The BBVA Microfinance Foundation (BBVAMF) has taken part in the 2016 SPTF Annual Meeting, an annual event organized by the Social Performance Task Force (SPTF) that brings together specialists in the microfinance sector.
The city chosen this year was Marrakesh. “We don´t seek to prove our impact, but to analyze it in order to improve it”, is part of the message conveyed by Stephanie García Van Gool, from the Foundation´s Impact Measurement Department, who stressed that the aim of this analysis is to gain a better understanding of customers and their needs to adapt the institution´s activity to its social mission.
García Van Gool has presented the social measurement system of the BBVA Microfinance Foundation and the outcomes for 2015, giving special importance to measuring the progress of customers, at the presentation BBVAMF Group’s impact assessment, a “pull” rather than a “push” model in outcomes measurement.
The BBVAMF, which since the inception of the SPTF has participated in the working groups, has been invited for its reputation in measuring outcomes to take part in the panel discussion Case Study Discussions: Measuring and Reporting Client Outcomes. The Foundation´s work had already been recognized previously for its transparency and good governance.