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Measuring Impact WISE

To measure the impact of your support on women’s lives, WE launched WISE: Women’s Impact, Sustainability & Empowerment Project. WISE tracks data that reveals the real-life value of your financial support over time.

Women Impact Sustainability and Empowerment (WISE)

The Women Impact Sustainability and Empowerment (WISE) project is our data-driven assessment tool to evaluate how our funding of micro-loans, financial training and other social supports lead to sustained improvements in the women’s lives. WISE gives us the data that tells the concrete story of positive change. WISE incorporates metrics from four areas to measure women’s progress across WE-funded projects:

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Financial Literacy

This indicator measures the benefits of the educational components of our funding. When women increase their financial literacy to manage their own finances, to create and sustain a business, they acquired tools to provide better for themselves and for their families.

OUR IMPACT

80% of Proyecto Matria clients increase their ability to make informed financial decisions and created business plans.

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Change In Provider Role

Measuring whether self-sufficiency and self-confidence in the ability to maintain one’s own finances had an impact on the way women operated within their own households as the provider.

OUR IMPACT

7 out of 8 participants in the Dreams for Change program experienced a positive change in her role as a provider for her household.

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Change In Decision Making

The data behind this metric seeks to evaluate whether access and control of economic resources further supports women’s autonomy and decision making ability for themselves and on behalf of those that they care for.

OUR IMPACT

100% of Proyecto Matria clients maintained or improved autonomy in a decision-making role within the family.

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Business Sustainability

The ability of women participants to sustain their businesses over time is a key element of long-term success.

OUR IMPACT

72% of businesses funded by microloans in the Via International program has long-term income making potential.

Women Impact Sustainability and Empowerment (WISE)

The Women Impact Sustainability and Empowerment (WISE) project is our data-driven assessment tool to evaluate how our funding of micro-loans, financial training and other social supports lead to sustained improvements in the women’s lives. WISE gives us the data that tells the concrete story of positive change. WISE incorporates metrics from four areas to measure women’s progress across WE-funded projects:

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Financial Literacy

This indicator measures the benefits of the educational components of our funding. When women increase their financial literacy to manage their own finances, to create and sustain a business, they acquired tools to provide better for themselves and for their families.

OUR IMPACT

80% of Proyecto Matria clients increase their ability to make informed financial decisions and created business plans.



Change In Provider Role

Measuring whether self-sufficiency and self-confidence in the ability to maintain one’s own finances had an impact on the way women operated within their own households as the provider.

OUR IMPACT

7 out of 8 participants in the Dreams for Change program experienced a positive change in her role as a provider for her household.

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Change In Decision Making

The data behind this metric seeks to evaluate whether access and control of economic resources further supports women’s autonomy and decision making ability for themselves and on behalf of those that they care for.