Social Performance Monitoring
The rationale to include social performance criteria in the monitoring and evaluation activities of the Fund stems directly from its mission. In this sense, the Fund with its innovative handling of social performance acts as a trendsetter - especially with regards to the level of transparency, the standards set through regular monitoring and the studies that are conducted. Social performance criteria are engrained into the Fund's operations in three different areas:
- selection process of partner lending institutions in view of social performance,
- regular monitoring of the partner lending institutions' development performance,
- annual in-depth evaluation of the development impact.
Read more about this trendsetting Social Performance Monitoring in the paper "Social Performance Monitoring in the European Fund for Southeast Europe", published in "European Dialogue" (Edition Number 1, June 2008, European Microfinance Platform), which may be downloaded as a PDF file here.
