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Beirut - May 2009

Sanabel 6 th Annual Conference. Beirut - May 2009. The Human Impact: Measuring Changes in Clients’ Lives. Jeff Toohig. Deputy Director, PPI Deployment. Grameen Foundation on Behalf of Grameen Jameel.

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Beirut - May 2009

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  1. Sanabel 6th Annual Conference Beirut - May 2009 The Human Impact: Measuring Changes in Clients’ Lives Jeff Toohig Deputy Director, PPI Deployment Grameen Foundation on Behalf of Grameen Jameel

  2. 1. Social Performance Management2. What’s the Progress out of Poverty Index?3. What does PPI Data look like?4. How can PPI data be used?

  3. Social Performance Management

  4. Grameen Foundation mission: to enable the poor, especially the poorest, to create a world without poverty To get there, we must Help our partners achieve social goals Promote transparency and accountability Measure what we value Our Perspective on SPM

  5. Progress Out of Poverty Index™ (PPI) An objective client poverty assessment and targeting tool, which: • Provides social performance data • Enables MFIs to manage social performance An inexpensive and easy to collect scorecard • Derived from representative national household income and expenditure surveys • Comprised of simple, non-financial indicators

  6. PPI within SPM Context • By tracking poverty levels against other client data, make key decisions about mission and how to carry it out • Managing social performance is based on • 1) setting clear social goals and objectives • 2) collecting information to monitor progress towards these objectives • 3) using information to improve operational and strategic decision-making. • Part of a social performance management system that helps advance an the mission.

  7. Understand poverty levels of clients… …And change in those levels Measure outreach Use poverty level data to improve products and services Objectives of PPI Use

  8. What does the PPI look like? SAMPLE

  9. PPI in Action

  10. PPI Fundamentals: Basic use Indicators Client Response Points 8 0

  11. PPI Fundamentals: PPI score 8 0 4 5 6 0 3 0 0 5 31

  12. PPI Fundamentals: Poverty likelihood The client interviewed has a 78% likelihood of falling below the national poverty line and a 22% likelihood of being above it. PPI score of 31 Poverty Likelihood

  13. PPI Summary • Easy-to-use, inexpensive, transparent, objective • Estimate likelihood that a household is poor: • Scores work for targeting • Average all clients for portfolio poverty rate • Track over time for progress out of poverty • Practicality and accuracy • One page, few indicators, simple (whole number) scores • Work in the field on paper in real time (no software required) • Valid for any program serving the poor, not just microfinance

  14. How are PPI data used?

  15. PPI Case Study: ESAF ESAF operates within, Kerala, Maharashtra, Madhyapradesh Jharkhand, and Chattisgarh, with 96 branches and 241,788 clients. Initial Findings Results of Below $1.25/Day/PPP ESAF Rural Kerala households: 39.7% Compared to: Average for all rural Kerala households: 34.1%

  16. PPI Case Study: Fonkoze

  17. Rural Vs Urban

  18. Age and Poverty

  19. PPI Case Study: NWTF • NWTF in the Philippines • PPI collected in all branches, every client • Collects additional indicators to refines outreach and products and services • Compares data by branch to understand what products and services are most effective • Outcomes • Changed targets to admit 90% below poverty line new clients • Adjusted loan size, loan cycle period and possible pre-payment options

  20. Data Use and Future Opportunities • Link Social and Financial performance assessment • Demonstrate ‘blended’ results to donors and investors • Market to Social Investors • Disseminate results at all internal levels • Disseminate results to the industry • Potential staff incentives input

  21. www.ProgressoutofPoverty.org

  22. Progress Out of Poverty Index™

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