Six engagements. Every number traceable to the record, and every lesson one I would repeat.
Every case below is a named institution, a period of time, and a number I can stand behind. The four with a photograph open into the full story.
Lending, accounting and control systems built from nothing, with portfolio at risk held below 2%.
A capacity programme across 22 microfinance institutions and SACCOs, built on their own loan files.
National development policy translated into district level practice, in fourteen districts.
The national strategy and regulations that followed a sector in distress.
Governance designed around how mining communities actually organise.
A tool used by boards sixteen years later, and the ancestor of the Scorecard.
Additional engagements in Rwanda, Uganda and Tanzania with Enabel, Oikocredit, the Microfinance Support Centre, Mercy Corps, IOM, VSO Tanzania, SEPSPEL and UCCFS, including 250 village savings and loan associations profiled across five districts and 125 cooperatives strengthened. Details available on request.
Most of these engagements began with one question a board could not answer from its own records.