About this page GiveWell aims to find the and recommend them to donors. We tend to put a lot of investigation into the organizations we find most promising, and de-prioritize others based on limited information. When we decide not to prioritize an organization, we try to create a brief writeup of our thoughts on that charity because we want to be as. The following write-up should be viewed in this context: it explains why we determined that we wouldn't be prioritizing the organization in question as a potential. This write-up should not be taken as a 'negative rating' of the charity. Rather, it is our attempt to be as clear as possible about the process by which we came to our top recommendations. A note on this page's publication date The last time we examined Grameen Foundation was in 2009.
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In our, we determined that it was unlikely to meet our based on our past examination of it, so we did not revisit it. We invite all charities that feel they meet our criteria to. The content we created in 2009 appears below. This content is likely to be no longer fully accurate, both with respect to what it says about Grameen Foundation and with respect to what it implies about our own views and positions. With that said, we do feel that the takeaways from this examination are sufficient not to prioritize re-opening our investigation of this organization at this time. Published: March 2010. Summary The Grameen Foundation provides technical assistance to in the developing world.
Although it takes its name from the well-known Grameen Bank, founded by Muhammad Yunus, the Grameen Foundation is a distinct entity. The Grameen Foundation works in a variety of ways with microfinance institutions in the developing world. It appears as though the Grameen Foundation is not directly providing loan capital to borrowers.
The Grameen Foundation also runs non-microfinance programs focused on economic empowerment, such as the Village Phone program (which we ). Our investigations of Grameen Foundation to date (details below) have not been able to answer what we consider key questions about an organization working in this area. These key questions include:. What impact does Grameen Foundation's technical assistance have on Grameen Foundation's partner institutions (i.e., the banks it supports)?. Is Grameen Foundation's due diligence on partner institutions answering the following questions:.
What are partner institutions' 'true' repayment rates? (More on the 'true' repayment rate ). What interest rates do partner institutions charge and how do these compare to other available interest rates?. How do partner institutions monitor clients' potential over-indebtedness? What steps do partners take to prevent potential intimidation of clients by loan officers?.
What are partner institutions' dropout and retention rates? (More on the importance of dropout/retention rates ). What are partner institutions' methods for targeting the very poor, and can they demonstrate that they are successfully doing so? Details of our evaluations We have evaluated the Grameen Foundation at three times. The Grameen Foundation applied for a grant in late 2009, we reviewed the Grameen Foundation's website in mid-2009, and the Grameen Foundation applied for a grant in late 2007. Details on each follow below.
2009 grant application We reviewed the Grameen Foundation in late 2009 as part of our process for distributing $250,000 in funds to an economic empowerment organization in Sub-Saharan Africa. Our review consisted of reviewing materials Grameen submitted in response to our questions and multiple phone conversations with staff members.
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Based on our review, we cannot confidently recommend the Grameen Foundation to donors. Due to a non-disclosure agreement we signed with the Grameen Foundation, we unfortunately cannot share the details of the documents they sent us.
Interested donors should contact the Grameen Foundation directly. 2009 website review In mid-2009, we reviewed the charityname's website as part of a process to identify top international aid organizations. We reviewed Grameen Foundation's website to determine whether it met either of the following two criteria, which we believe indicate whether a charity is likely to eventually be able to meet our for a recommendation:.
Does the charity publish high-quality monitoring and evaluation reports on its website? A charity meets this criterion if it freely publishes - on its website - substantial evidence regarding impact that (a) discusses how the impacts of projects or programs were evaluated, including what information was collected and how it was collected; (b) discusses the actual impact of the evaluated projects. We seek enough evidence to be confident that a charity changed lives for the better - not simply that it carried out its activities as intended.
Different programs aim for different sorts of life change, and must be assessed on different terms. We do not hold to a single universal rule for determining what 'impact' we're looking for; rather, what we look for varies by program type. (For more, see, ).
Does the charity stand out for program selection? A charity meets this criterion if it focuses primarily on (or publishes enough financial information to make it clear that 75% of its recent funding is devoted to) what we consider 'priority programs.' These programs have particularly strong evidence bases, enough to lower the burden of proof on a charity running them. Such programs include administering vaccinations, distributing insecticide-treated nets, and treating tuberculosis, among many others.
(For more, see our.) Grameen Foundation did not meet either of these criteria. 2007 grant application We reviewed the Grameen Foundation in 2007 as part of a process to provide a grant to an organization working to increase incomes in the developing world. Read the, which includes a charity response from the Grameen Foundation.
Grameen Foundation, 'What We Do.' . 'Although we are independent organizations, Grameen Foundation and Grameen Bank maintain an enduring relationship.' Grameen Foundation, 'Grameen Heritage.' .
'We challenged ourselves to (1) play a central role in making it possible for our global network of partners to reach an additional five million poor people, especially women (2) measure the progress of clients to ensure that they are moving out of poverty, and (3) champion three innovations that advance the microfinance sector.' Grameen Foundation, 'Annual Report (2008-2009),' Pg 8. Grameen Foundation, 'Empowering the Poor.'
Can I visit Grameen Bank? Welcomes visitor from all around the world. Please the International & Program Department to set up your visit: Training and International Program Grameen Bank Mirpur Two, Dhaka 1216 Bangladesh Fax No: (00)880-2-8013559 Telephone No: (00)880-2-8011425, (00)880-2-9005257-69 Email: [email protected] Does Grameen Bank offer internships or training? Grameen Bank offers various training options: the International Dialogue Program, the Exposure Visit, the Basic Training Course, a special program for journalists, the Research Program and the Internship Program. Please visit the Training section of this website to find out more. How can I apply for an internship or training program at GB?
You can apply by sending your letter of application and your resume to the International & Training Program Department. Your letter of application should indicate your objectives and expectations, your planned period of stay and your expected date of arrival.
For an internship application, you will also need to submit a confirmation letter of your university, proofing your student identity. Paper and email applications are accepted. For more information please visit the training section of this website.
By By June 9, 2013 The Grameen Foundation was providing health care to pregnant women in Ghana in 2010 when the organization had an idea: As cellphones become more widely available in developing nations, health information can be quickly disseminated to poor patients in remote locations via voice and text messaging. Three years later, the foundation’s thesis has given rise to an open-source software platform called Mobile Technology for Community Health, or MOTECH, that an increasing number of nonprofits, non-governmental organizations and humanitarian groups are using to address pandemics such as tuberculosis and HIV. “We’re a nonprofit developing software that we hope other nonprofits will build on top of,” said John Tippett, director of mobile health innovations. “It’s a pretty cool position to be in.because we can have an impact pretty broadly.” Though many organizations use technology to carry out international development programs, a foundation-turned-software-developer isn’t exactly a common occurrence. It’s a niche that executives at the Grameen Foundation said has proven beneficial as development groups turn to information technology to improve the way they deliver aid. Like any large enterprise, nonprofits and other non-governmental organizations have seen their operations impacted by the rise of big data — the troves of digital information that can now be collected, stored and analyzed thanks to advances in computing.
The weekly text messages from Grameen Foundation’s Mobile Midwife Service give expectant mothers in rural Ghana the information they need to have safe deliveries. (Courtesy of Grameen Foundation) “At the highest level, what we’re doing is helping these organization be more efficient and more effective in the same way any well-funded business would be more efficient or effective with technology,” said Steve Wright, vice president of poverty tools and insights. Embracing the latest information technology can come at an expense, one that may be difficult for smaller groups to afford. Organizations like the Grameen Foundation help ease the financial burden by developing technology that can be adapted for another organization, often at little or no cost. “They can just take the software, and we don’t even know they have it,” Tippett said of the foundation’s MOTECH software. In other instances, he said, the foundation may act as a developer or consultant and tailor the software to the organization’s needs for a fee. For Grameen, the price of developing the MOTECH platform has been offset in part by grants from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, which has made improving global health one of its central missions.
But the Grameen Foundation has more recently expanded beyond just mobile health initiatives, developing a program called TaroWorks that allows any humanitarian organization to create customized surveys using technology from Salesforce.com and Google Android. The organizations create questionnaires designed to gather information about the people they aim to help, whether they’re farmers, pregnant women or the visually impaired. Field workers then use mobile phones or computers to conduct the surveys and submit responses.
Wright said the collection of data that TaroWorks facilitates means organizations can make decisions about the communities they serve and the development programs they offer based on tangible evidence. “This is the kind of data that they’ve never been able to have outside of anecdotes. So they’re able to make decisions in real time,” Wright said.
“We want them to build products and services that are useful to the poor, based on data,” he added. The nonprofit VisionSpring was among the first to use TaroWorks. The social enterprise sells low-cost eyeglasses to people in developing countries with the goal of improving individuals’ economic output and access to education. VisionSpring now uses TaroWorks to collect information from its customers, including basic demographic information such as age or marital status, as well as answers to more nuanced questions, such as why they don’t currently own spectacles. “We know our community.
We know our customers. We know our market.
But this takes it to the next level of understanding, so much more so that now we can actually be proactive,” said VisionSpring Chief Operating Officer Peter Eliassen.
Grameen Bank and Grameen Trust jointly organize 2-3 International Dialogue Programs a year for potential replications of the Grameen model throughout the world. The Dialogue is intended to provide an immersion into the Grameen milieu, to assist in the design of Grameen type credit programs, and to share the experiences of implementing and adopting the Grameen Bank approach. Participants in the dialogues are generally potential replicators, the founders and/or chief executive of institutions who are in a position to take decisions on behalf of their organizations, regarding Grameen replication in their own contexts. The International Dialogue Program is a 7-day program including the arrival and departure of the participants, visits to rural and urban microcredit programs in Grameen model in Bangladesh and sharing of experience among participants.
Special Dialogues are also organized from time to time for participants from government and non-government agencies in different countries. Interns and researchers are also welcome to participate as observers of the Dialogue Program for a small fee.