Why should my organization use the PPI?
Your organization may operate in a highly-impoverished area, but without objective poverty data on the households you reach, social performance management will rely on assumptions. Organizations that collect poverty data from all or a statistically significant sample of households they reach are able to:
- measure poverty outreach (i.e. the portion of customers, clients, or employees who live below the poverty line or are vulnerable to becoming poor),
- assess the performance of the intervention among the poor and poorest, and
- track poverty levels over time.
With these data, management staff can make informed strategic decisions and can provide stakeholders with objective evidence that the organization is reaching the poor and those vulnerable to poverty.
