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Microfinance poverty assessment tool

Zeller, Manfred, Lapenu, Cecile, Sharma, Manohar, Henry, Carla

2003

Overview

The Microfinance Poverty Assessment Tool was developed as a much-needed tool to increase transparency on the depth of outreach of microfinance institutions (MFIs). It is intended to assist donors and investors to integrate a poverty focus into their appraisals and funding of financial institutions through a more precise understanding of the clients served by these institutions. Used in conjunction with an institutional appraisal of financial sustainability, governance, management, staff and systems, a poverty assessment allows for a more holistic understanding of an MFI. The Microfinance Poverty Assessment Tool provides accurate data on the poverty levels of MFI clients relative to people living in the same community. It uses a more standardized, globally applicable, and rigorous set of indicators than those used by conventional microfinance targeting tools. The tool employs principal component analysis to construct a multidimensional poverty index that allows the poverty outreach of MFIs to be compared within and across countries. Originally field tested in four countries on three continents, it has subsequently been applied by microfinance donors and MFI networks in numerous other countries. Although the Microfinance Poverty Assessment Tool was designed for microfinance, the tool can also be used to measure the poverty levels of clients of other development programs. “The survey collects data on internationally standardized indicators, but is adapted–with the staff of MFI–to take into account the local context. The combination of international standardization (allowing for comparison), with local adaptations (allowing for appropriate and useful indicators), is key to the success of the tool.”.\"- Anton Simanowitz, Imp-Act ProgrammeInstitute of Development Studies, University of Sussex, UK

• Publisher: World Bank,World Bank Publications,The World Bank,Washington, DC: World Bank and CGAP
• Subject: ADAPTABILITY / ADAPTATION / AGED / ASSESSING POVERTY / AVERAGE POVERTY / BASIC NEEDS / BENEFICIARIES / CASE STUDIES / CASE STUDY / CGAP / CLIENT HOUSEHOLDS / COMPONENT ANALYSIS / Consultative Group to Assist the Poor / DATA ANALYSIS / DATA COLLECTION / DATA MANAGEMENT / DATA PROCESSING DOCUMENTATION / DESCRIPTIVE STATISTICS / DEVELOPING COUNTRIES / DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTION / DWELLING / ECONOMIC COOPERATION / EXPENDITURE SURVEY / FAMILY STRUCTURE / FIELD TESTING / FINANCIAL SERVICES / FINANCIAL SUSTAINABILITY / FOOD CONSUMPTION PATTERNS / FOOD POLICY RESEARCH / HOUSEHOLD ASSETS / HOUSEHOLD DATA / HOUSEHOLD EXPENDITURE SURVEYS / HOUSEHOLD LEVEL / HOUSEHOLD SCORES / HOUSEHOLD SURVEY DATA / HOUSEHOLD SURVEYS / HUMAN DEVELOPMENT / HUMAN DEVELOPMENT INDEXES ABSOLUTE POVERTY / HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT / IMPLEMENTATION PLAN / IMPLEMENTATION PLANS / INDICATOR ANALYSIS / INTERNATIONAL LABOUR / INTERVIEWER / LOCAL CONDITIONS / LOCAL LEVEL / METHODOLOGY / Microfinance / MICROFINANCE APPRAISAL FORMATS / MICROFINANCE CLIENTS / MICROFINANCE INSTITUTIONS / MICROFINANCE POVERTY ASSESSMENT TOOL / NATIONAL LEVEL / NATIONAL LEVELS / OPERATIONAL AREA / OPERATIONAL AREAS / OPERATIONAL TOOL / PARTICIPATORY APPRAISALS / PARTICIPATORY METHODS / PERFORMANCE CRITERIA / POOR CLIENTS / Poverty / POVERTY ASSESSMENT / POVERTY ASSESSMENT APPROACH / POVERTY COMPARISONS / POVERTY FOCUS / POVERTY GROUP / POVERTY GROUPINGS / POVERTY GROUPS / POVERTY INDEX / POVERTY INDEX VARIABLE / POVERTY INDICATOR / POVERTY INDICATORS / POVERTY LEVEL / POVERTY LEVELS / PROGRAMS / QUESTIONNAIRE BASED MONITORING & EVALUATION / RANDOM SAMPLING / RELATIVE IMPORTANCE / RELATIVE POVERTY / RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT / RESEARCH INSTITUTE / RESEARCH INSTITUTES / RURAL POOR / RURAL POVERTY / SAMPLE SIZE / SAMPLING FRAME / SCREENING / SECONDARY DATA / STATISTICAL ANALYSIS / STATISTICAL DATA / SURVEY DATA / SURVEY QUESTIONNAIRE / TARGETING / TARGETING TOOLS / TIME FRAME / TRAINING ACTIVITIES / TRAINING SCHEDULE / TRANSPARENCY
• ISBN: 9780821356746, 0821356747