Social Performance Progress Brief (Volume 1, Number 2)
This brief comprises the following four articles:
Social Performance Management argues that microfinance institutions (MFIs) can more successfully achieve social goals if they can assess, monitor and manage progress towards them. The article:
- Describes the social performance pathway;
- Sets out eight specific rationales for managing social performance.
Managing Social Performance explains the conceptual framework and approach to the management of social performance that Imp-Act has developed in collaboration with global MFI partners and states that Imp-Act envisions a microfinance industry where SPM is a core element of the business of microfinance and is thus designed around the needs of the MFI and its stakeholders.
Interview with Mila Mercado-Bunker, President of Ahon sa Hirap, Inc (ASHI) in the Philippines describes ASHI's interest in social performance and its ways of managing social performance.
New Case Studies on Social Performance Management describes the Grameen Foundation's 'progress out of the poverty index' as well as the "staff incentive scheme" of "Partner", an MFI in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
