The Progress Out of Poverty conducts a Q&A session with the GIIN's Katy Lankester. Katy discusses IRIS and the Progress out of Poverty Index.

"The Impact Reporting and Investment Standards, or IRIS, is a common language for describing the social, environmental, and financial performance of mission-driven businesses. IRIS is intended to reduce fragmentation in investors' efforts to measure impact, efforts which have historically relied on proprietary measurement systems or anecdotes alone."