Ways You Can Commit
Looking for ways you can commit to helping 100 million families lift themselves out of severe poverty?
Below is a list of commitment suggestions the Campaign has received. The ideas below are organized by Council and within each Council by the Campaign's four core themes. One of the suggestions below might fit within your institution’s strategy, or if something on the list inspires a new idea – share it with the Campaign!
Council of PRACTITIONERS
Reaching the Poorest*
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Commit to using a poverty measurement tool, such as those listed here, on a representative sample of your (incoming) clients this year.
Reaching & Empowering Women
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Commit to reaching a minimum of 80% of your clients who are women.
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Commit to reaching a minimum of 35% of your clients who are women and poorest.
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Commit to integrating financial capabilities training into your product and service delivery strategies.
Building Financial Self-Sustainability
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Commit to conducting a product assessment study to determine if your products are meeting client demands and make adjustments to your products accordingly.
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Commit to using a “client-centric” model for developing products, services, and delivery channels.
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Commit to implementing a health integration module as part of your product and service delivery strategy.
Ensuring Positive & Measureable Outcomes
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Commit to implementing a multi-year program to track poverty movement of a representative sample of your clients.
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Commit to being assessed for the Pro-Poor Seal of Excellence and learning from the findings.
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Commit to achieving a specific percentage of your network members using the PPI annually to measure both client level poverty and client poverty level changes over time.
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Commit to sharing best practices and your institution’s learning from the field at national, regional, and global events such as Network conferences and Microcredit Summits.
Council of ADVOCATES & SUPPORT ORGANIZATIONS
Reaching the Poorest*
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Commit to educating regulators in your country on the Pro-Poor Seal of Excellence, and how it is contributing to ensuring positive outcomes for microfinance clients and their families.
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Commit to attending an upcoming Summit to learn more about how a holistic approach to development leads to the best results for clients (details on our 2013 Summit will be published shortly; sign up for our newsletter to make sure you receive updates!)
Reaching & Empowering Women
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Send us your suggestions for how you as an Advocate or a Support Organization can commit to helping institutions better reach and empower women!
Building Financial Self-Sustainability
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Send us your suggestions for how you as an Advocate or a Support Organization can commit to helping institutions build greater financial self-sustainability!
Ensuring Positive & Measureable Outcomes
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Commit to learning more about the 100 Million Project, the Pro-Poor Seal of Excellence, and the Health and Microfinance Alliance and finding ways to incorporate those learning into your institution.
Council of FUNDERS & INVESTORS
Reaching the Poorest*
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As an investor, commit to increasing the proportion of your investee portfolio that use poverty benchmarking tools such as these to determine their institutional poverty down reach.
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As an investor, commit to a specific number of your investees who meet the Client Protection Principles, the Universal Standards for Social Performance, and/or are awarded the Seal of Excellence for Poverty Outreach.
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Commit to provide funding to pursue areas of the 100 Million Project’s Global Learning Agenda.
Reaching & Empowering Women
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Commit to reaching a specific proportion of your investee portfolio who have reached an agreed upon minimum percentage of their clients who are women.
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Commit to reaching a specific proportion of your investee portfolio who have reached an agreed upon minimum percentage of their clients who are women and poorest.
Building Financial Self-Sustainability
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Commit to providing funding for technical assistance support or innovation grants to investees who wish to implement practices to better reach social performance goals.
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Commit to provide support for client preference research to help institutions better match their products and services to client needs.
Ensuring Positive & Measureable Outcomes
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As an investor, commit to increasing the proportion of your investee portfolio that use poverty benchmarking tools such as these to determine their institutional poverty down reach.
Council of POLICY MAKERS
Reaching the Poorest*
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Develop an incentives program to support practitioners who use poverty benchmarking tools such as those listed here to determine their institutional down reach.
Reaching & Empowering Women
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Develop an incentives program to support practitioners who have reached a specific proportion of clients who are women.
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Develop an incentives program to support practitioners who have reached a specific proportion of clients who are women and poorest.
Building Financial Self-Sustainability
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Commit to providing funding for innovation grants and technical assistance for practitioners who are seeking to implement programs to improve social performance.
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Commit to developing specific criteria within a regulatory framework that reinforce the Client Protection Principles and the Universal Standards for Social Protection.
Ensuring Positive & Measureable Outcomes
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Commit to regularly conducting national-level poverty surveys and making the results publicly available in a timely manner (specific timelines should be developed).
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Commit to dedicating resources to support social safety-net providers (such as those in the health sector, asset transfers conditional cash transfer programs, etc.) and developing means to connect these providers to microfinance practitioners and their clients.
Council of RESEARCHERS & ACADEMIC INSTITUTIONS
Reaching the Poorest*
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Develop a research program to evaluate practices that best facilitate reaching the poorest and facilitating client movement out of poverty.
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Develop socioeconomic characterization studies in order to design products and/or strategies to facilitate client movement out of poverty or vulnerability reduction.
Reaching & Empowering Women
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Develop a research agenda to evaluate practices that best facilitate reaching and empowering women clients.
Building Financial Self-Sustainability
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Develop a research agenda to identify a replicable process for using client-level data, including poverty level, to better manage products and services.
Ensuring Positive & Measureable Outcomes
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Develop a research agenda to evaluate poverty benchmarking tools and identify strategies for best utilizing these to improve social performance among practitioners.
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Develop a research program to better understand intergenerational aspects of poverty such as outcomes in the lives of client’s children.
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Develop a research program to evaluate the differences in reported poverty outreach among practitioners using a poverty benchmarking tool and those practitioners that do not use measurement tools.
*The Campaign defines “poorest” as those living on less than US$1.25 per day (PPP) or those among the bottom 50% of those living below their national poverty line.
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