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We partner with other research organizations and frontline implementation organizations to generate evidence on program effectiveness and insights into why they are effectives through randomized evaluations and to test the relevance and limits of theoretical frameworks informing policy through field experiments. We also work closely with governments, donors, NGOs, socially oriented enterprises, and frontline communities to scale-up and replicate effective programs.
Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab at MIT
Started in June 2003 by Professors Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo, and Sendhil Mullainathan at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and renamed in honor of Abdul Latif Jameel in October 2005. The Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab serves as a focal point for development and poverty research based on randomized trials. The objective is to improve the effectiveness of poverty programs by providing policy makers with clear scientific results that help shape successful policies to combat poverty. The Lab works with NGOs, international organizations, and others to evaluate programs and disseminate the results of high quality research. We work on issues as diverse as boosting girls' attendance at school, improving the output of farmers in sub-Saharan Africa, racial bias in employment in the US, and the role of women political leaders in India.
http://www.povertyactionlab.org/ |
Caja Municipal de Ahorro y Credito de Ica S.A.
The Caja Municipal de Ahorro y Credito de Ica (CMAC Ica) is a municipal savings and loan bank founded in 1987 and supervised by the Peruvian Banking and Securities Superintendent's Office. Originally designed to serve the department of Ica, CMAC Ica has expanded to 13 agencies in the departments of Ica, Ayacucho and Lima and currently serves more than 25,000 borrowers and 20,000 savings account holders. CMAC Ica's mission is to offer families, small and micro businesses the services that meet their financial needs. CMAC Ica is dedicated to offering improved access, high quality products, and flexible requirements that will accelerate client and community development.
http://www.cmacica.com.pe/ |
Caja Nacional del Sureste
Caja Nacional del Sureste is a financial organization located in the southeast of Mexico. Founded in 2000, it has expanded rapidly to 28 branches, primarily in the state of Oaxaca. Its mission is to provide quality financial services to its members through savings and credit products. Caja Nacional del Sureste has also recently started promoting Group Credit, Life Insurance, Remittance Services, Express Bill Payments and Business Loans.
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Catholic Relief Services
Catholic Relief Services was founded in 1943 by the Catholic Bishops of the United States. Our mission is to assist the poor and disadvantaged, leveraging the teachings of the Gospel of Jesus Christ to alleviate human suffering, promote development of all people and to foster charity and justice throughout the world. Working through local offices and an extensive network of partners, CRS operates on 5 continents and in 99 countries. We aid the poor by first providing direct assistance where needed, then encouraging these people to help with their own development. Together, this fosters secure, productive, just communities that enable people to realize their potential. As the official international relief and development agency of the US Catholic community, CRS is also committed to educating the people of the United States to fulfill their moral responsibilities toward our global brothers and sisters by helping the poor, working to remove the causes of poverty, and promoting social justice.
http://www.crs.org/ |
Compartamos
Compartamos Banco offers microcredit and other financial products in all 31 Mexican states, focusing primarily on a village banking methodology. They create development opportunities in popular market segments that are distributed on a massive scale and based on innovative and efficient models as well as on important values that foster external and internal culture.
http://www.compartamos.com |
Consorcio de Organizaciones Privadas de Promoción al Desarrollo de la Micro y Pequeña Empresa (COPEME)
COPEME, the Consortium of Private Organizations to Promote the Development of Small and Micro Enterprises (Consorcio de Organizaciones Privadas de Promoción al Desarrollo de la Pequeña y Microempresa), is a non profit association dedicated to promote the development of micro and small enterprises in Peru, created in July 1990. It groups together more than 60 institutions, 40 of them credit NGOs or NGOs with credit programs in urban and rural poverty areas. Many of COPEME affiliates have promoted regulated micro finance institutions, mainly Edpymes (financial enterprises for the development of SMEs). The Microfinance Initiative (IM), COPEME's strengthening program for MFIs, started in March 1998 through an agreement with ADEX-USAID/MSP's micro and small producer support program, prioritizing MFIs in poverty areas but not limited to COPEME's affiliated credit NGOs. The IM was later on extended through successive direct agreements between COPEME and USAID, the last of them currently outstanding until September 2006, from where IM will fully rely on its own income and other donors.
http://www.copeme.org.pe/ |
Decentralization Secretariat, Sierra Leone
The Decentralization Secretariat (DecSec) of the Government of Sierra Leone was established under the Institutional Reform and Capacity Building Project (IRCBP), funded by the World Bank. DecSec's objective is to support the establishment of a functioning, transparent local government system. DecSec's mandate includes:
* further developing a decentralization policy and designing a decentralization program for implementation
* coordinating the development of a coherent and consistent legal and regulatory framework for Sierra Leone's decentralized system of governance
* coordinating the development and implementation of sector devolution plans
* collaborating with the Ministry of Finance in the development of a fiscal decentralization strategy
* monitoring, documenting and evaluating the decentralization process and providing regular reports to the inter-ministerial committee and other stakeholders
http://www.ircbp.sl/ |
FINCA Peru
Finca Peru is a nongovernmental microfinance organization which operates in the Peruvian regions of Ayachuco, Lima, and Huancavelica. Founded in 1993, its mission is to contribute to the self-valuation of the women with economic and social disadvantages in Peru, facilitating the integral development of their human capacities. They promote the development of their entrepreneurial spirit and the strengthening of their social discipline and the daily practices of equity, solidarity, respect, responsibility and honesty values. In addition to their credit and savings programs, they provide training on subjects such as the use of credit, development of entrepreneurial skills, and the improvement of self-esteem, social discipline, values, women rights and health awareness.
http://www.fincaperu.net/es/ |
GRADE
The Group for the Analysis of Development (GRADE) is a private, non-profit, non-political research center. Its mission is to conduct applied research to stimulate and enrich the debate, design and implementation of public policies. Since its founding in 1980 in Lima, Peru, GRADE has devoted itself to the study of economic, educational, environmental and social topics, in areas relevant to the development of Peru and other Latin American countries. The institution seeks to make known the results of its work among those responsible for formulating policy and the general public. To fully comply with the institutional mission, those who work in GRADE do rigorous academic research, with a high degree of objectivity. This ensures that their conclusions about the nature and causes of economic and social processes are substantiated by solid empirical data. Although not an institution that actively defends specific policies, GRADE has fortified its communication channels to reach a broad public. Results of research done by GRADE are disseminated by different means so as to guarantee their application in policy design and implementation.
http://www.grade.org.pe/ |
Grameen Trust Chiapas
Grameen Trust Chiapas was founded in 1997 with the objective of helping to alleviate poverty in one of the most affected regions of Mexico. The first Grameen replication in Chiapas, its principal activity is microcredit, and it serves marginalized urban and rural communities throughout the region with 17 branch offices. The mission of Grameen Trust Chiapas is to develop programs directed at permanently improving the well-being of families of lesser resources, principally enterprising women, through programs of loans, savings, insurance, and social assistance.
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Green Bank of Caraga
The Green Bank of Caraga is a large rural bank with operations in Northern Mindanao and Visayas, Philippines. Through a microfinance unit established in 1999, Green Bank loans capital to poor rural and semi-urban micro-entrepreneurs. Loans are offered through two programs: BULAK, a group-liability lending program for micro-entrepreneurial women in rural villages; and TREES, an individual-liability lending program for micro-entrepreneurs in semi-urban areas.
http://www.greenbank.com.ph/ |
ICS Africa
International Child Support Africa's (ICS Africa) mission is "to improve the education and health of poor children in Africa through development intervention, research, and advocacy". They implement integrated programs for child health in close cooperation with public schools in Kenya and Tanzania. These programs include, for example, toilet construction, providing access to safe water, school health clubs, and training of school committees and teacher.
http://www.icsafrica.org/ |
Instituto Poblano para la Productividad Competitiva (IPPC)
IPPC, the Institute for the Competitiveness and Productivity of Puebla, is an independent Mexican government agency founded in 2005 whose mission is to promote the growth and development of micro-, small- and medium-sized enterprises. To achieve this mission, the MSME experts at IPPC use different tools and methodologies to conduct business training and individual and group consulting. These programs are directed towards established businesses, young entrepreneurs and start-ups.
http://www.ippc.org.mx |
Office of Population Studies (OPS), University of San Carlos, Philippines
The Office of Population Studies (OPS) was founded in 1971 by Dr. Wilhelm Flieger, a demographer trained at the University of Chicago. Since then, OPS has contributed to the development initiatives in the Visayas region and the Philippines by training researchers and conducting researches in the areas of demography, health and nutrition, environment, gender and other socioeconomic issues. OPS promotes research of government programs and advocates better knowledge on population-related concerns have been funded by foreign and international agencies, such as USAID, UNFPA, World Bank, and Asian Development Bank.
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Pratham
Pratham is a large Indian organization dedicated to improving the quality of elementary education in India. Established in Mumbai in 1994 with support from UNICEF, Pratham has since expanded to urban and rural areas in 13 Indian states, and reaches about 200,000 children a year. Pratham programs now include Read India, a program that uses local volunteers to give basic reading instruction to children in the community and helps communities build a supply of books for circulation among children. The purpose of the program is to strengthen children's reading skills and to foster a culture of learning through self-study. Read India has reached over 160,000 children since late 2002. Pratham recently established the Pratham Resource Center, which formalized Pratham's role as a research and assessment hub for education in India. Through the Center, Pratham undertakes key educational research and assessment tasks for various organizations and state governments. For example, they run state-wide reading assessments in several states, including Bihar and Maharastra.
http://www.pratham.org/ |
PRIDE Africa
The PRIDE AFRICA Group is a network of micro-finance institutions (MFIs), with regional headquarters in Nairobi, Kenya. PRIDE currently operates in Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Malawi and Zambia, providing credit to over 80,000 micro-entrepreneurs. The PRIDE Group represents the largest client outreach in the East and South African region.
http://www.drumnet.org/ |
PRISMA
PRISMA is Peruvian NGO that is dedicated to strengthening the resources of the poor and other vulnerable groups so that they themselves can achieve economic and social development. PRISMA has programs throughout Peru addressing many different aspects of development, including health and nutrition, agriculture, the environment, and local government. They boast a large and successful microfinance department operating in 11 different regions of the country. They have three main loan programs: village banks, individual loans in the alternative development zone of Peru, and individual agricultural loans in Northern Peru. 80 percent of PRISMA clients live in rural areas.
www.prisma.org.pe |
Pro Mujer
Pro Mujer is a Latin American NGO founded in Bolivia in 1990, which currently operates in five countries. Its mission is to provide Latin America’s poorest women with the means to build livelihoods for themselves and futures for their families through micro lending, business training, and healthcare support. Pro Mujer in Bolivia uses group liability lending based on the Grameen model. They have carved out a niche in the highly competitive market in Bolivia as the lender that reaches the most marginalized women. Their clients are typically migrants from the rural areas to the neighborhoods surrounding major cities such as La Paz. They have established close to 3,000 communal banks serving over 50,000 active borrowers with a combined portfolio of over $5.3M.
www.promujer.org |
Research Institute for Mindanao Culture (RIMCU), Xavier University
Founded in 1957 by Rev. Dr. Francis C. Madigan, RIMCU has developed into the largest research unit at Xavier University. RIMCU research focuses on social and economic development in Mindanao and other regions in the Philippines. The institution is funded by government agencies and private organizations and has extensive researches in the fields of demography, anthropology, economics, history, and political science. Through researches and consultancy, RIMCU works for a better life and richer culture for all people in Mindanao.
http://www.xu.edu.ph/rimcu/ |
Seva Mandir
Seva Mandir is a non-government voluntary organization working on rural and tribal development issues in and around Udaipur district, in the southern part of Rajasthan (western India). It has a presence in over 583 villages and its work focuses on the following:
* Strengthening sustainable livelihoods of village communities
* Capacity building to achieve well-being in terms of health, education and gender equal relations
* Creating autonomous village level institutions and supporting organic leadership
Seva Mandir seeks to construct the conditions for which citizens of plural backgrounds and perspectives can come together and deliberate on how they can work best to benefit and empower the least advantaged in society.
http://www.sevamandir.org |
Statistics Sierra Leone
Statistics Sierra Leone (SSL) is the central statistical authority for the Government of Sierra Leone, mandated to provide high quality data to the Government and the wider national and international community. Recent work includes a detailed national income and expenditure survey, a national census, and numerous surveys covering health, education, HIV/AIDS and experiences during the recent civil war.
http://www.statistics-sierra-leone.org |
The Centre for Micro Finance
The mission of The Centre for Micro Finance (CMF) is to improve the life of the poor by: 1) Systematically researching the links between access to financial services and the participation of the poor in the larger economy and 2) Participating in maximizing access to financial services and its impact for the poor through: Research on micro finance and livelihood financing; Research-based policy advocacy; High-level training for practitioners and institutions; Strategy and capacity-building for Micro Finance Institutions. The Centre for Micro Finance aims to catalyze and implement empirical research on the following issues: impact of access to financial services; contract and product designs; constraints to household productivity; combination of microfinance and other development interventions; cost and profitability of microfinance institutions (MFIs); people’s behavior with respect to financial services; economics of micro-enterprises; effect of regulations.
http://ifmr.ac.in/cmf/ |
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