Digital & Financial Inclusion
Other notable projects:
Evaluation of mainstream banking program for MFI-BC model based operation, (Metlife Foundatio)
Final Evaluation: Pacific Financial Inclusion Programme Phase II
The final evaluation of PFIP II leveraged Utility Focused Evaluation and assisted UNCDF and its partners understand the relevance, efficiency, effectiveness, likely impact and sustainability of the programme. It aimed to provide evaluative evidence on the contribution of PFIP’s work to financial inclusion in partner countries and to UNCDF’s broader financial inclusion strategy and situated the programme in its broader development cooperation environment.
—Duration: 2019- 20
—Location: Fiji, Solomon Islands, Papua New Guinea, Vanuatu, Tonga and Samoa
—Client: UN Capital Development Fund
Impact Evaluation of Digital Inclusion via Education Phase II
The project aims to train 500,000 people on Digital Financial Literacy and drive them towards a behavioral change for adopting digital transactions. The evaluation objectives for this project is to assess the level of change in Knowledge, Attitude and Practice towards digital payments in the target population.
—Duration: 2019- 20
—Location: Maharastra
—Client: Citi Foundation
Business Correspondent Network Managers (BCNM) Experiments for Demonstrating Scale
The project intends to drive informed pilots with established Business Correspondent Network Managers (BCNMs) to test more cost effective and agile ways of establishing and on-boarding new Business Correspondent Agents (BC Agents) and improve viability of individual agents by testing various approaches of diversifying and increasing revenue.
—Duration: 2020- Ongoing
—Location: Bihar, UP, Gujarat, Assam, Maharashtra, MP, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, Karnataka
—Client: Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
Impact of COVID19 on preferences of the household portfolio for low-income migrant households
Using a mixed-method research design, this cross-sectional study aims to unveil the changes that COVID19 has induced in the financial behavior, decision making process, risk mitigation strategies and future resource allocation strategy for the migrant households. It is expected that these changes will ultimately lead to a change in the overall household portfolio. It will further deep dive to understand the variation of financial behavior, risk preferences, coping mechanisms and decision making for these migrant households. Finally, this research will also aim to assess the response to Unconditional Cash Transfer (UCT),as a measure of social security, by these migrant households.
―Duration: 2020- 21
—Location: Bihar
—Client: Dvara Research
Evaluation of PSIG Financial Literacy and Women’s Empowerment programme
PSIG supported partner MFIs (17) in the 4 focus states to roll out a financial literacy module aimed at economic empowerment of their women clients through a specialized cadre of Master Trainers. CII has been commissioned to conduct a detailed evaluation of the program over a period of 15 months.
—Duration: 2017- 18
—Location: Bihar, Odisha, MP, UP
—Client: PSIG- SIDBI & DFID UK
Monitoring and Evaluation of scale up program to train different segments of low-income households on DFS
The project aims to train 500,000 people on Digital Financial Literacy and drive DiVE (Digital Inclusion Via Education) aims to reach out to 200,000 people from different segments of low income households to increase their awareness about DFS. The project will be engaging with different partners and the CII team will have the core responsibility to ensure streamlined reporting and outcomes measurement through an evaluation exercise.
—Duration: 2017- 19
—Location: Maharastra
—Client: Citi Foundation