Community Impact Accountancy

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Comment by Rathindra ROY on March 11, 2009 at 5:21pm

I am interested in building in evaluative thinking into developmental efforts, embedding evaluation in real time... by the people who are acting and those being acted upon. I hope to learn from the group's experiences....

Comment by jalang'o jarateng on January 28, 2009 at 4:15pm

nice group i am thrilled to be a part of this group and all its members i believe we can make a change in this world so long as we can account for what we have what we consume and how we do it.

Comment by chris macrae on November 1, 2008 at 10:22pm

As a mathematician, I think "whole truth" community measurement is very important indeed. I am amazed at how many global NGOs use very standardised measures that look as if they have come out of the same cupboard as Wall Street's investment banks. Does anyone have a good story of how system-whole networking goals of community development often:
1 involve very specific contexts -eg before someone can do something effective conflicts in a community of a very local pattern often need sorting

THE BEAUTY OF CURVES
2 value multiplication around vital services usually spins an exponential not linear form- what this means if that eg improvement towards a sustainability goal may look very disappointing for several years but then everything in the community comes together and rapid progess is made

the risk of curves is that if an impatient investor - let alone a quarterly spreadsheeter or politcian who needs instant results - isnt expecting a curved response they may kill off a sustainability investment just before it really starts working

the opportunity of curves is something I have learnt a lot about from microentrepreneur approaches in bangladesh - almost everything they have succeeded at doing has taken time - then leapt into exponential success- this month Dr Muhammad Yunus is being celebrated in california for probably the biggest curve success story that ending poverty has ever led - they told him in 1996 that he must be mad to think that the poorest village women in the world needed mobiles; today not only is being the telephone girl the most prosperous village job but Bangladeshi and India partnerships are aiming to bank a billion customers through mobile phones- in this and other ways Dr Yunus is no longer to be celebrated only as banker for the poor but as internetworker for the poor - where 7 million female entrepreneurs now share innovation franchises across the 125000 village hubs (typicallly 60 women brainstorming groups) that Grameen Bank has been developing round over 3 decades

- village and knowhow infrastructores, like Rome, are not built in a day

much more context on this is over at http://futurecapitalism.ning.com/

Comment by VINCENT NDEDA on July 14, 2008 at 3:46pm

good group. lets help the needy world