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Comment by Marion ALLET on October 10, 2011 at 17:52

Dear all,

I am currently doing my PhD on the topic: "Microfinance and the Environmental Bottom Line: What Relevance?", and I am very pleased to share with you my first working paper, which proposes a new tool to measure the environmental performance of MFIs:

Measuring the environmental performance of microfinance - ALLET, 2011

I am not pretending to propose here a perfect methodology, but I am just hoping that this article can contribute to the debate around a triple bottom line in microfinance. I should be able to share more research papers with you in the coming months. Meanwhile, please do not hesitate to share your comments and reactions with me!

Best,

Marion

Comment by Getaneh on June 13, 2011 at 13:41

Hi all ... My name is Getaneh Gobezie, now with ACDI-VOCA, also working with Oxfam-Novib and IFAD on Gender & Rural-finance. ... I think our measurements are becomming complex...... Assuming that an MFI is actually working with the poorest, and women (hence possibly high on the 'social' or 'people' score), and also assuming that these very poor people can ensure food security from improved agricultural productivity and profitability, how can one possibly also gurantee that thier micro-projects have least negative impact on environment?? I understand that one need to do the best to guarantee TBL, but what incentive or enforsement mechanism can we assume that organizations (not just MFI) work under this framework???

Comment by sandhya suresh on June 13, 2011 at 12:18

Hi ! I am Sandhya Suresh from ESAF Microfinance and Investments Pvt Ltd) EMFIL based in India.I am glad to join the group to share some of our experience and to learn more from others.It will great if some of us could do a mutual visit to those institutions which has already put in place TBL in thier strategy.

Thanks

Sandhya

Comment by Joan Hall on June 9, 2011 at 21:24

Greetings, All,

 

Green Microfinance (www.greenmicrofinance.org) has been promoting the triple bottom line for many years now. Check out our website. We also have training materials. I look forward to participating and learning from others. Joan Hall

Comment by Sangeeta Naik on October 24, 2009 at 4:25

Hi, I would like to be part of this group to abe able to share and learn.

Comment by Laura Maciunaite on October 22, 2009 at 3:51

Hi Farhat and Ziad!

True, healthcare and education are very much included into the social dimension of TBL. To name few others in this dimension would be - striving for gender equality and women empowerment, reaching out to the most vulnerable groups such as landless, SC & ST (Scheduled Casts and Tribes), community mobilization into various purposeful groups and similar. More examples would be welcome!

Comment by Ziad M. AL-Habashneh on October 21, 2009 at 23:08

Hi Farhat
Triple Bottom Line Institutionalization in the MFI sector (People, Planet, Profit) represent the three sustainability pillars for any MFI so as to achieve its goals regarding poverty alleviation or unemployment, while education and health are of another criteria pertaining to the first pillar namely People…
Ziad Habashneh

Comment by Farhat Abbas Shah on October 21, 2009 at 22:31

Hi Laura,
Can we include Health, in social or environment line?or education as social line.
Farhat.

Comment by Laura Maciunaite on October 21, 2009 at 19:30

Hi to all new members and thanks for new comments!

First of all to Roshan, it's true that climate change issues are popping up all over the world and MFI sector is just a a very tinny one among the giant ones. However, TBL is indeed an initiative to bring environmental issues into the light among MFIs. I hope Nepalese MFIs will take it into consideration as well! However, I have to admit that integration of Environmental dimension is probably the most challenging one, and that's where we are looking most of support as well.

As Ian has put it very correctly there are too many tensions among the 3Ps (People, Planet, Profit) and frankly said, forget the 3, when even 2 (Profit vs People or even People vs Planet) are not getting along very well in practice. Yet, I have to say, that for my feeling 3Ps don't have to balance in an equilibrium and they most probably never will, but what matters is the attempt and the right intention of combining the 3 in the most practical way. E.g. if we can integrate bio-diesel, vermi-compost, press-mud and similar into farmers' everyday practices, it might affect not just their immediate surroundings but also their profits as well as MFI's fiscal returns in the positive way. Easier said, than done of course, but the essence is in making a start somewhere. And TBL is the beginning. If it works, we still have to see, and how it works is a matter of management commitment.

Finally, Navin, nice to see you here too! Your questions raised are our everyday reality: TBL streamlining is a long term plan just as we are experiencing it at BASIX at the moment :) If anybody has experience it that, don't hesitate to share!

Looking forward to hear more!

Comment by Navin on October 21, 2009 at 11:42

Hi I am Navin from BASIX, a liveihood promotion institution in India.

I would like to know about MFIs which have integrated TBL into the Business Planning and Monitoring Processes apart from reporting? It would be interesting to know the processes that were adopted by them to streamline TBL in Planning, Monitoring and Reporting Processes. What kinds of challenges existed and how were they overcome?

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