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Success Stories
The
ForeignAID Ratings team has a strong track record of success and a firm
commitment to global development. ForeignAID Ratings team members have
evaluated and certified grassroots NGOs and NGO networks in Ghana, India,
the Philippines, Peru, Ecuador, Guyana, Zambia, Guinea, Kenya, and
Zimbabwe, for example, and have partnered with Hewlett Packard, Lehman
Brothers, JP Morgan, 3Com, McKinsey and Company, Sierra Atlantic, and the
Infinity Foundation to lead ICT-for-development initiatives in Ghana,
Mali, Ecuador and India.
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Monitoring
and Evaluation Success Stories
ForeignAID Ratings has conducted evaluations and ratings of a wide range
of development agencies around the globe. Our experienced
international network of evaluators has rated organizations that focus on
youth, education, health, capacity building and microfinance, for
example.
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USAID’s
Office of Private Voluntary Cooperation
(PVC)-American Schools and Hospitals Abroad (ASHA) NGO Strengthening
Program, Central America and Africa |
WORK-IN-PROGRESS:
ForeignAID Ratings is in the process of providing rating reports and
scores for seven USAID NGOs and NGO Networks. The countries and
organizations include: Burundi (2 local NGOs); Zambia (1 local NGO
and 1 local Network);
Guatemala
(1 national network); Honduras (1 national network); and 1 regional
network covering Guatemala, Nicaragua and Honduras. |
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Gatoto
Primary
Community
School,
Nairobi,
Kenya |
NEW ISSUE:
ForeignAID Ratings assigns AA- rating to
Gatoto Primary Community School, a small-medium primary school
serving low-income families. |
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NGO Development Foundation,
Sarajevo,
Bosnia
&
Herzegovina |
NEW ISSUE:
ForeignAID Ratings assigns BBB+ rating to the NGO Development
Foundation, community development foundation building NGO capacity. |
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Youth Forum 2001,
Razgrad,
Bulgaria |
NEW ISSUE:
ForeignAID Ratings assigns BB rating to Youth Forum 2001, a
community-based youth organization. |
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Rural Unit for
Health and Social Affairs
(RUHSA),
Christian
Medical College, Vellore, India |
NEW ISSUE:
ForeignAID Ratings assigns AA- rating to RUHSA, a
community-based inter-sectoral health and development NGO
that targets the rural poor. |
Other Consulting Appointments
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ForeignAID Ratings team leader, Shiv, interviews microfinance clients
of Mabhuri Maheswari Solidarity Group in
Orissa,
India
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ForeignAID Ratings
team leader previously led an international team to monitor and
evaluate CARE’s rural microfinance program in
Orissa, India.
Designed to empower rural poor women by increasing their incomes and
economic security, this seven-year microfinance program is funded
through a $15 million grant from the U.K.’s Department for
International Development. As co-author of the evaluation study,
ForeignAID Ratings team leader traveled to the field to measure the
impact of and make recommendations to the microfinance program. He
formulated the evaluation methodology, based on quantitative and
qualitative data, and led individual and group interviews to key
stakeholders such as CARE’s partner-microfinance institutions,
solidarity groups and individual women clients to analyze the
effectiveness of the program. |
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ForeignAID Ratings team leader previously designed a ratings
tool to evaluate microfinance institutions (MFIs) in
India for
PlaNet Finance.
Based on quantitative and qualitative data, the ratings tool evaluates
an MFI’s portfolio performance, management systems, financial
resources, products and services, organizational governance (board and
human resources), alliances and collaborations, and sustainability.
ForeignAID Ratings team leader also designed the methodology to apply
the ratings tool and an appropriate weighting scheme, which emphasizes
an MFI’s level of sustainability. |
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Development Success Stories
ForeignAID Ratings team members have partnered with Hewlett Packard, Cisco
Systems, Inc., Sovereign Bank, and the CEO of McKinsey and Company, among
others, to build ICT centers in needy schools and universities in Ecuador,
Ghana, India, Mali, New York City, West Philadelphia, and Washington D.C.
Below is a sample of ForeignAID Ratings success stories.
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Team Awarded $1
Million For Efforts To Bridge The Digital Divide With Computing
Infrastructure In Ghana |
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ForeignAID
Ratings Chief Technology Officer, Rohan Amin, demonstrates Windows XP
to university students in
Kwahu Daah,
Ghana.
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ForeignAID Ratingsteam members, while at the
University
of
Pennsylvania
, received a grant of
Hewlett-Packard equipment and services totaling $1.12 million to lay
the foundation for a high-speed information and communicationinfrastructure in
the West African nation of
Ghana
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Ghana
's Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) and at
community technology centers (CTC's) in
Kumasi
,
Ghana
's second-largest city, and in the
country's Eastern Region.
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ForeignAID
Ratings team members install Ecuador’s First Internet-connected
computer lab in a public elementary school |
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Escuela
Fiscal Zoila Ugarte de Landivar, Quito, Ecuador
Inauguration of Ecuador’s first Internet-connected computer lab in a
public elementary school. |
ForeignAID Ratings
team members led the “Formando Un Puente”—Building a Bridge—Delegation
to build Ecuador’s first internet-connected computer lab in a public
elementary school. Built in partnership with 3Com and SatNet, the
computer lab put a smile on the faces of students at Escuela Fiscal
Zoila Ugarte de Landivar and has added a new facet to the education at
the school. |
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ForeignAID
Ratings team members install computer center at the YMV Vocational
Training Institute in Himachal Pradesh, India |
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YMV Vocational Training Institute students use the newly installed
computer lab. |
ForeignAID Ratings
team members partnered with Lehman Brothers, JP Morgan, Sovereign
Bank, Reliance Industries, and 3Com to build a ten-workstation
computer lab with Universal Power Supply at the YMV Vocational
Training Institute serving disadvantaged women in the northern Indian
state of Himachal Pradesh. |
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