Southeast Asia
Oikocredit Holds PPI Learning Forum for PPI Users
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Oikocredit in collaboration with Microfinance Council of the Philippines (MCPI) and Grameen Foundation held a Learning Forum on the Progress out of Poverty Index (PPI) last May 19, 2010 at Torre Venezia, Quezon City. |
| Sixteen (16) representatives coming from six microfinance institutions and five cooperatives attended the learning exchange on the management and implementation of the PPI. The day-long forum was aimed at helping improve PPI practices among organizations using or piloting the PPI. The activity's specific objective was to identify the concerns as well as the solutions taken in the management of the PPI pilot and/or implementation such as the issues and lessons in data gathering and data analysis, the requirements in rolling out the tool throughout the whole organization, and so on. MFIs using or piloting the PPI presented their experiences on the different PPI systems starting from Institutional Buy-in, to Training, Data Collection, Data Encoding and MIS integration to Data Analysis, and lastly, Quality Control. The forum also aimed at contributing to maximize the use of the PPI results to strengthen organizations' social performance. To help participants draw insights on the use of PPI data in strengthening SPM within the organization, Mr. Gilbert Maramba, research manager at Negros Women for Tomorrow Foundation, talked about "PPI as a Tool for Social Performance Management". In addition, a separate discussion on "Using PPI information: Some Ideas from Efficiency Analyses in the Public Sector" by Dr. Erwin Tiongson, associate professor at the Center for Development Management, Asian Institute of Management, hoped to broaden the perspective of the participants on the use of PPI data in day-to-day management. The PPI Learning Forum was facilitated by Ms. Meldy Pelejo, SPM Regional Coordinator of Oikocredit and Mr. Christopher Tan, Regional Director for Southeast Asia of Grameen Foundation. |
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