CGAP (Consultative Group to Assist the Poor) has announced its SmartAid for Microfinance Index 2009 results. The SmartAid for Microfinance Index is an index created by CGAP to measure and rate the performance of funders in microfinance. A group of eleven funders, which include development finance institutions and multilateral agencies, participated in the 2009 SmartAid Index and together represent more than fifty percent of all cross-border funding in microfinance. The 2009 SmartAid Index results show that funders scored best on “strategic clarity,” followed by “appropriate instruments” while they scored the lowest in the category of “accountability for results”. Barbara Gahwiler, member of SmartAid team, states, “This means that funding can continue regardless of performance. Without knowing the performance of its microfinance portfolio, an agency cannot manage it effectively, and important lessons from past experience are lost. What’s more, the industry still has a long way to go to develop indicators for tracking the performance of support to the market.”
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