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The Microfinance Poverty Assessment Tool was developed as a
much-needed tool to increase transparency on the depth of outreach
of microfinance institutions (MFIs). It is intended to assist
donors and investors to integrate a poverty focus into their
appraisals and funding of financial institutions through a more
precise understanding of the clients served by these institutions.
Used in conjunction with an institutional appraisal of financial
sustainability, governance, management, staff and systems, a
poverty assessment allows for a more holistic understanding of an
MFI. The Tool provides accurate data on the poverty levels of MFI
clients relative to people living in the same community. It uses a
more standardized, globally applicable, and rigorous set of
indicators than those used by conventional microfinance targeting
tools. The tool employs principal component analysis to construct a
multidimensional poverty index that allows the poverty outreach of
MFIs to be compared within and across countries. Originally field
tested in four countries on three continents, it has subsequently
been applied by microfinance donors and MFI networks in numerous
other countries. Although the Microfinance Poverty Assessment Tool
was designed for microfinance, it can also be used to measure the
poverty levels of clients of other development programs.
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