Julie Peachey, director of Grameen Foundation's social performance team, discusses future directions for the Progress out of Poverty Index, a tool that helps organizations measure and track poverty levels in the communities they serve.
Grameen Foundation in the News
06/30/2015
Whitney Gantt, Grameen Foundation's global director for mobile agriculture, discusses our plans to help smallholder coconut farmers in the Philippines become more resilient and economically secure. (This piece is adapted from an article that first appeared in Devex.)
06/29/2015
Suzanne Skees of the Skees Foundation writes about how women in poor communities in Ghana, Uganda and Zambia are using Grameen Foundation apps and services to improve their lives.
06/17/2015
This article cites a Grameen Foundation paper that recommends several approaches for expanding the use of mobile money in Nigeria.
06/11/2015
Christopher Tan, Grameen Foundation's regional CEO for Asia, discusses how providing financial services and information via mobile phones can help smallholder coconut farmers in the Philippines become more resilient and economically secure.
06/11/2015
Grameen Foundation board member explains why technology should be used to amplify, rather than replace, human forces.
06/11/2015
Grameen Foundation discuss regulatory issues that must be addressed to push mobile microfinance forward and the next big opportunity for mobile network operators, third-party platform providers and financial institutions. This is the eight and final post in our Next Billion series on what it takes for institutions that provide microfinance services to go digital.
06/01/2015
Between 2008 and 2013, Grameen Foundation helped CARD Bank to open 480,000 new savings accounts through its microsavings initiative. In this article, Julie Peachey, director of Grameen Foundation's social peformance management team, discusses the findings of a study designed to improve savings habits of these new clients through behavioral science. The study was conducted by ideas42.
05/29/2015
Speaking at the 2015 Social Business Day in Bangladesh, Alex Counts noted that many countries are still keen to adopt microcredit and social business, in spite of recent attacks on impact.
05/26/2015
Grameen Foundation's global director of financial services, Lisa Kienzle, is featured in a Guardian round-up of key points from its online Q&A on building financial systems in the global south. She highlights the need for alternative forms of ID to bring poorer people into the system.
05/25/2015
Airtel Uganda won an ICT Development Award at the Uganda Communications Commission's annual awards ceremony for Airtel Weza, which was developed with Grameen Foundation and Plan Uganda.
05/21/2015
Lisa Kienzle, Grameen Foundation's global director of financial services, joined panelists from the Asian Development Bank, Care International UK, the Inter-American Development Bank and the MasterCard Foundation to discuss what policymakers, regulators, NGOs and the private sector can do encourage building banks that are secure, transparent, and work for low-income consumers. The discussion is in the comment section.
05/21/2015
Though many microfinance institutions (MFIs) operate in impoverished areas, they often have little or no objective poverty data on the clients they have reached. Grameen Foundation discusses how institutions can integrate the Progress out of Poverty Index® (PPI®) into their roll-out of digital financial services. This is the seventh post in our Next Billion series on what it takes for institutions that provide microfinance services to go digital.
05/15/2015
Grameen Foundation discusses the importance of change management and working closely with employees when financial institutions adopt mobile microfinance services. This is the sixth post in our Next Billion series on what it takes for institutions that provide microfinance services to go digital.
05/08/2015
David Hutchful, director of innovations, explains how Grameen Foundation is using technology to help improve health care for pregnant women and mothers of infants in Ghana. (His interview begins at 20:16.)