Carolina de Miranda

Carolina de Miranda
Fundación Capital

Carolina de Miranda is the Director of the Social & Livelihood Promotion Department. She coordinates programs that have the goal of improving the life conditions and financial health of people living in poverty and extreme poverty. Carolina is an expert on social protection, particularly with regards to poverty reduction policies and women’s empowerment. Before joining Fundación Capital she worked with the non-profit and private sector in initiatives to promote youth entrepreneurship, the use of ICTs in education, and family farming. She holds a master’s in development studies from the Institute of Development Studies (IDS-UK) and a graduate diploma in socio-environmental management from FIA São Paulo.

Articles by Carolina de Miranda

Guest Articles

Tuesday
April 26
2022

Laura Morínigo / Carolina de Miranda

Building a Transformative Gender Approach into Graduation Programs: Lessons Learned from a Three-Year Initiative in Latin America

Latin America is home to 86 million people living in extreme poverty – and women in the region are particularly impacted. Graduation programs have shown their effectiveness at addressing the multi-dimensional challenges of poverty, but Laura Morínigo and Carolina de Miranda at Fundación Capital argue that these programs must do more to address gender inequalities. They discuss the results of an initiative that integrated a transformative gender approach into poverty graduation, and explore how this approach can amplify these programs' impact on women.

Categories
Finance, Technology

Tags
digital inclusion, financial inclusion, gender equality, gender lens, graduation approach, poverty alleviation
Guest Articles

Tuesday
July 20
2021

Daryl Collins / Carolina de Miranda / Laura Morínigo

Research that Embraces the Messiness of Real Life: How an Innovative, Tech-Enabled Survey Method is Revealing the True Feelings of the Bottom Billion

Of any population in the world, the poor are the least likely to feel free to speak their minds, which makes it difficult to use surveys to understand and meet their unique needs. Daryl Collins, and Carolina de Miranda and Laura Morínigo of Fundación Capital, explore how tech-enabled research methods can provide a solution to this dilemma. They share how a unique, WhatsApp-based survey approach has helped Fundación Capital understand the nuanced meaning behind the responses of women who participated in a gender norms-focused messaging campaign in Paraguay.

Categories
Impact Assessment, Technology

Tags
data, gender equality, graduation approach, impact measurement, research, youth
Guest Articles

Wednesday
February 24
2021

Carolina de Miranda / Cristina Heisecke / Mauricio Royg

Social Protection Goes Digital: Lessons From an Innovative, WhatsApp-Driven Outreach Campaign in Paraguay

The COVID-19 lockdown has reshaped social policy in Paraguay, as programs that depended on face-to-face contact to reach participants suddenly found themselves unable to conduct their usual outreach. Cristina Heisecke, Carolina de Miranda and Mauricio Royg of Fundación Capital share lessons from an innovative solution to this challenge: a digital campaign that used WhatsApp to offer a remote alternative to the in-person training and coaching of the country's flagship cash transfer program.

Categories
Coronavirus, Finance, Social Enterprise, Technology

Tags
cash transfers, COVID-19, poverty alleviation

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