Case Study

LAPO, Nigeria-Final Report, September 2004

The Lift Above Poverty Organization/Imp-Act partnership - has it worked?
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This report provides an overview of Lift Above Poverty Organization's (LAPO) work with the Imp-Act program. The paper describes:

  • LAPO's target clientele and services offered;
  • Its motivation to join Imp-Act;
  • Its objectives under Imp-Act.

The paper discusses LAPO's activities and notes the following key components of LAPO's work with Imp-Act:

  • Clarifying mission and ensuring staff buy-in;
  • Developing a poverty assessment and monitoring tool;
  • Modifying the LAPO participation form;
  • Conducting periodic and in-depth studies of impact;
  • Carrying out in-depth interviews, market research and client satisfaction research;
  • Client/ staff learning process;
  • Institutionalizing a social performance management system.

The paper examines outputs of the study and discusses LAPO's:

  • Concept of poverty;
  • Poverty targeting approach;
  • Monitoring system.

It then studies the organizational changes made by LAPO in the areas of:

  • Policy, practice and products;
  • Institutionalizing social performance.

The paper lists the following reasons for staff satisfaction with the project. The project:

  • Refocused the organization on the mission and addressed the problem of mis-targeting;
  • Changed staff perspective on working with very poor people;
  • Addressed the problem of client-exit;
  • Provided base-line data for social development and microfinance programs;
  • Developed research skills and institutional capacity.

The paper concludes by discussing LAPO's future plans for:

  • Social performance management system;
  • Funding.

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