Women's Economic Empowerment
Lend With Care (LWC) Assessment Project
This 21-page document is part of the Lendwithcare (LWC) assessment project and focuses on the evaluation of LWC Pakistani partner, the Islamic microfinance institution Akhuwat. The report was prepared by the University of Portsmouth (UoP), partner in the project, after a second wave of a household survey to a sample of Akhuwat clients who have been supported by the LWC crowdfunding platform. This report offers an initial snapshot of how the lives of LWC supported entrepreneurs have changed since they became Akhuwat clients. Read More...
Improving Access to Safe Employment for Migrant Women in Myanmar
Description of the document: This 43-page document evaluates the success of the Safe Employment project. It aimed to provide options for more safe jobs, implement accessible sexual and reproductive health and legal services, reduce sexual and or gender-based violence and increase social support for migrant women. The project operated in the HlaingTharya Township, Yangon and the townships of Pathein Gyi and Aung Myay Tharzan, Mandalay, Myanmar. Read More...
Lend With CARE Akhuwat
This 21 page report highlights findings from the University of Portsmouth on Lendwithcare—a crowdsourced lending platform where individual donors can pick what businesses they want to fund. People who participate in Lendwithcare see higher incomes, a better quality of life, and stronger incomes. The project disbursed 11,300 loans between 2014-2017, with $760,000 in funding from individuals from all over the world. Read More...
ICAM Vietnam Final Report
This 78 page document describes the results of the ICAM project funded by Australian Aid Read More...
Women’s Economic Empowerment Project Final Narrative Report
This 13 page document summarizes the results of the Women Economic Empowerment project funded by H&M... Read More...
Improving Girl’s Access Through Transformation Education (IGATE) Endline Evaluation
This 165 page document reports the results of the IGATE project funded by UK Aid Read More...
VSLA Securing Rights and Improving Livelihoods of Women Kadam Elkhair
This 60 page document reports the results of the Kadam Elkhair Project Read More...
Final evaluation report of kadem el-khair project final
This 60 page document reports the results of the Kadam Elkhair Project Read More...
Grad final evaluation report
This 138 page external evaluation highlights findings from Feed the Future (USAID) GRAD program in E... Read More...
LINK UP Final Project Evaluation
This report focuses on the potential of linkages between formal financial services and savings groups to create change for the savings groups, banks, and households. One of the projects that is involved in this work in LINK Up, a project supported by CARE, Access Africa and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. LINK Up is a 3.5 year project working with savings groups in Tanzania and Kenya.
We use multiple datasets to explore trends over time that can answer the three guiding learning questions embedded in the LINK Up project.
(1) What is the impact of access to formal financial services on savings groups?
(2)What does the account performance look like for these groups and how does this affect the associated banks’ business models.
(3) What value do the people involved derive from gaining access to formal financial services?
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We use multiple datasets to explore trends over time that can answer the three guiding learning questions embedded in the LINK Up project.
(1) What is the impact of access to formal financial services on savings groups?
(2)What does the account performance look like for these groups and how does this affect the associated banks’ business models.
(3) What value do the people involved derive from gaining access to formal financial services?
Read More...