We believe in the power of enterprise to reduce global poverty.
Member Spotlight
Meet Janet Heisey:
Program Director for Asia for Trickle Up >
Janet Heisey, Program Director for Asia for Trickle Up, oversees the livelihood program in India, which enables extremely poor women to move up the economic ladder by establishing livelihoods, building skills, linking to safety net programs, and establish savings and credit groups.
BlogRoll
Breaking the Stovepipe Syndrome to Reach the Extreme Poor
“A household in extreme poverty is in a state of bankruptcy—not capable of covering its minimum expenditures for daily survival—and the sequenced strategies we are discussing today are very similar to remedies used for bankruptcies: cash injection to pay for most critical needs followed by debt reduction and asset (re)building.” – JanMaes, The SEEP Network... read more >
Do Systemic Interventions Reach the Poorest of the Poor?
Summary
This document captures the main points of a discussion that took place in the LinkedIn Group of the Market Facilitation Initiative (MaFI) between April and May 2010. The question discussed was: Do systemic interventions reach the poorest of the poor or is there a false dichotomy between “systemic” interventions and focalised interventions on communities or “the very poor”?
