Background Materials for the June 17-18, 2008 Meeting in Paris

• Agenda for the Social Performance Task Force Meeting

June 16, 2008 - Pre-Meeting with MFI Practitioners Who Participated in the Social Indicators Pilot

• Purpose of the Social Indicators Pilot:
  • Background Information on Pilot
  • Social Indicators Pilot
    
    
• Introduction to Microfinance Social Performance Standards
  
  
• Feedback on Social Performance Indicators from Pilot ParticipantsSee the June 17, 2008 section (below) for a link to the qualitative report on the social indicators pilot.
  
  
• Technical Assistance on Sampling, Administering the PAT and PPI Tools, and MIS Issues:
  • Administering the PAT Tool
  • Progress out of Poverty Index (PPI)
  • Information Systems Program - CGAP and EU/ACP
  
  
  
• Next Steps with Social Rating Tools

June 17, 2008 - Task Force General Meeting, Day 1

• Communication of Results from the Last Year:
  • Social Performance Map_SEEP Working Group
  • For background, please review the Map at http://www.seepnetwork.org/content/article/detail/6017.
  • Connection between Social Performance and Financial Performance
  • Social Performance Management: Lessons Learnt and Future Challenges _Imp-Act
  • Social Performance Management in Practice
  
  
  
• Social Impact Measurement Project by INAFI:
  
  • Lessons Learned from Phase I of the INAFI Social Impact Measurement Tool
  • Background paper for SIM tool INAFI
  • SIM Indicators
  • Social Impact Measurement - Questionnaire
    
  
  
• Learning from Transparency and Sustainability in Finance
  • For background, please visit the websites www.tblmicrofinance.com and www.tblmicrofinance.blogspot.com, and review the following sample GRI reports:
    • Reliance, The Gambia
      
    • XAC Bank, Mongolia
      
    • Findesa, Nicaragua
      
    • Acleda, Cambodia
      
      
• Development of Social Performance Indicators:
  • QUALITATIVE REPORT ON SOCIAL PERFORMANCE INDICATORS
  • Annexes to Qualitative Report on Social Performance Indicators

June 18, 2008 - Task Force General Meeting, Day 2

• Review of Social Ratings Products:
  • MicroRate Social Rating
  • Findings from MCRIL and Microfinanza Rating Joint Pilot
  • Initial Feedback from Oikocredit on Social Ratings
  
  
  
• Global Rating and Subsidy Service_ADA
  
  
• Briefing on the Global Reporting Initiative

June 19, 2008 - MIV Roundtable on Responsible Finance

• Microfinance Social Rating Services
  
• Microfinance: Focus on Investor Demand
• Socially Responsible Investment in Context
  
• MIVs' Current Practices on Responsible Finance