PPI Blog

Editor's note: This post originally appeared on the Impact Management Project blog.

A blog post that I recently read about concepts in ICT for Development (ICT4D) introduced me to the German word ‘Eierlegendewollmilchsau’.  Despite having a father who immigrated to the US from Germany and learning German in high school, I had never heard that word before. The idea of an “egg-laying wool-milk-sow” soon made me think of all the things that international development practitioners want a measurement tool to do for them. They want an ‘all-in-one’.

Editor's note: This post, authored by Amrik Cooper of SurveyCTO, originally appeared on the SurveyCTO blog.

We are pleased to announce our first pre-built SurveyCTO form, in collaboration with Innovations for Poverty Action (IPA).

An interview with Samuel Beecher, Research Officer, Catholic Relief Services

Catholic Relief Services (CRS), founded in 1943 by the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, seeks to preserve and uphold the sacredness and dignity of all human life, foster charity and justice, and embody Catholic social and moral teachings to promote human development in the United States and abroad.

In partnership with the MasterCard Foundation (MCF), CRS started the Expanding Financial Inclusion (EFI) in Africa program in 2014. To this end, the project aims to create 19,200 new Savings and Internal Lending Communities (SILC) groups with 502,320 members using the Private Service Provider (PSP) methodology in four countries in Africa—Burkina Faso, Senegal, Uganda, and Zambia—by September of 2017. The goal of EFI is to expand financial service access to vulnerable households to improve their resilience. EFI’s monitoring and evaluation team uses the PPI to measure the depth of poverty outreach among SILC group members and comparison households in the community.

An interview with Manfred Borer, Swisscontact

Swisscontact is a business-oriented foundation for international development cooperation. Working in 34 countries with over 1,200 team members, we have been fostering economic, social, and environmental development since 1959.