Articles by Heather Esper
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Thursday
May 6
2010MacArthur Foundation Announces Development of New MDP Programs
This the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation announced that it will be giving $5.6 million to ten universities in eight different countries to create Master’s in Development Practice (MDP) programs.
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Monday
March 22
2010iBoP Asia Conference
In early March, I attended the iBoP Asia conference FRONTIERS: Charting the Future of S&T Innovations for the Base of the Pyramid in Southeast Asia. Individuals from all sectors met in Jakarta, Indonesia on March 3rd to share and discuss science and technology innovations for the BoP in Southeast Asia.
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Friday
February 26
2010Developing a Rigorous Methodology to Assess Impact
As more BoP ventures begin to think about measuring impact, many have questions around how to do so. This post explores some important issues to think through when developing a rigorous methodology to assess impact.
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Monday
February 15
2010Anecdotes, Outputs and Outcomes
Most experts seem to agree that it makes intuitive sense to measure outcomes. So why aren’t more organizations measuring outcomes? Based on observations and conversations we’ve had with numerous organizations, I’ve come up with three different reasons that highlight the underlying constraints.
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Sunday
February 7
2010WDI Workshop on Collecting Outcome Data at the Project Level
At WDI’s BoP Initiative, we have developed a robust, straightforward and low-cost process to collect outcome data at the project level. Our upcoming workshop (Feb 17-19) will focus on teaching organizations how to think through key components in order to develop a sound methodology to collect outcome data using the BoP Impact Assessment Framework.
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