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Transforming Intention into Practice: Global Partnerships’ Learnings in Poverty Measurement  >
Global Partnerships
• 03/22/19
• Posted in social enterprise, PPP poverty lines, investment, poverty outreach, ppi, poverty
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An interview with Tara Murphy Forde, Senior Vice President, Research & Impact, Global Partnerships

Global Partnerships (GP) is an impact-first investor dedicated to expanding opportunity for people living in poverty. At GP, we create and manage funds that make loans and early stage investments in social enterprises that serve people living in poverty throughout Latin America, the Caribbean, and sub-Saharan Africa. Five years ago, we spun out our Research and Impact Team to strategically define, measure, and strengthen the impact of our investments. As part of this effort, we developed a poverty measurement methodology that helps us understand whether our investments are reaching those we aim to serve.

Today we use poverty data to screen, select, and monitor the outreach of our social enterprise partners and our analysis informs our investment decisions; not only whether to invest, but on what terms. We continue to iterate and strengthen our approach, but there have been some key steps and learnings along the way, which I will attempt to distill here in the event they are of service to others embarking on a similar pursuit.

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Poverty Measurement Made Simple >
Julie Peachey
• 04/09/18
• Posted in measurement, sdgs, sustainable development goals, poverty
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Editor's note: This post originally appeared on the American Evaluation Association's AEA365 blog.

It’s no surprise to me that the first Sustainable Development Goal is “End Poverty in all its forms everywhere’’ as so much of our international development work is designed with this objective in mind.  But how does an organization – social enterprise, NGO, corporation, impact investor – understand and report its contribution to this goal?

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From Chocolate to Coffee: Addressing Poverty Along the Supply Chain >
megan_kashner
• 12/07/16
• Posted in poverty, agriculture, microfinance
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Responsibly sourced… Fair trade… Supporting local farmers… These increasingly abundant and familiar labels signal to consumers the social, environmental, and other beneficial impacts promised by the products we see on store shelves. But how can companies ensure that the purchase of a particular chocolate bar or bag of coffee will lift up the lives and futures of people up and down the supply chain?

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When the Poor Need Information, Mobile Phones Can Be the Right Tool for the Job >
stevewright
• 02/16/12
• Posted in mobile phones, poorest, poverty
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It is important that we take the lessons we have learned from micro-credit and apply them to any new poverty intervention.

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PLAN Chakwal: Using the PPI Beyond Microfinance >
Awais
• 04/01/11
• Posted in Pakistan, Plan International, poverty, ppi
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In the Punjab section of Pakistan, just south of Islamabad, is the district of Chakwal—a focal point for an innovative community development effort based on poverty measurement. Since May 2010, no fewer than 68 villages surrounding Chakwal have been participating in a new initiative to help the poorest among them. The program, Plan Chakwal, supported by microfinance network Plan International, has been leading the way in using the Progress out of Poverty Index (PPI) to guide its community development work.

Led by Shabbir Hussain, Plan Chakwal’s livelihood coordinator, and Aziz Malik, Plan’s community development facilitator, Plan Chakwal over a three-month period (June, July and August, 2010) collected 18,003 PPI scorecards from the 68 villages, using a census approach. Because these villages have local community base organizations (CBOs) to follow through with community development work, they were chosen for PPI data collection.

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PRISMA Microfinance and the PPI: Improving Services for Rural Poor Women >
PreetiWali
• 03/14/11
• Posted in case study, Peru, poverty, ppi, Prisma, social performance
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This blog is also available in Spanish below the English copy.

For three years, PRISMA Microfinance has been using the Progress out of Poverty Index (PPI) to help us reach and serve our poorest clients: rural women.

We began to implement the PPI as a pilot in 2008 in two of our branches, and thanks to that good experience, in 2009 we expanded its use to all of our offices. Our goal was to reach the poorest people, and to monitor if and how their poverty levels changed. To do this, in 2010 we surveyed a sample of customers who were new in 2009, and found that--in one year--2.6 percent of these clients had moved above the national poverty line.

The use of PPI has allowed us to focus our efforts on reaching our target clients (the poor and vulnerable), and explore strategies to improve our services and deepen our efforts to reduce poverty. For us, as a microfinance organization with a social heart, the implementation of the PPI confirms that as a tool it is standardized, valid, comprehensive and flexible.

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Expanding Social Performance Management in Central America >
thomas
• 02/25/11
• Posted in Central America, crs, El Salvador, MISION, networks, poverty, ppi, REDCAMIF, training
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This blog is also available in Spanish below the English copy.

By carrying out the MISION Program of Catholic Relief Services (CRS), REDCAMIF, a Central American Microfinance Network, has helped expand social performance management (SPM) among microfinance institutions (MFIs) affiliated with national networks in the region. During the past four years, 52 MFIs have begun to implement SPM systems in their operations.

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NOTES FROM THE FIELD: PPI Training of Trainers in Central America  >
sergio.correa
• 02/17/11
• Posted in ASOMI, Catholic Relief Services, El Salvador, Latin America, MISION, poverty, ppi, REDCAMIF
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As the new Latin America and Caribbean PPI specialist for Grameen Foundation, I have just completed-- and helped facilitate-- my first Training of Trainers course in San Salvador, El Salvador. During the last few weeks, Mary Jo Kochendorfer and I have been preparing all the materials for the sessions while I learn as much as possible about the PPI.

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PPI Training Marks LAPO’s Latest Social Performance Effort >
bsambe
• 02/15/11
• Posted in Africa, LAPO, microfinance, Nigeria, poverty, ppi, social performance
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Lift Above Poverty Association (LAPO), Microfinance Bank Limited in Nigeria—the largest microfinance institution (MFI) in the country—ended 2010 with a Training of Trainers (ToT) workshop on the use of the Progress out of Poverty Index (PPI).

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Top Ten PPI Challenges: Barriers faced by MFIs >
Awais
• 01/24/11
• Posted in challenges, MFI, microfinance, Plan International, poverty, poverty assessment, social performance, top ten
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As the Regional Microfinance Programme Specialist for Plan International in Asia, I have learned first-hand the top challenges faced by microfinance institutions in accepting—and implementing—the PPI as their poverty assessment tool. My observations led me to create the ten challenges I outline here.

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