Check out these 2 blog posts on measuring poverty: who is using poverty benchmarking tools like the PPI and what is their experience implementing the survey? We invite your reactions and commentary.
Release of Grameen Foundation’s PPI® Global Use Report: Who is Measuring Poverty and How? (http://bit.ly/1eYgT3k)
By guest author Julie Peachey, director of social performance management at Grameen Foundation
Grameen Foundation believes in data-driven performance management and decision making…Today we are releasing our first Global Use Report on the PPI. In this, we name the 200+ organizations that have reported that they are using the PPI. In my opinion, what is most striking about this list is the diversity of approaches being used to help the poor. Some provide financial services, some provide healthcare, and some are multi-national corporations that recognize poverty as a risk in their supply chains, just to name a few examples…
Read more and leave your comments: http://bit.ly/1eYgT3k
Measuring Poverty to Impact Children’s Lives: VisionFund’s Campaign Commitment (http://bit.ly/1krqgAr)
By guest author Refilwe Mokoena, VisionFund’s Progress out of Poverty Index manager
Ensuring our [VisionFund’s] MFIs maintain a poverty focus in their operations has not been without its challenges and we continue to learn from and respond to these key lessons. Our MFIs are currently working to integrate the PPI into operations and find increasingly efficient ways of collecting data, so as to minimize the additional workload on field staff. Similarly, as the PPI becomes part of application forms, VisionFund has had to find innovative ways of manipulating data and correlating poverty information with already existing financial data. All this is aimed at embedding the PPI in the routine activities and systems of each MFI so that data collection, reporting and usage become part of “business as usual” throughout the network…
Read more and leave your comments: http://bit.ly/1krqgAr
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