The Poverty Stoplight Program of Fundacion Paraguaya, a nonprofit microfinance company that develops and implements practical and sustainable solutions to tackle poverty, is a program that enables women to self-assess their level of poverty in comparison to national standards and devise microfranchises or other self-owned businesses to overcome their situation of poverty. Our team shadowed loan officers for two weeks to understand the technicalities of the loan-lending process, read books in detail on processes monitoring and evaluation systems in social entrepreneurial organizations, and developed an improved version of the process monitoring currently in place for the Poverty Stoplight Program. Our suggestions and critiques are detailed in our project proposal.

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Creator

• Pereira, Matheus Caetano
• Kalaitzidis, Nikos Alexander
• Krishnan, Manisha
• Thompson, Lailah Yasmina

Subject

• Security
• Industry
• Community
• Sustainability
• Well-Being

Publisher

• Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Identifier

• E-project-091714-101414

Keyword

• Women in development
• Women entrepreneurs
• Women--Economic aspects

Advisor

• Traver, Robert W.

Year

• 2014

Center

• Asunción, Paraguay Project Center - IQP

Sponsor

• Fundación Paraguaya

Date created

• 2014-09-17

Location

• Asunción

Resource type

• Interactive Qualifying Project

Rights statement

• In Copyright