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Assessing the impact of microenterprise services (AIMS)

Microenterprise program credit may be allocated by clients to their enterprises, or used for individual or households purposes. DEC abstract (PN-ABZ-077)

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Microenterprise program credit may be allocated by clients to their enterprises, or used for individual or households purposes. Due to the fungibility of credit, we need a conceptual approach, and a related methodological approach, which encompasses three levels of analysis: the individual, the enterprise, and the household. The approach must be flexible enough to accommodate the fact that the household may be engaged in more than one enterprise. The purpose of this paper is to review different approaches to analyzing the household and to present a conceptual model of the household economic portfolio that will facilitate analysis at all these levels. More specifically, the model is intended to inform the design of the USAID project on Assessing the Impacts of Microenterprise Services (AIMS). The model of the household economic portfolio proposed in this paper builds on the three key developments in the analysis of households by economists, anthropologists, and feminist scholars. That is, it recognizes that there may be negotiation, bargaining, and (even) conflict within the household; it presents the household as a permeable unit, rather than a bounded unit, which is embedded

Source: DEC abstract, PN-ABZ-077 (1996). This is the source's own text, not a cited summary of the documents.

Operated in: Bolivia, Philippines, Uganda, Colombia, West Africa, Indonesia, Mali, Bangladesh, Peru, Jamaica, Africa South of Sahara, Latin America, Zambia, India, Thailand, Ecuador, Chile, Benin, Asia, Kenya, Ghana, Pakistan, Africa, Guatemala, Vietnam, Tanzania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, East Africa, Bulgaria, Mexico.

Years: 1995 to 2004 award start, end from document years
Implementer: Consultative Group to Assist the Poorest (CGAP); Chemonics International Inc.; Weidemann Associates, Inc.; and 23 more 36 sources
Funder or award: USAID. Bur. for Global Programs, Field Support and Research. Center for Economic Growth and Agricultural Development. Ofc. of Microenterprise Development; PCE-0406-I-5034; PCE-0406-I-6012
Purpose: Not available yet: the program's stated purpose has not been read from its documents.

Districts, regions and facilities the program's own documents name, with what the document says it did there. Source: sentences in the program's documents

not in the map yet: no district, region or facility is named for this program yet; only Malawi and Guatemala have place data so far

No district, region or facility is named in this program's documents yet. Place dots exist for Malawi and Guatemala only so far. Towns and natural features are not drawn.

Countries where this program operated, set by the countries its documents name most often. Countries only tagged on documents are listed apart. Source: document tags, scope rule

When the program ran, from its start year to the latest document year. A hatched bar means the start is our estimate. Source: award and document years

Axis: award years, end from years in documents. The start year comes from award fiscal year; the end is the latest document year, so the program may have run longer.

Who started the program, and which administration it began under. Timing only; it does not say who started it. Source: initiative records, start year

Organizations that ran this program, from award records and document authors. Prime and sub roles are not split yet. Source: award and document records

Named as an institutional author on documents; whether prime, sub or consortium member is not recorded. Basis: read from a record field

Organizations named on this program's documents.
Name	Role	Years	Basis	Evidence
Consultative Group to Assist the Poorest (CGAP)	implementer	1995 to 2001	Stated in a document	36 sources
Chemonics International Inc.	implementer	1997 to 2001	Stated in a document	25 sources

Identifiers of the awards and the organizations that funded it. Amounts are under Money. Source: award records

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Awards this program is funded through (identifiers, not amounts).
Name	Years	Basis	Evidence
PCE-0406-I-5034 (idiq, fiscal year not recorded)	1997 to 2002	Stated in a document	34 sources
PCE-0406-I-6012 (idiq, fiscal year not recorded)	1998 to 2002	Stated in a document	21 sources

Labels on the program's documents, not a description of what the program did. Source: DEC document tags

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Studies that assessed this program, and the lessons taken from them. Source: linked evaluation documents

Evaluation studies and evaluation-stage documents, by title and year. Findings not extracted yet.
Title	Year	Document	Why listed
Evaluation of the program to strengthen human resources in microfinance institutions (PRE 1998)	1999	PD-ABS-833	linked as an evaluation of this program
Evaluation to support the development of non-financial services for the rural poor in Bolivia	1999	PN-ACH-670	evaluation-stage document (eval other, weak classifier)
PROMUJER : sistema de auditoria de campo	2000	PN-ACK-630	evaluation-stage document (eval other, weak classifier)

Not recorded yet: support mechanisms, money rows. A missing record is not a finding. USAspending records start in FY2007; earlier obligations are missing, not zero.

Every document that cites this program, grouped by a stage label from a weak classifier. Source: document library

Assessing the impact of microenterprise services (AIMS)

Evaluatorsassessed the program, never counted as implementers

Host-government counterpartsthe government body the program worked with

Name	Role	Years	Basis	Evidence
PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC)	implementer	1997 to 1998	Stated in a document	8 sources
Opportunity International	implementer	1996 to 2002	Stated in a document	7 sources
Carana Corp.	implementer	1997 to 1999	Stated in a document	5 sources
Foundation for International Community Assistance (FINCA)	implementer	1996 to 2003	Stated in a document	5 sources
University of Technology. Entrepreneurial Extension Centre	implementer	1998	Stated in a document	4 sources
Agricultural Cooperative Development International (ACDI)	implementer	1997 to 1999	Stated in a document	4 sources
Harvard University. Harvard Institute for International Development (HIID)	implementer	1996 to 1999	Stated in a document	3 sources
Center for Microenterprise Finance	implementer	1997 to 1998	Stated in a document	3 sources
ACCION International	implementer	1997 to 1999	Stated in a document	2 sources
Catholic Relief Services (CRS)	implementer	1996 to 2000	Stated in a document	2 sources
Ohio State University. Dept. of Agricultural Economics and Rural Sociology. Rural Finance Program	implementer	1997	Stated in a document	2 sources
Association for the Development of Microenterprises, Inc.	implementer	1997 to 1999	Stated in a document	2 sources
University of Missouri at Columbia. College of Agriculture. Dept. of Agricultural Economics	implementer	1996	Stated in a document	1 source
University of Kentucky	implementer	1997	Stated in a document	1 source
Meals for Millions/Freedom from Hunger Foundation	implementer	1998	Stated in a document	1 source
Promocion de la Mujer y la Comunidad	implementer	2000	Stated in a document	1 source
International Development Enterprises (iDE)	implementer	2004	Stated in a document	1 source
Harvard University. Graduate School of Design. Center for Urban Development Studies	implementer	2000	Stated in a document	1 source

Name	Years	Basis	Evidence
USAID. Bur. for Global Programs, Field Support and Research. Center for Economic Growth and Agricultural Development. Ofc. of Microenterprise Development	1995 to 2001	Stated in a document	93 sources
USAID. Bur. for Global Programs, Field Support and Research. Center for Economic Growth. Ofc. of Microenterprise Development	1996 to 2002	Stated in a document	36 sources
USAID. Mission to Bolivia	1997 to 2002	Stated in a document	23 sources
USAID. Bur. for Economic Growth, Agriculture and Trade. Ofc. of Microenterprise Development	2001 to 2004	Stated in a document	8 sources
USAID. Mission to Uganda	1997 to 1998	Stated in a document	8 sources
USAID. Mission to Colombia	2000 to 2002	Stated in a document	5 sources
USAID. Mission to Jamaica	1998	Stated in a document	5 sources
USAID. Mission to Mali	1998 to 2001	Stated in a document	4 sources
University of Missouri at Columbia. College of Agriculture. Dept. of Agricultural Economics	2001	Stated in a document	2 sources
USAID. Mission to India	1999 to 2000	Stated in a document	2 sources
USAID. Mission to Peru	2000	Stated in a document	2 sources
USAID. Mission to Zambia	2000 to 2001	Stated in a document	2 sources
USAID. Bur. for Economic Growth, Agriculture and Trade	2003	Stated in a document	2 sources
USAID. Mission to Bangladesh	2002	Stated in a document	2 sources
USAID. Mission to Ecuador	1998	Stated in a document	1 source
USAID. Mission to Indonesia	1996	Stated in a document	1 source
USAID. Mission to Kenya	1997	Stated in a document	1 source
USAID. Mission to Mexico	1997	Stated in a document	1 source
USAID. Mission to Madagascar	1999	Stated in a document	1 source

Name	Years	Basis	Evidence
Economic Growth Office	1995 to 2001	Stated in a document	32 sources
Bolivia	1997 to 2002	Stated in a document	28 sources
Private Enterprise	1996 to 2000	Stated in a document	17 sources
Uganda	1997 to 2003	Stated in a document	9 sources
Africa Regional	2000	Stated in a document	7 sources
Philippines	1998 to 2002	Stated in a document	7 sources
Colombia	1999 to 2002	Stated in a document	6 sources
Jamaica	1998	Stated in a document	5 sources
Mali	1998 to 2001	Stated in a document	5 sources
Peru	2000 to 2001	Stated in a document	4 sources
Bangladesh	1999 to 2002	Stated in a document	4 sources
India	1999 to 2004	Stated in a document	3 sources
Zambia	2000 to 2003	Stated in a document	3 sources
Indonesia	1996 to 1999	Stated in a document	2 sources
Benin	1999	Stated in a document	1 source
Bulgaria	1996	Stated in a document	1 source
Chile	1998	Stated in a document	1 source
Ecuador	1998	Stated in a document	1 source
Guatemala	2003	Stated in a document	1 source
Kenya	1997	Stated in a document	1 source
Mexico	1997	Stated in a document	1 source
Thailand	1999	Stated in a document	1 source
Vietnam	2003	Stated in a document	1 source
Development Support	1996	Stated in a document	1 source
Madagascar	1999	Stated in a document	1 source

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