Review of UN Country Teams Engagement
The purpose of this review is to assess how effective the involvement of United Nations agencies, collectively and individually, has been in the Poverty Reduction Strategy processes.
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The purpose of this review is to assess how effective the involvement of United Nations agencies, collectively and individually, has been in the Poverty Reduction Strategy processes.
CGAP has contracted the IDS to develop several simple indicators based on the Afghan context, that will report on what degree MFIs serve poor people and access to basic health care services.
Published by: World Bank
The Study Context The international aid system faces real dilemmas and remains ill-equipped to respond to the peculiar challenges of...
Supporting a global network of partners working to mainstream social protection in development policy and encouraging social protection systems and instruments that are comprehensive, long-term, sustainable and pro-poor.
Prepared for the DAC Fragile States Group Service Delivery Workstream Sub-Team for Education Services
Published by: IDS
This paper concerns the potential for microfinance to make a difference in achievement of the Millennium Development Goals. It recognises that microfinance can contribute to several MDGs but that to do so in ways that make a real difference would involve a significant scaling-up of microfinance service provision.
Published by: Intermediate Technology Publications
How far are microfinance institutions around the world contributing to global poverty reduction and what can they do to improve on this performance? This book presents the findings of a five-year action research programme into how far poverty-oriented microfinance institutions (MFIs) in Africa, Asia, and Latin America are contributing to global poverty reduction, and how they can do so more effectively.
This book reflects the implications of a social performance management agenda for the perspective of twelve partners from Asia, Africa, Latin America and Europe, who participated in a five-year microfinance action-research programme known as Imp-Act. It features contributions from MFI staff who worked with Imp-Act directly, as well as from members of Imp-Act's academic team, who worked closely with the partners.
This project sought to understand how eight development initiatives achieved success in the extremely difficult conditions found in ‘fragile states', or what the World Bank calls ‘low income countries under stress (LICUS)'