes also do not explicitly link their specific activities to their intended outcomes, making demonstrating impact impossible.
