Number of enterprise clients that were served by the organization and provided access, during the reporting period, to products/services they were unable to access prior to the reporting period.
For further clarification, organizations should reference New Access to Water, New Access to Energy, New Access to Education, New Access to Finance, or New Access to Healthcare in the glossary.
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).
This metric is intended to capture the number of unique client organizations (enterprises) of the reporting organization that gained new access to products and services during the reporting period that they could not otherwise access prior to the reporting period. Organizations are encouraged to footnote details of how they expanded access to products and services.
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.
This is a submetric of Client Organizations: Total (PI9652), which has 5 other related submetrics.
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).
June 2022 - IRIS v5.3 Released (current version)
Immaterial change. Minor revisions to definition and usage guidance for clarity.
January 2020 - IRIS v5.1 Released
No change.
May 2019 - IRIS v5.0 Released
No change.
March 2016 - IRIS v4.0 Released
No change.
March 2014 - IRIS v3.0 Released
Immaterial change. Minor revision to metric name and definition language for clarity.
November 2011 - IRIS v2.2 Released
Immaterial change. Client Organizations Provided New Access (PI2575) replaced Clients Provided New Access - Business (PI2575). Metric name changed to maintain consistency with other aspects of IRIS structure.
February 2011 - IRIS v2.1 Released
No change.
September 2010 - IRIS v2.0 Released
Material change. Clients Provided New Access - Business (PI2575) replaced New Access to Energy: Businesses (EE13). Metric modified to increase clarity.
September 2009 - IRIS v1.0 Released
New metric. New Access to Energy - Businesses (EE13) was developed via the Original IRIS Working Group.
IRIS Metrics Work Better in Sets
To use IRIS metrics—and the resulting data—to understand impact performance, IRIS metrics should be used and analyzed in generally accepted sets and according to well-defined objectives. IRIS+ gives you access to generally accepted Core Metrics Sets aligned to common Impact Themes and Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).