Distributor Organizations: Total (PI1060)

This metric is intended to capture how many organizations sold the organization's products or services during the reporting period, either to other distributors (wholesale) or to ultimate consumers (retail). Distributors counted under this metric need not exclusively sell the organization’s products or services.

Organizations wishing to report on individuals who are distributors should instead use Distributor Individuals: Total (PI2758) and its associated submetrics.

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.