8/8/2019 POWG Mid Year Meeting - Group Concept

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Poverty Outreach Working Group

Mid-Year Meeting

Breakout Concept (assumes roughly four hour timeframe)

Desired Outcome: A potential framework of ways that microfinance/microenterprise development

can effectively reach and positively impact people living on less than $1.25/day (PPP).

Intermediate Objectives: Achieve consensus on the following questions:

y What does it mean to live on less than $1.25/day?What are the reasons people findthemselves in this situation? How do these characteristics affect access to financial and

enterprise development services?

y Why dont existing MF or MED organizations and projects do a good job of reaching thispopulation? Why dont very poor people access these services?

Activities:

I. Poverty Frameworks 60 minutesa. GF to present commonly used categories to define the poorest (e.g., level of assets,

physical location, occupation, poverty traps) based on our research (see attached table)

b. Each poverty category will be placed on a large flip chart sheet and placed around theroom. Participants given Post-its and asked to identify ways these categories inhibit the

poorest from accessing MF or MED services, and place the Post It on the appropriate

category.

c. Regroup and discussII. Logic Trees 90 to 120 minutes

a. GF to present two fundamental questions: Why dont MF or MED projects do a goodjob of reaching the very poor? and Why dont very poor people do a good job of

accessing MF and MED services? In this way, we can separately address the supply and

demand side of the issue

b. Depending on the size of the group and the amount of time allotted, participants willcreate an issue or logic tree addressing each of these questions (see photo example

below)

c. Regroup and discussIII. Conclusions 45 minutes

a. Bringing together the two activities what are characteristics of poor people and howarent they currently accessing MF or MED services, begin to brainstorm a potential

framework that looks at ways very poor people currently access such services or could

be accessing such services

b. Discuss next steps of this work for the POWGMaterials needed: Flip chart paper, masking tape, post-its, and either a large white board or a large

amount of flip charts (and wall space) for the logic trees.