SmartAid Change Stories
December 2, 2009
Is the SmartAid for Microfinance Index a useful tool for funders wanting to improve their effectiveness in microfinance? CGAP is speaking with managers and technical staff from diverse institutions that participated in SmartAid to find out how they experienced SmartAid. The interviews explore to what extent SmartAid helped catalyze change and greater effectiveness and highlight critical success factors that were necessary for change to happen.
Focusing on the effectiveness of funders' management systems, SmartAid addresses issues that are relevant beyond microfinance. Seeing microfinance as a test case for aid effectiveness, lessons learned on from SmartAid can be used in other areas of development.
Key findings from the interviews are captured in a series of change stories:
How UNCDF uses SmartAid as a management tool. Managers and staff from UNCDF’s Inclusive Finance share how SmartAid proved to be a catalyst for change within their organization.
Interview with UNCDF’s David Morrison. Learn how UNCDF’s executive secretary thinks about external peer reviews and his experience with SmartAid.
SmartAid and Germany's GTZ: Strengthening Accountability for Results. Drawing from her broad experience with change processes within GTZ, Cornelia Richter shared with us her insights about what is needed for change to happen and how SmartAid can be useful.
SmartAid Accelerates Change at GTZ. "SmartAid helped us attain a higher speed with our change processes. It is quite clear in its suggestions and on the points where we need to change,” says Lutz Zimmerman, head of Economic Development and Employment at Germany’s GTZ.
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