Project 1:   Pink Passbooks: Testing “the Girl Effect” in Mongolia

(December 2011)

Short summary of Women’s World Banking project to extend savings accounts and financial education to adolescent girls in Mongolia.

Responsibilities:

  • P  Collaborate with Women’s World Banking staff to define objectives for the piece and agree as to editorial direction.
  • P  Read massive (100+ pages) endline assessment of Mongolia project and condense into concise, visually attractive, reader-friendly summary of key findings and recommendations.
  • P  Review and make selections from among available nonprofessional photography.

Project 2:   Communications strategy

(March 2012)

Comprehensive strategy to package and disseminate findings of Women’s World Banking’s consumer research unit, and to enhance WWB’s position as thought leaders in financial services for the global female economy.

Responsibilities:

  • P  Extensive discovery process, including review of 15 years’ worth of qualitative and quantitative research; interviews with internal stakeholders and industry key influencers; and communications audit of existing program.
  • P  Work with in-house team to build buy-in; demonstrate that communications strategy around consumer research would complement, rather than compete with, existing messaging around poverty alleviation.
  • P  Produce detailed strategic plan with short-term implementation plan.

Project 3:   Walking the Talk: Gender Analytics for Microfinance and the Case for Serving Women Well

(June 2012)

Position paper articulating Women’s World Banking’s commitment to ensuring that the microfinance industry understand and serve low-income women’s financial needs, and setting forth WWB’s strategies to realize that vision.

Responsibilities:

  • P  Intensive advance consultation with team to gain consensus on editorial direction and argumentation.
  • P  Review of 15+ years of in-house and third-party research into low-income women’s financial needs and behaviors.
  • P  Production of multiple drafts and consultations with all relevant stakeholders and reviewers; diplomatic negotiations to reconcile contradictory redirects among various reviewers.

Project 4:   Microfund for Women’s Caregiver Experience: Lessons from Jordan on Health Microinsurance

(October 2012)

Policy brief on Women’s World Banking’s work in Jordan to scale up health microinsurance, the first of its kind product in Jordan.

Responsibilities:

  • P  Review first draft produced by technical consultant; provide guidance for additional information needed from field staff.
  • P  Rewrite to improve readability, set into context of state of global practice in microinsurance, and conform to corporate-level WWB messaging.
  • P  Assimilate editorial comments from multiple reviewers to produce final draft.

Project 5:   One Size Does Not Fit All: Market Intelligence from Women’s World Banking

(December 2012)

Article for United Nations journal co-sponsored by Exxon Mobil corporation

Responsibilities:

  • P  Work with in-house corporate communications team to define messaging around WWB’s research-led approach to product design and delivery.
  • P  Review guidance from managing editorial team at UN to conform article to overall messaging of publication and UN gender program.
  • P  Produce 5-page article setting forth WWB’s deep experience with rigorous research to understand clients’ needs, the operational decisions shaped by that research, and the ultimate impact on clients’ lives.

Project 6:   Safe Places to Save: Some Findings from Women’s World Banking’s Work to Expand Women’s Access to Savings

(January 2013)

Research paper summarizing major WWB initiative around savings expansion in multiple geographies.

Responsibilities:

  • P  Review business plans, progress reports, and presentations by WWB corporate team and by implementing partners, including Banco WWB, ADOPEM, Kenya Women’s Financial Trust, and Kashf Microfinance Bank.
  • P  Extensive consultations with corporate communications team and subject matter experts to set editorial direction and messaging for savings paper.
  • P  Write 15-page paper describing key findings and next steps, providing context for understanding how WWB’s work on savings fits into larger industry trends.

Project 7:   Gender Performance Indicators: How Well Are We Serving Women?

(March 2013)

Research report / how-to manual providing comprehensive overview of WWB’s work to develop a set of more than 100 key performance indicators to measure gender performance in microfinance. Details the work that went into development of the indicators and provides practitioners with concrete tips on implementation.

Responsibilities:

  • P  Confer with corporate communications and subject-matter leads to reconcile differing visions for publication.
  • P  Produce detailed outline for both narrative treatment and suggested graphic presentations (call-out boxes, process flow diagrams, etc.)
  • P  Draft 30-page manual on tight deadline, incorporating multiple rounds of feedback from multiple stakeholders.