After three years working to accelerate 25 early-stage inclusive fintech startups in emerging markets, Caren coached the Catalyst Fund team to reflect on what they learned. Through a process of coaching they were able to identify successes and mistakes, and refined their approach to be the preferred accelerator partner to fintech companies. The report highlightsEvaluation Coaching: Catalyst Fund [Read More]
Business Development Services & Accelerator Evaluations
Caren is an evaluator for Argidius Foundation. In addition to the Argidius-ANDE Challenge funding, she has done deep-dive evaluations on Argidius grantees providing business development services in Latin America and Africa. Some summary evaluations can be found below: Access to Capital for Rural Enterprises (ACRE) Agora Partnerships Business Professionals Network (BPN)
Ethical Trade Advisory, Facilitation, and Research
Enabling Outcomes works with a high street retailer to improve the partnerships and monitoring and evaluation of their ethical trade projects portfolio. Work has included a deep-dive evaluation of a grantee that delivers training on life skills and worker rights to workers in the garment sector in India, research on grievance hotlines, partnership meeting facilitation,Ethical Trade Advisory, Facilitation, and Research [Read More]
Twin Trading East Africa Coffee Evaluation
Enabling Outcomes conducted the midterm evaluation of Twin’s Maanda Project (funded by Comic Relief). The project aims to serve seven East African coffee cooperatives across four countries–Rwanda, DRC, Uganda and Malawi–as a holistic project that encompasses quality, financial management, governance, certification, marketing and sustainable agriculture with gender as a cross-cutting theme. The evaluation included fieldTwin Trading East Africa Coffee Evaluation [Read More]
Argidius-ANDE Talent Challenge Evaluation
The Argidius Foundation and the Aspen Network of Development Entrepreneurs (ANDE) have launched a competition designed to support innovative solutions to the human capital constraints faced by small and growing businesses (SGBs) in emerging markets. Enabling Outcomes designed the evaluation criteria and evaluating the five projects from 2016-2019, including interviewing stakeholders. Enabling Outcomes made a recommendation to a selection committee to helpArgidius-ANDE Talent Challenge Evaluation [Read More]
