Yaquta Kanchwala Fatehi

Yaquta Kanchwala Fatehi
William Davidson Institute

Yaquta Kanchwala Fatehi (tweets @ysk2115) is a program manager for the Performance Measurement Initiative of the William Davidson Institute at the University of Michigan. She works with organizations to identify and improve the socio-economic well-being of their low-income stakeholders in low- and middle-income countries. Combining social and business metrics, Fatehi helps enterprises gain unique insights to solve key business challenges while communicating impact evidence. Fatehi also conducts research in monitoring and evaluation to find innovative impact assessment approaches for complex environments including those that provide data quickly to guide organizations on pivoting to new strategies as needed.

With over a decade of relevant experience, Fatehi has worked in varied sectors: economic development, agritech, agriculture value chains, clean cookstoves, food security, healthcare, micro-distribution, nutrition, microfinance, and WASH; and in different functional roles: consulting, research, program management, and operations. She’s worked on projects in Asia, Africa and Latin America and with a variety of organizational types including multi-nationals, social enterprises and nonprofits.

Posts by Yaquta Kanchwala Fatehi

Guest Articles

Friday
November 8
2019

Yaquta Kanchwala Fatehi / Dana Gorodetsky

Five Ways the Private Sector Can Align with the Sustainable Development Goals

How can the private sector advance the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals, and what’s the best way to measure the success of these efforts? Those questions were among the topics explored at the recent Sustainability and Development Conference at the University of Michigan. Yaquta Kanchwala Fatehi and Dana Gorodetsky at the William Davidson Institute attended the event, and they share some essential insights on the private sector’s role in supporting the SDGs.

Categories
Agriculture, Entrepreneurship, Environment, Impact Assessment

Tags
academia, conferences, events and competitions, global development, SDGs, social business, social impact, sustainability, Sustainable Development, William Davidson Institute
Tuesday
April 3
2018

Rebecca Baylor / Heather Esper / Yaquta Kanchwala Fatehi

Here’s How to Play Matchmaker to Social + Business Metrics ‘Power Couples’

For many businesses and organizations, the idea of measuring their impact can be scary, elusive or just plain boring. But pairing social and business metrics "power couples" can give organizations unique insights to solve key business challenges. In a new report, the William Davidson Institute shares the results of its work with three organizations to demystify data collection of their social impacts. Rebecca Baylor of WDI writes that the team's work proves impact measurement doesn't have to be as hard as it may seem.

Categories
Impact Assessment

Tags
corporate social responsibility, Impact Assessment, impact investing, impact investment, social business, social enterprise, social impact, William Davidson Institute
Friday
January 1
2016

Heather Esper / Yaquta Kanchwala Fatehi

The State of Assessment: Why the ‘assess or not’ debate continues and how we can move beyond it (Part 1 of 2)

Recent debate has focused on whether businesses should assess social, economic and/or environmental impact. How did we get stuck here? In this two-part series, Heather Esper and Yaquta Kanchwala Fatehi of the William Davidson Institute explore the evolution of assessment and how to move beyond the paralysis.

Categories
Entrepreneurship, Impact Assessment

Tags
Impact Assessment, measurement, metrics, scale
Thursday
October 22
2015

Heather Esper / Yaquta Kanchwala Fatehi

The State of Assessment: Moving the conversation forward to accelerate value creation (Part 2 of 2)

Heather Esper and Yaquta Kanchwala Fatehi of the William Davidson Institute say it's time to stop debating whether businesses should assess social, economic and/or environmental impact, and move on to a conversation about how to extract the most value. They even offer five core activities to accelerate that value.

Categories
Entrepreneurship, Impact Assessment

Tags
Impact Assessment, measurement, metrics, scale

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