Credit for women's microenterprises : assessing a social project
Arlette Cecilia Lourdes Beltrán Barco, Betty M. Alvarado Pérez, Hanny Cueva Beteta
Universidad del Pacífico
Research output: Other contribution › peer-review
This case is based on an ex post assessment conducted in Peru. The circumstances surrounding this evaluation were very restrictive: a limited budget as well as lacking base line and adequate monitoring system. The evaluation was requested at the endof the project, with the evaluators having no control over the information gathered earlier; however, they tried to use the best methodological options available to assess the program. Suddenly, an opportunity presents itself for the evaluators to recommend a better assessment methodology for the second stage in this program and even to suggest some adjustments for its original program design. A special feature in this case is that students do not start from scratch: they have information about what happened in the first stage of the project, and they can use it to build, amidst a new setting, a sounder, more ambitious evaluation procedure for the second stage, before its launching. The social and economic effects/impact of the project's first stage were measured with a non-experimental method, without a control group. For their evaluation work, the consultants relied on two surveys administered to a group of selected women's organizations that had received micro-loans. The first survey focused on the progress made by business ventures funded with these loans, and the second one probed the social impact of the project on members' households. Against the described backdrop, in the first stage, the evaluators used the perceptions of the people involved in the project to gather information on their earlier situation. The second stage evaluation would have a more adequate assessment design and would be submitted with recommendations for project execution improvements. To this end, consultants would have to submit their technical plan and the budget required to successfully meet assessment expectations.
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Beltrán Barco, A. C. L., Alvarado Pérez, B. M., & Cueva Beteta, H. (2015, Jul 28). Credit for women's microenterprises : assessing a social project. Harvard Business School Publishing. https://hbsp.harvard.edu/product/UP0015-HCB-ENG
Beltrán Barco, Arlette Cecilia Lourdes ; Alvarado Pérez, Betty M. ; Cueva Beteta, Hanny. / Credit for women's microenterprises : assessing a social project. 2015. Harvard Business School Publishing. 17 p.
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Credit for women's microenterprises : assessing a social project. / Beltrán Barco, Arlette Cecilia Lourdes; Alvarado Pérez, Betty M.; Cueva Beteta, Hanny.
17 p. Harvard Business School Publishing. 2015, Caso Harvard.
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Beltrán Barco ACL, Alvarado Pérez BM, Cueva Beteta H. Credit for women's microenterprises : assessing a social project. 2015. 17 p.