Triple Jump in European Dialogue

Micro Finance Institutions with good policies, procedures and results aimed at improving the position and involvement of women show a significant higher productivity and profitability.
This is stated by Jessie Greene and Sascha Huijsman of Triple Jump in their contribution (Triple Jump’s Experience with Social Performance Assessments in the Course of Due Diligence Visits to Microfinance Institutions) to the most recent European Dialogue, the journal of the European Microfinance Platform.

Greene and Huijsman base their findings on an inventory of the outcomes of Triple Jump’s social performance assessment Tool. The tool was developed in 2008 in cooperation with Oxfam Novib to assess all MFIs in the ASN-Novib and Oxfam Novib Funds. The full inventory will soon be published by Triple Jump.
European Dialogue is published on an irregular basis and used as a means to disseminate the results of the activity of the European Microfinance Platform action groups. The most recent European Dialogue ('Making Microfinance Investment Responsible - State of the Practice in Europe') was launched during the European Microfinance Week in Luxembourg.

Meeting
The annual Social Performance task force will take place on June 22 & 23, 2011 in Den Bosch, The Netherlands. The meeting will be hosted by the Netherlands Platform for Microfinance (NPM).